{"id":22573,"date":"2022-07-22T19:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-patriot-way-wont-follow-josh-mcdaniels-to-the-raiders-hes-learned-to-make-his-own\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:51:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:51:49","slug":"the-patriot-way-wont-follow-josh-mcdaniels-to-the-raiders-hes-learned-to-make-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-patriot-way-wont-follow-josh-mcdaniels-to-the-raiders-hes-learned-to-make-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Patriot Way’ won’t follow Josh McDaniels to the Raiders. He’s learned to make his own"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HENDERSON, Nev. \u2014 It wasn’t the sharpest or most poignant metaphor to offer Josh McDaniels about the lessons he’s learned over the years, but it struck a chord with him anyway.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas Raiders coach had taken refugee in some shade on Thursday, ducking out of the 106-degree heat following his team’s first full-squad training camp practice. As he began to explain the importance of learning how to subtract from his coaching plate over the course of his career, a visitor floated a clunky, half-remembered proverb.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember someone once saying that perfecting your painting is learning to understand what shouldn’t be in it,\u201d the visitor said.<\/p>\n

McDaniels’ eyes lit up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s exactly \u2014 that’s such a great way to say it,\u201d McDaniels said.<\/p>\n

With his second head coaching stint underway (or third, if you count the McDaniels-scuttled Indianapolis Colts job), he has zero illusions about what needed to be removed from his canvass. Or more specifically, since his late-season firing from the Denver Broncos in 2010 after coaching the team less than two seasons. He was 34 years old when that happened. He’s 46 now. And in his mind, a lot has changed since.<\/p>\n

What does he know now that he didn’t know then? that he doesn’t want to be a general manager; he does n’t expect everyone on his staff to recreate the New England Patriots experience; he wants to focus on his own design rather than tracing the one created by Bill Belichick; and he would rather be good at a few jobs in his building than micromanaging himself into an abyss.<\/p>\n

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In short, he’s not spending this second chance trying to fit into the identity of a head coach he was never comfortable replicating in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s 12 years since I left [head coaching] the first time, and sometimes you hear people say that they took some time and they tried to figure things out,\u201d McDaniels said. \u201cTo each person, that means different things. For me, what I was trying to get done was, let me really stop and self-reflect on, what did I do that was clearly wrong? It’s humbling. You have to really drop your ego and say to yourself, ‘Man, I stunk at that. That was a really bad decision.’ Or, ‘I didn’t treat that person the way that I wanted to treat them all the time.’\u201d<\/p>\n