Comments on: Raiders live chat here Tuesday at noon

By: RaiderReggie

RaiderReggie — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:03:25 +0000

The negative comments I am hearing about Jason Campbell were the same sort of comments that I heard when the Raiders signed Jim Plunkett. Plunkett was drafted by the Patriots and they gave up on him. He went to the 49ers and they gave up on him. When Al Davis got Plunkett, people were saying why is the Raiders signing that bust, he is native american and can’t think, he was too slow, he couldn’t read defenses and he didn’t do anything with the other teams he was on. It was down right hatred. Al Davis never bowed down to none of that non-sense. Two Superbowls later some of these fair weather fans wanted to jump all on Jim Plunkett n*ts and it made me sick! What I am saying is give Jason Campbell a chance before you throw him away. Years later some of you would be saying we should have kept Campbell.

By: raiderfankirk

raiderfankirk — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:22:33 +0000

Anyone know I Colts still run cover two as their base D? I hope so, Trips will kill it in the passing game. JC has to identify the correct receiver in the zone hole( take what they give), and that scares me. Maybe as many as four reads. If he can do that then we will know that we have a QB. This is what should have been done in Pitt. Playing a team and saying I’m gonna do what I want instead of what you need to do (short passes in the wholes) is just plain stupid. That’s on Hue. Pats showed us the week before.

By: raiderfankirk

raiderfankirk — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:12:45 +0000

Jb I agree with you about Bruce, except for his last game he was obviously still hurt. Remember preseason? He was lights out and can be a starter. After two seasons w/ the same mistake(taking on a linebacker heads up) I think he has learned his lesson. Where ever he lands I wis him luck.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:33:36 +0000

I too initially went back & forth on the value of JCambell and at time leaned towards Grads. But after Grads last game it was real obvious to me that he’s not durable nor proficient enough to be an NFL starting QB. He’s got some great attributes (i.e. leadership, energy, attitude, etc.) but his negatives far outweigh his positives. If he is resigned, which I do not think will happen, he will be a permanent back-up.

Now JC on the other hand started slow and made mistakes. He was obviously not in sync with our offense or players. BUT, over his last two games he’s made large positive strides in leading thos team to victory. If this progress continues he very well might be the QB we have been looking for. He seems to have a great attitude, better than average accuracy, can throw the long ball and does have touch. He mobile and lately has made excellent decisions in putting the ball away and running with it. Put a great O-line in front of him, Bush, DMac & Reece behind him, growth & improvement at the WR position and we have the makings of a very competitive team.

We still need to fix a couple of holes in the D and then we should be a threat to all who meet us. I definitely like the direction I see us traveling. Now let’s just send Peyton home with a L.

By: lefty12

lefty12 — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:28:48 +0000

But he is doing those basic things,especially in the 2nd half of games when it is needed.Sure,he could be a whole lot better,but for the most part,he isn’t throwing games away.He deserves to go into next year as the starter,no question.

By: jmcclain

jmcclain — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:24:40 +0000

What people fail to see is it took dmac his breakout season, Ford a big rookie surprise and oh am I glad we got him. Reece killer yr comming out of the backfield to make big plays on short passes. Miller and his awesome hands. Bush running hard this yr. To make this offense as good as it has been. Campbell I could honestly say has done nothing spectacular other then a good fake handoff one game and the bootleg. Other then that are big play makers are the reason for the offense this yr. Not Campbell who hue asks to do basic things.

By: CDERaider

CDERaider — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:23:09 +0000

If we start the game, and the Chiefs have lost.. Manning will be punished. There is no way we lose *if* we know winning means a chance at KC to win the division.

Go Raiders!!!

By: r8dercain

r8dercain — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:19:39 +0000

If I’m not mistaking an will all due respect to JC didn’t he have a stout Clinton portis in wash. The raiders are just playin good ball now plain an simple
the oline has been good an run blocking is excellent pass protection has been good.
An the dline has been dominant in all victories
folks it’s gonna take the WHOLE team playing at the level they can for us to beat Indy
oh an btw
a KClost in kc is just as bad as losing at home with me at the game

raiders need to win out no matter what that’s what I’ll except for now
I’ll take a second look at seasons end.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:18:49 +0000

Our main saving grace for this upcoming Colt games is the fact that they don’t have a devastating running game. Dealing with the robot-like professional QB Peyton Manning will be challenge enough. We need to be able to apply pressure to him with the front 4 only. Our LB’s will need to clean house and disable any any receiver crossing in front of them before they can get into a pattern. Our CB’s need to smother the receivers with man coverage and Huff needs to have his best game ever shutting down the TE. Manning will burn us big time if we try to blitz him. He’s just too good at recognizing defenses and he gets the ball out fast. Fortunately he’s not a running threat like Tebow.

We can win this game but we can’t make a bunch of dumb mistakes. Our running game will need to be productive from start to finish. Keeping Manning on the bench with long drives are the order of the day. 200 yds for DMac and at least 150 yds from Bush. Great play action fakes by JCampbell will also help contribute to a success. Should be a great game.

By: lefty12

lefty12 — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:17:52 +0000

That is your opinion.I give him much more credit than you do.I just don’t understand why you don’t have the same outrage for Jackson,who by all accounts is running the offense and has stated he was involved in the QB quandary early in the year.HJ stated he wanted to make the QB switch.Could it be Cable took responsibility for the move to show his assistants that as top dog he was willing to take the heat for decisions they wanted to make?
I think I know how you feel concerning the QBs but sometimes the way you present it,it sounds like you can’t stand BG and hated the fact he was given a shot to see if he was worthy of being the starter.