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Practicing what? LOL

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Practicing being the MLB for the Oakland Raiders.

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Thing is, which I dont think RRS understood, Im not comparing their ability. Im stating that the 2 are identical physical specimens. H/W/S.

No one reads your retarded banter I often wonder why are you even here are you that desperate for attention?

Paul G

ALAMEDA — If there was such a thing as MVP of the Raiders’ first open-to-the-media OTA practice, rookie receiver Juron Criner would have been feted.
The fifth-round draft pick was that good last Tuesday.
The obvious challenge, then, is for for the wideout from North Las Vegas by way of the University of Arizona to maintain his form going forward, especially as the second week of OTA’s get underway today at the team’s compound.
“I feel like it was a good practice, but that sets the tone for how I need to practice the rest of the time here, (for) the years to come,” Criner said Tuesday.
“It just shows the confidence. Once you start to get in your playbook and once you’re able more to just play and not have to think about what you’re doing, it starts to show.”
Sandwiched between cornerback DeMarcus Van Dyke and strong safety Tyvon Branch, Criner went up between the two of them to pull down a 50-yard bomb from quarterback Carson Palmer for a highlight reel touchdown.
Later, Criner went Cris Collingsworth worth an over-the-shoulder grab on a bomb from Terrelle Pryor, beating Pat Lee in the process.
All this, remember, from a 6-foot-3, 221-pound wideout with supposedly not enough speed to make such plays. His pedestrian 40-yard dash time of 4.68 seconds at the Combine would have turned off the previous Raiders’ regime.
“I feel like I was able to do that because you have to work the route. You’ve just got to try to eat up the cushion, stick the route. Just referring back to my college coach, you stick the route and try to get his hips to twitch any way you can and that will help you.”
And in going across the middle, and in traffic, he was able to adjust mid-route to pick Matt Leinart’s slighty-behind pass out of the air.
“He saved Carson, he saved myself, he saved Matt also,” Pryor said of Criner. “He’s a player. He has learned, just like myself and everybody else, he’s going to be a good one. He catches everything that comes near him. I was very impressed with him.”
A year ago, the Raiders’ fifth-round draft pick was a revelation in receiver Denarius Moore, whose 18.7-yards-per-catch average and five touchdown receptions led Oakland. No doubt, the Raiders are thinking they found another late-round steal in Criner.
Oh to have been a fly on Palmer’s shoulder as the two waked off the practice field following Criner’s, ahem, Practice MVP performance.
“That’s basically what he was telling me, that right there sets the standard,” Criner said of his walk-off conversation with Palmer. “You expect nothing less of yourself. He was just telling me, if you go at practice without making a play, you should be mad at yourself because you’re expected to do that day in and day out.
“When you get the chance, you’ve just got to come down with the ball. Like my old college coach used to tell me, when the ball’s in the air it belongs to you.”