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Monday Jon Gruden was to have his final press conference of the season. Just as he has had the day after every game this season. Then hours before that regularly scheduled press conference Bo Jackson Jersey , it was moved from the usual spot in the media room to the auditorium. This was to be more than his usual press conference.On the stage in the auditorium was the three Super Bowl trophies; brought out for special occaions — and the table with three microphones. One for Mark Davis, one for Jon Gruden and, in the middle, one for the man of the hour, new General Manager Mike Mayock.Mark Davis opened it up by officially announcing Mike Mayock as the team’s new General Manager. From there head coach Jon Gruden spoke of the hiring of Mayock.“I’d just like to say I’m very excited about adding Mike Mayock to the Oakland Raiders,” said Gruden. “Mike and I go back about 20 years from 1995 when I was with the Eagles. We’ve been friends and associates for a long time. “I know a lot of people in this business that love football, that study football, but I don’t really know anyone that loves it and studies it more than Mike Mayock. And for the last several years we’ve been meeting behind the scenes on players, talking about one day maybe working together. “Today’s a really exciting day for me personally, I think our players will be charged by this, I think the ex-players, the future players are really going to be excited about this acquisition as well. Welcome aboard, Mike, I’m really happy to have you here.”Then Mayock had the floor to make his opening statement.“Well, I’ll tell you what Womens Bo Jackson Jersey , I’ve spent most of the last 15 years behind a microphone and I got to be honest with you, I haven’t been this nervous or this excited in that entire timeframe,” said Mayock. “I think the last time I was this excited I got cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers the next day. But I’m really happy to be here. I appreciate Mr Davis. You have no idea, Mark, how much I appreciate being here and thank you for coming out and offering me this job. “And Jon, what Jon was alluding to — 1995 — I probably have had over 300 text messages which I haven’t had a chance to get back to anybody because we’ve been working all morning. But a couple of them are like Archie Manning, Archie Manning is going ‘you guys are a great fit’ and the more I was just kind of scrolling through, all these football guys are reaching out saying ‘you and Gruden are a great fit. You guys love ball, you have a passion for it, you’re going to make it work. So, I think to just kind of highlight what this is all about is that Jon and I have talked a lot of football in the last 20 years and I think what we’re seeing is the formal unification of something that’s gone on for a long time. “I can’t tell you how happy I am to be here, I’m happy to be a Raider, I’m starting to understand what that means ‘Once a Raider, always a Raider’ and I’ll tell you another thing is I’m not going to get into any other interviews I ever had except for one and that was about 10 or 12 years ago. I kind of flew out her clandestinely to meet Mr Al Davis and he took me into this building and he hit me for about 8 hours and he grilled me on everything as you know. I came out of that building that day with my head spinning. Nobody really knew for a couple of years that he and I had talked about a potential job with the Oakland Raiders that long ago. “I think the harmonic convergence of what’s happened today is kind of cool. And having said all that, I just got to tell you I’m jacked. I’m juiced Antonio Brown Raiders Jersey , I’m ready to go, and there’s nobody I’d rather go to war with than Jon Gruden and Mark Davis.”Follow @LeviDamien Raiders running back Isaiah Crowell tore his Achilles earlier this week and the team formally ended his season on Friday by placing him on injured reserve.In between those two developments, the Raiders re-signed veteran running back Doug Martin to join first-round pick Josh Jacobs, Jalen Richard, DeAndre Washington and Chris Warren as options in the backfield. Gruden talked up all of the backs, including the role Martin can play as Jacobs learns the ropes as a professional.“Doug will be able to come in here and be a great mentor to Jacobs,” Gruden said, via NBCSportsBayArea.com. “He knows the system. He has produced in the system. Doug has had some real highs and some real lows in this league. He’ll be a great resource to our young back, and he can still play. We’re happy to have Doug back and disappointed for Isaiah.”Gruden also referred to Martin as a three-down back, which, as Josh Dubow of the points out, is a bit curious given the fact that he only played 21 snaps on third down last season. Richard had 155 snaps in that role and the presence of all the backs in Oakland means there’s going to be some experimenting to do before making any calls about who is doing what in September.