Owner on McDaniels: Rome wasn't built in a day

HENDERSON, Nev. -- Shortly aft Josh McDaniels shared his imaginativeness of the Las Vegas Raiders' aboriginal connected Monday, a time aft a stunning 25-20 loss to the Indianapolis Colts that dropped his squad to 2-7, proprietor Mark Davis told ESPN that helium volition beryllium diligent with his first-year caput manager and the programme helium is building.

"People successful today's satellite privation instant gratification. The guy's coached 9 games. We're 2-7, not the results we're looking for but astatine the aforesaid clip we've mislaid six one-score games with the shot and a accidental to triumph astatine the end," Davis said.

Asked astir giving a ballot of assurance to McDaniels, who was hired successful January, Davis said that happened erstwhile helium signed him to a deal.

"I gave him my ballot of assurance erstwhile I signed him to a declaration to beryllium manager of the Raiders. That's erstwhile I gave it to him," helium told ESPN.

Davis added: "Rome was not built successful a day."

Earlier Monday, McDaniels said helium volition enactment the people amid rumors astir his occupation security.

"We are building," McDaniels said successful his play Monday media conference. "I person ne'er utilized the connection 'rebuilding' oregon thing similar that. It's the National Football League; there's not 5 years to bash that.

"There's a process that we're trying to spell through. Certainly, slower and much achy than anybody wants it to be."

And portion McDaniels said helium had not been reassured of his presumption by Davis successful "some large clandestine meeting" successful caller weeks, McDaniels said helium volition proceed to effort to physique a instauration for the future.

"I'm going to power what I tin power and bash the champion I tin astatine my job, and portion of that is continuing to deliberation astir the aboriginal and adjacent twelvemonth and what goes connected beyond the adjacent fewer months here," McDaniels said.

"If idiosyncratic tells maine that my clip is done, past my clip is done."

Expectations were precocious for Las Vegas aft its improbable tally to a 10-7 decorativeness and the playoffs past play nether interim manager Rich Bisaccia and wide manager Mike Mayock, aft which Davis chose to bring successful McDaniels and Dave Ziegler, arsenic GM, from the New England Patriots.

But the Raiders got disconnected to a 0-3 start. And aft winning 2 of three, they person mislaid their past 3 games successful dispiriting fashion, getting unopen retired by the New Orleans Saints and erstwhile manager Dennis Allen, blowing a 17-0 pb (their 3rd specified decision of the season) astatine the Jacksonville Jaguars, and past the nonaccomplishment Sunday to the Colts. Indianapolis had a manager who had ne'er coached supra the precocious schoolhouse level successful Jeff Saturday, an violative coordinator who had ne'er called plays successful the NFL earlier successful Parks Frazier and a 37-year-old backmost who had been benched earlier this play successful Matt Ryan.

"We're not trying to bash thing different than triumph each game, and that's what we volition proceed to do," McDaniels said. "I deliberation the world is, I bash recognize the short-term past of this place. I was educated connected it; they talked to maine astir it erstwhile I came present -- trying to get thing unneurotic that tin past and prolong and triumph and triumph and triumph and triumph and win. We're not doing capable of it now, and we recognize that. But astatine the aforesaid time, that was the imaginativeness for us, to effort to fig retired what is going to beryllium portion of the future, what isn't. And however we proceed going guardant is going to interaction that.

"When you spell done change, there's immoderate things that you're going to spot initially, and there's immoderate things that you're going to spot implicit time. When you person capable accidental to marque those evaluations and effort to get it close eventually, that's the accidental that you're hoping for."

McDaniels said the extremity is to "have a civilization and the benignant of radical connected the squad that proceed to effort to uphold that twelvemonth aft twelvemonth aft year" successful Las Vegas.

"I recognize the short-term frustration. I get it. I truly do."

McDaniels is 13-24 arsenic an NFL caput manager aft antecedently going 11-17 with the Denver Broncos earlier being fired during his 2nd play successful 2010. He started his coaching vocation by going 6-0 with the Broncos but is conscionable 7-24 since.

Also Monday, the Raiders made a determination to assistance their defense, claiming 2019 first-round prime Jerry Tillery disconnected waivers from the Los Angeles Chargers. Tillery, a antiaircraft tackle who was waived by the Chargers past week, has 10.5 sacks and 3 forced fumbles successful 54 vocation games.

The No. 28 wide prime successful 2019, the Chargers declined implicit the offseason to prime up the fifth-year enactment connected Tillery's rookie contract. He appeared this play successful 7 games but did not start. He recorded a sack and forced fumble.