russell is gettin that money next year whether u like it or not. that shouldnt be important like his improvement. im not worried about how much he make cuz ill never have to pay him. i could care less about his money like yall do. what you worried about it for, u jealous?

it’s not jealousy it’s more like shock!!! why should a ditch digger make a CEO wage?

But everyone lies and says he didn’t have time. He had plaenty of time. He just played terrible. If it’s Russell everything would’ve been blamed on him no time would not matter. Grads fumbled twice but no one a cares because he has pocket presence. lol Yeah right!

I’ll answer you Raiderman99. When I first saw Russell the first thing I notced was how well he threw on the run and his arm strength. He made some unbelieveable throws. Most were out of the pocket and on the run. Throwing bullets between defenders. Russell is struggling more with his confidence than he is with his accuracy. I say that because he throws the ball accurately to the HB’s and TE’s look at his stats.

When Chaz and JLH were starting he wasn’t deadly accurate but got the ball to them. And most of the time they caught it. Go back and look at those games last year completely different QB totaly.

His presence in the pocket was exceptional when he was confident. His ability to see the field was exceptinal when he was confident. His ability to hit his recievers in stide was exceptional when he was confident. his leadership skills were exceptional when he was confident. He brought LSU from behind t win 8 games in 29 starts. He brought the Raiders from behind to win games 3 times last year and this year The Jets the Bucs and KC and we should have beaten SD.

We would’ve beaten KC if DHB doesn’t drop his TD pass with him as a starter. What you’ve seen with Russell is a very young QB srtuggling with his confidence more than anything else. Yes no question he needs to put mor work everybody knows that.

But if you innumerate everything you look for in a QB before you draft him Russell showed that before he was drafted. Leadership wasn’t even a question. You may have question his maturity to some extent but how long des that last eventually he’ll mature. All the other attributes were there.

Leadership, competitiveness, accuracy, makes all the throws has command in the huddle. The tougher the situations the more he competes. He did that with us. This year he lifted this team to a go ahead TD late in the SD gamea also in the KC game.

As I said his biggest problem right now is his confidence in the players around him. If he were more confident you’d see a lot more accurate QB. A lot more you’d see what you saw last year even more.

Get Russell 3 good WR’s to go with that TE and a running game and then I’ll take anything he turns out to be.