Could Josh McDaniels be Raiders' latest one-and-done coach?

Could Josh McDaniels be Raiders' latest one-and-done coach?,If Josh McDaniels was not already on the hot seat in Las Vegas, he probably should be after Sunday.

Could Josh McDaniels be Raiders’ latest one-and-done coach?

If Josh McDaniels was not already on the hot seat in Las Vegas, he probably should be after Sunday.

The Raiders lost a 25-20 decision to the Indianapolis Colts, dropping them to 2-7 and in last place in the AFC West.

It was not only their third consecutive loss, but it was the third consecutive embarrassing loss and it is calling into question whether McDaniels will get another year on the team’s sideline.

Or if it will add him to the dubious list of one-and-done NFL coaches.

And if there is one team that is not afraid to make that call, it is the Raiders. Because they have done it repeatedly in recent history.

Since the start of the 1994 season there have only been 14 one-and-done head coaching tenures in the NFL, and three of them involved the Raiders: Joe Bugel in 1997, Art Shell in 2006, and Hue Jackson in 2011.

The 49ers, Dolphins, and Jaguars are the only other teams that have had even two.

While there is nothing official to indicate that a firing is imminent, there has been some suggestion that McDaniels should be on the hot seat given the team’s performance.

If the Raiders do decide to move on it would not be totally unjustified. They not only have a track of quick head coaching changes, but this season has gone about as poorly as possible.

It is one thing for a new coach to enter a rebuilding situation and need some time to get things turned around. Some struggles might even be expected.

But McDaniels was not inheriting a rebuilding team.

He was inheriting a playoff team with an established quarterback that also spent its offseason adding one of the best playmakers in football with the trade for wide receiver Davante Adams. Expectations were understandably high, and McDaniels was supposed to be the person to help get them over the top.

Instead, the bottom has completely fallen out and the team is further away from contention than anybody could have anticipated at the start of the year. And they only seem to be getting worse.

Over the past three weeks the Raiders were shut out by a 3-7 New Orleans Saints team, blew a 17-point lead to a 3-7 Jacksonville Jaguars team, and then on Sunday lost to a Colts team that was being led by a head coach (Jeff Saturday) that was coaching in his first game above the high school level. There is not a worse three-week stretch anywhere in the NFL this season.

It also continues what has been a less-than-inspiring career for McDaniels as an NFL head coach. He was only 11-17 in parts of two seasons with the Denver Broncos, getting fired just 12 games into his second season.

That Denver tenured started with a surprising 6-0 run at the start of his debut season. But since that initial six-game winning streak McDaniels is 7-24 in his past 31 games as a head coach.

At some point accumulating losses at that rate just becomes too much.

McDaniels was a very successful offensive coordinator in New England, but it just has not worked out for him as a head coach in two different stops.