[...]The bottom 10 vs. Jets – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

[...]The bottom 10 vs. Jets – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

[...]The bottom 10 vs. Jets – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

[...]The bottom 10 vs. Jets – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

The person who needs to go away who has making stupid decisions last six years is the freakin OWNER/MEDDLING OWNER/GM/PERSONNEL MAN/DRAFT DAY DECISION MAKER/FOOTBALL OPERATIONS/HEAD OF SCOUTING/WANNABE COACH/WANNABE DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR/DICTATOR/WANNABE EMPEROR FROM STAR WARS…..

The stubborn old senile delusional man himself Al Davis!!!

He needs to give up on making all the day to day football decisions of this organization…..one and for all!! Or this team will NEVER get better! NEVER!

The last move the old man should make this year is trading for Michael Vick or trading for Kevin Kolb! They would be cheaper and better than any other QB we have now. Then at the end of the season hire Holmgren as the GM/PERSONNEL MAN.

Then Holmgren should hire Bruce Allen as the capologist and then Holmgren should hire Jon Gruden as coach or Cowher and let them do their thing and exercise all the losing demons this franchise has all over them! Gruden or Cowher would probably work wonders with Vick or Kolb as their QB.

Thats the only way things will turn around for the Raiders franchise…..PERIOD….END OF STORY!!

Realize it morons!

Trade for Kolb, hire Fassell (best we can hope for), draft o-line and LBs, sign the best NT on the market, get DHB a hand transplant.

^^^^^^^First things first…..Al Davis needs to take a back seat and hire people like Holmgren, Bruce Allen, Cowher, Parcells, Gruden to turn this ship around!

Trade for Vick or Kolb to be the QB next year!

It won’t happen though….because Al Davis doesn’t listen to the fans or care what they think.

Do you know how many fans called the Raiders headquarters and office in Alameda and demanded Jon Gruden be hired! Trust me…the phones were ringing off the freakin hook over there and did Al Davis listen??

Probably not….because he doesn’t care about the Raider Nation of fans!

Yes his work ethic seems to suck. Yes he has had a brutal season. Yes it bothers me that he hasn’t accepted any blame for the team’s problems in his comments to the media.

That being said since he’s been here he hasn’t really had the opportunity to be successful. No QB in the league that doesn’t have natural scrambling ability would be able to be successful on this team right now. Jamarcus is under pressure virtually ever snap. He’s throwing to basically 3 rookie wr’s as starters right now who are all still learning how to play in the nfl.

The combination of the solid running game and wr play that was present at the end of last season (Schilens/Higgins) is gone. The O-Line is a joke, especially with Gallery not in there.

Yesterday I saw 2 QB’s have horrific games who are considered “elite” players in the league.

Eli Manning and Matt Ryan, who going into yesterday were sacked less than 5 times combined I believe turned the ball over 5 times and completed less than 50% of their passes. They both were under constant pressure and didn’t get much production from there running game. This is the exact set of circumstances that JaMarcus has had his entire career.

I am not sold on JaMarcus in a good or bad way. However, I can’t judge him based on this team right now. When he developed chemistry with wr’s, had a solid running game and decent O-Line play (last 6 games of last season) he completed about 65% of his passes and threw 6 TD’s against 2 or 2 INT’s I believe.

I will not judge him as a player entirely until he is in a position to be successful.

Al is his own worst enemy and we all know how he likes to draft. He wants to hit the home-run every time, instead of hitting a single the other way. Evidence of this can be seen with Nnam, Schilens, Miller…

This drafting style comes with its risks obviously because talent alone doesn’t win in the NFL.

What is happening to the Raiders this year shouldn’t surprise anyone. They didn’t throw a tonne of money at anyone, just brought in veteran gus like Greg Ellis to try and help the young players on the team develop. They are starting 2 rookie wr’s with now Todd Watkins #3 until Chaz comes back.

Yah, should Al have drafted more conservatively in recent years? For sure! However, Gallery hasn’t worked out, before him Stinchcomb didn’t work out. Gallery coming out of school was as much a prospect as Ryan Clady. I can’t blame AD for taking McFadden over him based on what happened with Gallery (I think he is a great guard, and a guy we can win with but still has to be considered a relative bust as a #2 overall pick).

We need an identity. Are we an offensive team (Saints, Colts) or are we a defensive team (Ravens, Bears, Steelers)?

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Dakota:

Well said. We absolutely lack any identity at all. I thought we had one last year. It was clear that we do one thing really well, and that is run the ball.

So what do we do, drive after drive? Open with a play-action fake. Guess what? The play action does nothing when you don’t actually run the ball with any consistency.

The Jets’ game plan yesterday was exactly the Marty-Ball type of game plan we should be employing EVERY single Sunday until JaMarcus proves he’s ready for more.

Theh Jets learned their lesson last week. They let Sanchez lose the game for them and they learned quickly that he’s not ready yet. So they realized they run the ball well and stuck to it.

If the Raiders stuck to their running game, they may still lose more games than they win right now, but, I guarantee you we’d be in every game.

You don’t go down 21-0 ten minutes into a ball game when you commit to a run game.