Mark Davis officially responded to the claims regarding him creating “a hostile work environment,” first alleged by former team president Dan Ventrelle back in May.
Ventrelle said once he complained about Davis and the work environment, he was fired.
On the same day the Raiders announced their new team president, Davis spoke with the Las Vegas Review-Journal about the team’s internal investigation surrounding the allegations made against him.
“The culture of this organization for me is so important,” Davis said. “Since the articles that came out, not only in the New York Times, but the [Review-Journal]… I take those very seriously. So we did an investigation into all those things and we listened to the people who work in the organization and I believe we started to make those changes that are necessary to get the culture back to where we feel we can all be positive.”
Back in February, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that teams could not investigate themselves when responding to the ongoing Commanders investigation, but it could relate to the Raiders’ situation now as well.
Mark Davis said that the people now matter more than the title they hold.
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“We were beginning to be more corporate in the organization where a title was more important than the person that was wearing the title,” Davis said. “It got to the point where people could be replaceable. ‘We can get [a senior vice president] for this anywhere.’ That’s never been what the Raiders organization has been about. It’s always been about the people first and family… We never really got to start the Las Vegas Raiders with a culture that had momentum.”
Only time wil tell if changes actually happen within the organization.
