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There is no trophy for winning the offseason.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably not one most general managers would want anyway because it probably means there was a great deal of work to do in the first place.<\/p>\n

That was certainly the case for general manager John Spytek, who knew a dramatic overhaul was necessary after watching the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> go 3-14 in his first season on the job.<\/p>\n

He moved on from an aging coach in Pete Carroll after one year and replaced him with one of the hottest names on the market<\/a> in Klint Kubiak. Spytek also used the first pick in the NFL draft to take what he and the organization hopes is a generational-type talent in quarterback Fernando <\/a>Mendoza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He landed a highly-regarded haul in free agency<\/a> and even navigated one of the most bizarre scenarios in recent league history when the Baltimore Ravens canceled a proposed trade<\/a> of star defensive end Maxx Crosby for a pair of first-round picks.<\/p>\n

Several national pundits have declared the Raiders the most improved team since the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

It would be easy to hang a \u201cMission Accomplished\u201d banner on the third floor of the team facility in Henderson and enjoy a vacation next month between minicamp and the start of training camp.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not how Spytek operates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re building, but I don\u2019t think in the NFL that process ever stops,\u201d Spytek said in assessing where the team is after two drafts and a year of churning the roster. \u201cObviously, getting Fernando, who we need to help develop into a great, franchise-level quarterback, is a big add. Every franchise is looking for that. But I think we\u2019re all excited about the young talent in the building. Brock Bowers. Ashton Jeanty. We\u2019ve still got Maxx. We added some great linebackers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to me, if you think you\u2019ve reached the finish line or even that you\u2019re on your way, I think you\u2019re doing it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spytek has been doing plenty right lately, but his first year on the job was a difficult one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never want to go through that again, ever,\u201d he said of finishing tied for the worst record in the league and picking No. 1 overall. \u201cBut, I\u2019m grateful for the things that we learned along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spytek sat down recently with the Review-Journal in a rare down moment at the team facility to discuss in depth last season, his lessons learned and his thoughts and expectations going forward.<\/p>\n

Moving forward<\/h2>\n

Spytek could very easily distance himself from the 2025 season, even though he was the general manager who oversaw the disaster.<\/p>\n

Instead, he owns it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that would be a cop-out,\u201d Spytek said of any attempt to call this his first full offseason. \u201cI think last year it was drinking from the firehose, but that\u2019s the job. You try to learn and evaluate as fast and as well as you can. I think this is Year 2, and you have to be mindful of the things we did well and what we didn\u2019t do well last season. You have to have self-awareness and make some corrections off of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut our 3-14 record, we earned that last year. I think there\u2019s a lot of things that I have to do better and a lot of things the organization has to do better. Then, the players need to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure, but the obvious excuses are there even if he won\u2019t make them.<\/p>\n

He was hired at 44 years old and immediately paired with Carroll, who turned 74 last season, the oldest coach in league history.<\/p>\n

While Spytek was aware how much work had to be done on the roster and how long that process would take, Carroll didn\u2019t have that kind of time. He wanted to be competitive immediately and influenced some moves to help expedite that process after proclaiming to the world that he didn\u2019t know anything else but how to win at least 10 games every year.<\/p>\n

Spytek, a Wisconsin native who was a teammate of minority owner Tom Brady at Michigan, couldn\u2019t be blamed for throwing Carroll under the bus. Instead, he would rather search for the lessons in the failures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m more focused on where we\u2019re at now and where we\u2019re going,\u201d he said. \u201cI think to that point, I learned a lot about being a GM and all the things that get thrown at you and trying to solve problems every day that you can\u2019t predict.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spytek specifically cited the Christian Wilkins situation as just one example. He and Carroll believed they were taking over a team that was pairing Crosby with a star defensive tackle in Wilkins only to very quickly learn the injury he suffered in 2024 hadn\u2019t healed, a mess that was only compounded by reports of a bizarre locker room situation<\/a> that led to his release<\/a> and an extended grievance that still hasn\u2019t been settled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just wasn\u2019t our reality,\u201d he said of having a healthy Wilkins on the team. \u201cSo you just learn in those spaces to solve the problem the best you can. And even the great teams I\u2019ve been a part of, it never goes the way you think it\u2019s going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not much did last year, but Spytek is taking a fairly analytical approach to it all.<\/p>\n

He said it would have been a much more challenging year if he obsessed over everything that went wrong and all the losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s just not my psyche,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were more focused on being realistic with what we did right and then being self-critical about what we did wrong. If you don\u2019t do that, I think you miss opportunities to really grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny adversity in life, I think we all would agree it sucks going through it, but there\u2019s that\u2019s where the growth is and that\u2019s where if you can truly have an honest conversation with yourself, you can learn a lot from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I\u2019m all about 2026 and going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was helped out by completing his staff with a front office he now believes is well-equipped to make efficient and effective decisions through a collaborative process where dissent is welcome and discussion encouraged.<\/p>\n

Spytek was also able to have a much bigger role in the coaching hire and now has a staff in place with a shared vision of the future, even if he won\u2019t be the one to say that.<\/p>\n

It has all led to a successful offseason, beginning with the free-agency class.<\/p>\n

Targets acquired<\/h2>\n

While the media is often wrong about what teams plan to do in the offseason, the Raiders priorities were predicted by just about everyone.<\/p>\n

Mendoza was going to be the top pick in the draft from the moment he went soaring into the end zone in the national championship game<\/a> on the now-iconic quarterback keeper. Once the Raiders hired Kubiak, star center Tyler Linderbaum was the obvious choice as a prototypical style fit<\/a> for the system on a team desperate for help up front.<\/p>\n

Spytek pulled off both moves.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t the actual acquisitions that should have Raiders fans putting their trust in his ability to run the team going forward. It was how it all happened.<\/p>\n

Spytek\u2019s personnel department communicated with Kubiak\u2019s coaching staff and confirmed that Linderbaum was the ideal fit as a player, leader and human.<\/p>\n

They relied on his film, first and foremost, but also went back to their scouting of him when evaluating the 2022 draft class. Then they talked to players, coaches and personnel who had been around him throughout his career and the evaluation started to come into focus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a big belief that it starts up front and in talking to Klint and getting to know his staff, the true value of a high-end center in this offense,\u201d Spytek said. \u201cIt was high character, work ethic, highly-competitive. Then the film is what it is, which we thought was very good, obviously. It was a unique opportunity because that guy doesn\u2019t always become available at the end of his rookie contract, at least for another year, and we just tried to evaluate what he would do for the Raiders. And obviously we were convicted in it. So I think it\u2019s fair to say he was the No. 1 target in free agency for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think the (record-setting) contract speaks that in volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a similar process with Mendoza.<\/p>\n

Spytek said the organization made sure not to start the evaluation with the end in mind. The Raiders wanted to be thorough and not miss anything.<\/p>\n

He believes they were able to do that even though the entire world believed it was a slam dunk from the beginning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would never classify it as easy. I think it was a great, thorough, well thought-out process,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd sure, it ended in the spot where everybody expected it to end. But it\u2019s because of who he is as a person and as a competitor and as a football lover that gave us a convicted sense of calm as we went through it. That made it so the decision we made at the end, we were able to make with a lot of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

While those were the most high-profile moves of the offseason, it\u2019s the less glitzy moves that will really determine whether the Raiders are finally building a winning foundation.<\/p>\n

But Spytek believes in the people in the building and the process they have in place. That was evident when the moment actually came to start free agency with Linderbaum as the first of many signings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the bell drops and you\u2019re set to make Tyler Linderbaum the highest-paid interior offensive lineman in NFL history, I think it was a pretty calm room where we were able to say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re convicted in this.\u2019 And whatever people on the outside might think or say or do about it, it\u2019s not really a factor to us. We believe in the scouting process and the plan we put in place, and now is not the time to be hesitant,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think we were. And then it just kind of continued from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even after they had invested in all those free agents and then found out they were getting Crosby and his approximately $30 million salary back on the books. Spytek said they were able to look at the deals they had in place and figure out how best to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in the NFL you almost expect the unexpected,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s very little I think that would surprise or shock me at this point in my career.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m proud of our group for having the mindset of, \u2018OK, we\u2019ll just deal with it as it comes and I think we\u2019re very grateful to the ownership group because that\u2019s a massive contract to have as part of it. It\u2019s $30 million this year. But there was never a conversation about, \u2018Well then cut this guy or renege on this deal,\u2019 that\u2019s just not the way that we\u2019re going to operate. So to the outside world it might seem like a tall tale, but honestly, I feel like if you ask anybody on the third floor or the coaching staff or the personnel side, like, we just kind of took it in stride. Did it change a little of what we did after that? Well, we had to be a little bit more mindful of our cap and cash situation with that, so maybe on Day 2 and 3, it prohibited some things. But the bulk of our work was already done.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was actually a microcosm for how all of free agency went for the Raiders, who were not only armed with cap space but also the resources from ownership to invest so heavily.<\/p>\n

While free agency is never going to go exactly as planned with some targets drawing better offers elsewhere or simply opting to stay with their previous team, Spytek\u2019s self-assessment of that period was that the organization had pretty accurate evaluations on the available players and what their values would be on the market.<\/p>\n

He also learned something that will be valuable in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cool thing too was when we started to feel that people really wanted to come here,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s always a cool thing, where if you\u2019re an organization, people are calling you too and there\u2019s a synergy there with people that also have a chance to go anywhere they want, but they\u2019re interested in the opportunity that we\u2019re presenting them. And obviously the contract matters a lot. But some of those guys, I\u2019m pretty confident, had other really good opportunities elsewhere for good contracts. And they chose to come here.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t plan for that, but we did kind of realize it in real time, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have they done enough?<\/h2>\n

Despite all the improvements, the Raiders are still projected by sportsbooks to be one of the worst teams in the league. While the foundation appears a solid one from which to build a future contender, there is also some pressure to start seeing results on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all hyper-competitive people and nothing would make me happier than to win 17 games next year,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, we\u2019re more focused on building it the right way. So when we do have the success, when we show the progress this year and the results come with it on the field, that we can keep it there too. That\u2019s the ultimate challenge. But we\u2019re going to go try to win as many games as we can this year, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, the Raiders didn\u2019t just add talent in free agency. They added mostly younger players in their mid-20s fresh off rookie deals who are still coming into their prime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat gives us a chance to build that foundation the right way this year to be competitive and have those guys be a part of it going forward,\u201d he said. \u201cThen just continue to add.\u201d<\/p>\n

This roster should at least be competitive, which would be a massive improvement.<\/p>\n

Spytek said that\u2019s the part that\u2019s difficult to judge, especially when the players are only going through drills in shorts and baseball hats this time of year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m confident in the competitor and the person that we\u2019ve added through free agency and the draft,\u201d he said. \u201cThey still have got to go do it. We\u2019ve got a big training camp in front of us and we\u2019re learning a totally new offensive, defensive and special teams scheme. So that\u2019s going to be a big part of it, too. But I\u2019m encouraged with the work ethic. The attendance so far in our offseason program has been outstanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not into the prediction market. It\u2019s never been what I think I\u2019m the best at. But I\u2019m excited about the guys here and the way they work and the way they\u2019re working together.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n

If there is no award for winning the draft or free agency, there are even less accolades for winning the summer in the NFL.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the only part of the calendar that even resembles a down period in any way. After minicamp early next month, the players will be out of the building for nearly six weeks until training camp starts in late July.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect to see Spytek on the beach for too long.<\/p>\n

He knows the opportunities to improve the roster always exist. There are still free agents available and even more players could hit the market after June 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlus, you never know if there\u2019s trade offers that come your way,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then the prep for the 2027 draft will start here in a couple weeks. The guys upstairs are already watching those guys. Then we\u2019ll evaluate our guys on the team over the next couple of weeks as best we can in shorts and helmets.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day I come in here, I just think about, \u2018How can we make the Raiders better?\u2019 You never know what\u2019s going to come up. Some days you walk in and you can\u2019t anticipate what\u2019s going to happen, but we\u2019ll take it as it comes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact Adam Hill at ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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