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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:52:01 +0000

[...] will also need help along the way. But those are scenarios not even Hue Jackson is considering. Coach knows his team has to win to have any chance. That is the reality this team is faced with after three straight losses at the [...]

By: Sullivan44

Sullivan44 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:31:00 +0000

JB, it doesn’t necessarily clarify your view. It’s an entirely different view. One view is that Amy is running the show, and if she asks a GM to “schit”, he’s to respond, “how much, and what color”. The other view is that of Amy allowing the GM to be a GM and call the football shots. You seem to be conflicted as to who Amy Trask is.

By: Just Fire Baby

Just Fire Baby — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:22:51 +0000

You can get lucky and win 1 Super Bowl.

But Super Bowls (plural) aren’t won on luck.

Big Ben is going down as a top 20 all-time QB, and maybe higher if he can string together another solid 5-6 years.

By: gtown1_sj

gtown1_sj — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:19:18 +0000

Big Ben won the SB his rookie year. But he did have the advantage of a very stable organization.
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An organization that has been consistently in the playoffs before he got there and after. They have made good personnel decisions and put good players around him, but not to take anything away from Ben, like I said you have to be very lucky and in the right place at the right time.

By: Just Fire Baby

Just Fire Baby — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:17:35 +0000

Amazing that all 4 teams still have a decent shot at winning this division.

Every teams scenario is at least somewhat believable.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:16:16 +0000

Sullivan44 Says:
December 19th, 2011 at 6:07 pm

JB, you’re the one who said that if Amy Trask asks our GM to jump, he says how high. Or something of that nature. Did you not? Now you’re saying Amy Trask would back off? Which is it?
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My initial response was to your assertion that Amy would report to the GM & not the other way around. That comment about the CEO getting the Gm to jump was to emphasize the corporate structure by an extreme example. In reality, thee is nothing to indicate that Amy Trask would be anything other than supportive of efforts by the Gm HC or any other raider employee if were good for the team. Hopefully this clarifies my view on the situation and my comments. She’s been doing the job for 20 years now for what has to have been one of the toughest bosses in the world – Al Davis. If she can succeed under him, she should be good to go for almost everybody else. she’s also reportedly a very bright lady.

By: gtown1_sj

gtown1_sj — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:15:48 +0000

Do you think that given a chance, Mr. Davis would have signed Jim Harbaugh rather HueSux?
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Find me a rookie head coach who “Lost the owner, GM and face of the team”, “lost his starting QB”, “lost his starting RB”, “lost most of the defensive starters”, “lost his starting wide recieving core” and still had the ability to still be in position to be a playoff team?
To say “I have been a football and Raiders fan long enough to recognize an incompetent head coach when I see one” tells me you need to understand more as you watch while being a fan.

By: silverback

silverback — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:15:25 +0000

The dolts fans were screaming to get Jeff Fisher, the fins fans are begging for Bill Cowher or Chokey Gruden, and fans here are talking about keeping an overrated offensive coordinator.
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The coaches of these teams were given multiple chances to prove their unworthiness.The most I’ve ever heard a fan or semi say is one more year for Hue.

By: KoolKell

KoolKell — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:14:58 +0000

Big Ben won the SB his rookie year. But he did have the advantage of a very stable organization.

By: gtown1_sj

gtown1_sj — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:11:19 +0000

Most young QB’s sat behind a good veteran and learned a lot, find me a SB winning young Qb who did not learn from a good veteran?
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The point of the convo was Palmer is 32. I said he is at a prime age and that no young QB wins SB. All the people you mentioned played for a few years before getting to the SB. They didn’t get drafted and won a SB, so I think its pointless to use Palmer’s age as an argument against the reasoning of getting him.