Former Raiders general manager Mike Mayock had big plans for Las Vegas, especially after his team managed to earn a wild-card spot in the AFC playoffs in January. Despite losing 26–19 to the eventual Super Bowl runner-up Bengals—a game that Cincinnati had led 20-6 in the fourth quarter—Mayock felt that the Raiders had all of the right pieces in place to succeed for the 2022 season.
However, Mayock was fired a day after the Raiders’ wild-card loss, adding to the already tumultuous season of issues within the franchise. After three seasons and zero postseason wins under Mayock’s leadership, a key reason that led to his firing stems from his backing of then interim head coach Rich Bisaccia.
Paul Domowitch of the 33rd Team reported that Mayock told Raiders owner Mark Davis that Bisaccia “should have been retained as the team’s head coach” and explicitly stated that the day after the loss to the Bengals.
