Klint Kubiak - Officially Head Coach

[JRaider17]

Figured it is best to start a new official thread around Kubiak being our HC as the other one was built up so much around the search. His introduction presser is at 11 PST today.

[KillerRaider30]

Kubiak is very impressing, thanks for sharing.

[GoodTimeCharlie]

The Las Vegas Raiders are moving full speed ahead under new head coach Klint Kubiak.

Kubiak
"That is really been something that I have been spending a lot of time on lately, going back through last year's season, watching individual players' tape. Even digging into the free agents, and all the while, now talking to the draft picks and meeting them," Kubiak said.

"Really using my days to watch the Raiders tape, and my nights to do the draft right now."

Spytek
“Humility, a great passion to play the game of football. It's such a hard game. Your competitive spirit has to run really high. You've got to be willing to play through a bunch of tough circumstances,” Spytek said at the NFL Combine," Spytek said.

“And to me, it always goes back to the love of the game. The guys that truly love the game of football, they love to practice, they love to prepare, they love to watch film, they love to play hurt. So, I mean those things - I'm kind of uncompromising on those things."

https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las ... ed-combine

[KillerRaider30]

[chucker]

I love this concept. It seems like Mike Mcdonald follows this process and hopefully Kubiak does as well.

[GoodTimeCharlie]

"I think in a perfect world, he’s watching a mature adult go and run an offense and run the team," Kubiak said about his potential handling of a rookie quarterback, per Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk. "But, the situation is, you might have that player, you might not have that veteran to show him the way. So he might come in and have to play immediately. But you’d rather him learn, learn before he gets in the game. You don’t always get to pick. It doesn’t work out the exact way you want it to. But at the end of the day, you want to make sure you’re bringing in an individual, drafting a guy that’s mature enough to handle some adversity — whether it’s him starting the first game or him starting the first game Year 2."

"Sometimes they have to play from Day 1," Kubiak added about rookie quarterbacks. "It’s our job as a coach to get them ready to go. I think it does help the player, though, if they can sit behind a mature adult and watch how they run the show."


Klint Kubiak walked into the NFL annual meeting in Phoenix on Tuesday morning and sounded like a coach who knows exactly what Raiders fans are asking for.

Win, and build it to last.

Speaking with reporters, the first-year Raiders head coach hit the pressure points Raider Nation has lived for years: quarterback development, the No. 1 pick, Maxx Crosby’s importance and why Las Vegas made a big move at center with Tyler Linderbaum.

Why Tyler Linderbaum is the key to Kubiak’s offense

Kubiak did not dance around why the center spot matters so much in what he wants to run. He framed it as the heartbeat of the operation.

“He touches the ball on every play, makes the line calls, he calls protections,” Kubiak said. “He’s the leader of the whole operation.”

Kubiak called Linderbaum “physically nasty” and said he finishes “through the echo of the whistle.” He also pointed to the motor that jumps off the tape, including the plays where Linderbaum runs downfield to throw blocks.

“That’s just who he is in his DNA,” Kubiak said. “He’s going to be a robot that we want all players to emulate.”

Then Kubiak made the bigger point. The Raiders are done collecting names. He wants proven winners.

“We’re trying to bring winners to the Raiders so that we can be on that level and go beat playoff teams,” he said.

Maxx Crosby is the standard, and Kubiak said it out loud
Kubiak did not hedge when asked about Crosby’s role after a chaotic stretch that briefly made it look like the star defensive end could be headed elsewhere.

“I just saw we got a lot better really fast,” Kubiak said. “Maxx is the best player on our defense. He’s going to be a leader on our team.”

Kubiak said he texted Crosby once things settled because he assumed Crosby had plenty of calls coming in. What stood out most to him was how fast Crosby snapped back into routine.

“He’s back in our building the next day doing his rehab like nothing ever happened,” Kubiak said. “He’s one of the first guys there every day.”

Rookie quarterback plan: ideal vs reality
With the No. 1 pick hovering over every Raiders conversation, Kubiak leaned into a common-sense approach that still leaves room for the league’s reality.

In an ideal world, he said, a young quarterback gets to learn behind a veteran.

“In a perfect world, then he’s watching a mature adult go and run an offense and run the team,” Kubiak said.

However, Kubiak also acknowledged that the NFL does not always give you the ideal timeline. Sometimes the rookie plays right away, whether anyone loves it or not.

“At the end of the day, you want to make sure that you’re bringing in an individual, a drafted guy, that is mature enough to handle some adversity,” he said.

When pressed later on whether he would prefer a rookie to sit, Kubiak kept it consistent.

“Ideally, you’d like them to not start from Day 1,” he said. “Sometimes they have to play whether you want it or not, and it’s our job as coaches to get them ready to go.”

The No. 1 pick work: tape first, then board
Kubiak described the draft as a daily collaboration with general manager John Spytek and the scouting staff. He said the bulk of the work still looks like what fans imagine, hours of tape, then hard conversations.

“We’re really spending a lot of time by ourselves watching tape,” Kubiak said. “Then we come together later in the day and talk about what we see, starting to put our board together.”

Kubiak also said pro days still matter, even when the film work is already deep. For quarterbacks, he said he wants to see how a player throws live, how he interacts with teammates and how he carries himself when the spotlight tightens.

A surprise from the current roster: Tre Tucker
Kubiak has spent the early months digging into the Raiders’ roster. When asked what stood out, he did not name a star.

He named Tre Tucker.

“One guy that sticks out is watching Tre Tucker play football,” Kubiak said. He praised Tucker’s play style and called him a strong teammate. Kubiak also pointed to the offseason workout group already in place, calling it a sign that parts of the culture are already in the building.

Brady, Dennison, and building the staff around the job
Kubiak said his relationship with Tom Brady continues to grow. He described steady communication and said he wants the feedback honest, not polite.

“He is extremely supportive, giving great advice,” Kubiak said. “I’d rather it be that way than not.”

Kubiak also praised offensive line coach Rick Dennison, calling him one of the best teachers of the outside zone scheme. He credited Dennison’s experience and said he has learned from him for years.

[GoodTimeCharlie]

Raiders HC Klint Kubiak reveals how the dynamic should be with an issue Pete Carroll may have had last season

It’s been suggested that former head coach Pete Carroll may have exerted too much influence on the Las Vegas Raiders’ roster last season. Klint Kubiak and John Spytek seem to have it figured out.



https://atozsports.com/nfl/las-vegas-ra ... hn-spytek/

[Sold My Soul]

"I've always had great respect for Gary (Kubiak), and I think Klint comes from those same bloodlines in terms of dedication, passion, attention to detail. Great communicator. I think sees the game through the eyes of the quarterback. So, I'm excited for him," Gannon said. "You talk about the qualities and intangibles it takes at that position, I think he has a lot of them. I think, most importantly, he has built a coaching staff that has some familiarity with him. ... This is a coaching staff that's going to grind, and that, to me, has to happen. This guy is the real deal. I mean, he's got a little Jon Gruden in him when you talk about coming early and staying late. I'm excited for Klint Kubiak and this coaching staff."

[GoodTimeCharlie]

"I've always had great respect for Gary (Kubiak), and I think Klint comes from those same bloodlines in terms of dedication, passion, attention to detail. Great communicator. I think sees the game through the eyes of the quarterback. So, I'm excited for him," Gannon said. "You talk about the qualities and intangibles it takes at that position, I think he has a lot of them. I think, most importantly, he has built a coaching staff that has some familiarity with him. ... This is a coaching staff that's going to grind, and that, to me, has to happen. This guy is the real deal. I mean, he's got a little Jon Gruden in him when you talk about coming early and staying late. I'm excited for Klint Kubiak and this coaching staff."

If that’s all he’s got in common with him we’ll be alright.

[chucker]

If that’s all he’s got in common with him we’ll be alright.

I remain a pretty big fan of Gruden 1.0.

Gruden 2.0...... no thanks, but that's not the guy that Gannon worked with either.

[GoodTimeCharlie]

I remain a pretty big fan of Gruden 1.0.

Gruden 2.0...... no thanks, but that's not the guy that Gannon worked with either.

I was too, but it ended once he became a Buc, and it became something much darker when he cheerleaded Dungy’s Bucs to beating the holy hell out of my football team in the Super Bowl and spawned a franchise shitstorm that has lasted until (I think) this off season.

It’s not Gruden’s fault he left, that was Big Al, and a Davis has been our downfall since. Big Al started this horror show kickin’ Gruden 1.0 out, and Doofus did his best to one-up him bringin’ in Gruden 2.0.

Things are looking up though, Doofus has backed off of football operations and Kubiak works with his GM rather than thinks he’s one. Kubiak’s also not a buffoon. That helps a lot.

[Jeevo]

I remain a pretty big fan of Gruden 1.0.

Gruden 2.0...... no thanks, but that's not the guy that Gannon worked with either.

I still think he had us heading in the right direction. He bungled the myriad of first round picks so badly though that any positive(s) have been complete obliterated.

[raider_kin]

I still think he had us heading in the right direction. He bungled the myriad of first round picks so badly though that any positive(s) have been complete obliterated.

Took him 4 years to get there tho, rebuilds should be done in 2 or 3 years. That's one of the ramifications of bad drafting.

[DanKD]

Took him 4 years to get there tho, rebuilds should be done in 2 or 3 years. That's one of the ramifications of bad drafting.

With the lack of talent on the roster abd blown picks Gruden 2.0 was headed back in the toilet. He was actually still a solid coach but his ego and F- level roster building doomed him to fail.

[Xramfan]

I don’t mind any comparison to Gruden as long as it doesn’t involve play calling duties, scouting ability and player personnel decisions. Other than that I love the comparison.

[Deejgoettel]

Kubiak’s phrase…”Ride for the brand “ I like it.