The firings of Josh McDaniels, GM Dave Ziegler and some of the coaching staff will cost the Raiders approximately $85 million, league sources told ESPN.
Some of those costs will be defrayed by offset and mitigation, but the firings were, as one source described to ESPN,"an expensive move nonetheless."
"Unfortunately, I had great hopes for Josh and Dave," Davis told ESPN's Paul Gutierrez on Wednesday."It just seemed we were going in the wrong direction. So, with the trade deadline, I just felt it was time to make a change, time to make a move." Pierce will become the 12th different person to coach a game for the Raiders over the past 20 season, including interims -- the most of any NFL franchise over that span. Pierce will be the eighth different coach, interim or regular, for the Raiders since Davis took over control of the team after the death of his father, Al Davis, is October 2011. Pierce follows McDaniels, Rich Bisaccia, Jon Gruden, Jack Del Rio, Tony Sparano, Dennis Allen and Hue Jackson.
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