Welcome to Ceiling/Floor, where we dissect trades, signings, firings and hirings in order to determine the best case and worst case scenarios. Today, the Cleveland Browns hire Todd Monken as their new head coach.
Klint Kubiak tells me that he’s gonna enjoy tonight and enjoy winning a Super Bowl and tomorrow a new chapter starts as the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
— Dianna Russini (@diannarussini.bsky.social) February 8, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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The pendulum’s swung in Las Vegas, switching from Rip Van Winkle to hiring a 38-year-old first-time head coach.
The Raiders will improve just off the strength of the day-to-day operations no longer in the hands of an octogenarian, surrounded by his talentless sons, all stealing from Brady’s pockets, Alix Earle-ing it.
Klint Kubiak just won a Super Bowl. Seahawks the third-best scoring offense in the NFL.
This is the exact hire you need when expected to draft a QB with the no. 1 overall pick. Fernando Mendoza, in particular, seems like an adult who understands the game, ready to absorb Kubiak’s system as if it were his own ideas.
Kubiak coached Sam Darnold through a mistake-free Super Bowl run. Last year, Geno Smith spent the 2025 season handing out interceptions like Tiger Woods handing out his motel room number to midwestern Denny’s waitresses—Kubiak appears to value possession, improving the Raiders simply by punting on 4th instead of Geno Smith-ing on 2nd.
Ashton Jeanty and Brock Bowers in tow, Fernando Mendoza incoming—the Raiders are an offseason of devouring offensive line talent away from weekly competitive football.
All they need from Klint Kubiak is a modern offense with some innovation here and there—a bag of tricks to bust out—make the Las Vegas Raiders must-see TV again.
Vegas needs this.
Tourism declines as young men send coins to OnlyFans models instead of traveling to Vegas to get a handjob from an older woman with cartoonishly large breasts.
Klint can transform the Raiders into cartoonishly large breasts.
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I can mention the Seahawks offense ranking 16th in 3rd down conversions and 21st in the red zone—no one should’ve been surprised Jason Myers set the Super Bowl field goal record. Myers led the NFL in field goal attempts—Seattle’s offense crossing midfield before meekly jogging to the sidelines for the kicking unit—but something far, far worse may be coming to Vegas.
Earlier today, I saw a story I scrolled past without acknowledging but the Las Vegas Raiders need a QB and Derek Carr is open to returning to the NFL.
His contract rights belong to the Saints, so Vegas would need to pull off a trade—but no doubt in my mind, Carr is making his heroic return to the Raiders—reuniting with his former OC.
The pair operated the best offense in the NFL (for the first two weeks of the 2024 season before opposing defenses caught up).
But we shall never forget when Kubes and Carr put up 47 on the Panthers, then 44 on the Cowboys. (They finished that season with 5 wins and Carr retired, dove for a first down, snapped every bone is his body, became a family man.)
Anyway, I say all this to say, if you think this last season with Geno Smith leading the NFL in interceptions, granting the Raiders the no. 1 pick in this year’s draft, was rock bottom—wait until Derek Carr puts the black and silver back on, folds underneath the inescapable reality of his weak ass arm and fear of physical contact.
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