The Raiders are absolutely terrible, but they are also by far and away the poorest NFL franchise, in owner personal wealth terms. As a throwback to the old AFL, the Davis family made their money AS team owners. He's probably the only non-billionaire at the league meetings. It doesn't excuse their terrible decision making, but it does provide context for why they are consistently stupid in almost every aspect of the team's management. Because Al Davis literally talked his way into the Raiders organizational structure, acted as coach, scout, gm, etc during their AFL years, and leveraged that as a salaried employee into a minority stake, and eventually ownership, I suspect in addition to lack of resources, his son and current owner, Mark Davis is simply not able to separate the Football Team from the Family Business in a way that even Jerruh would find confusing.