How Chip Kelly Defined the Raiders' True Underlying Concerns

Not a Good Start for Brady as Minority Owner

For Brady, he had his voice heard, and some big decisions were made, and personnel were brought in because of him. It has all come crashing down for the Raiders this season. The Raiders have been a shell of themselves, and the improvement has not been there all season. The Silver and Black have also fired Chip Kelly after the offense has not been a factor for this all season.

“Chip Kelly let the cat out of the bag a long time ago [when he] said, ‘When I sat for an interview, the guy who got me on board was Tom Brady.’ He basically said that Tom represented the ownership group in the interview. He pointed at Tom Brady as being his guy that helped persuade him to end up taking this job with the Raiders,” said Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports.

“So not a great look for him to get fired and have been described as sort of a Brady inspired move, which when he ended up on Pete Carroll’s staff, people were like, ‘What’s the connection there? Wait a minute, what’s the connection between Pete and Chip Kelly?'” People weren’t making the natural connector to him becoming Pete’s offensive coordinator. And then after what Chip Kelly said, people were like, ‘The connector was Tom.’ He was just painted as a Tom guy.

“So what now has transpired? You have people through the league, particularly Patriots people, ex-Patriots people, who have proliferated throughout the NFL, who still have relationships with Tom, who still keep an eye on what’s going on with Tom, who are now asking, ‘Is everybody on the same page in that organization?’

"And one of them I was talking to today said, ‘Look, man, I think Pete’s on his page. I think Mark Davis is on his page. And I think Tom is on his page… and I don’t think any of those three pages are together."