Raiders staff to coach North in Senior Bowl
By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 at 3:33 pm in Oakland Raiders.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen and his staff will coach the North team in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., according to the Senior Bowl web site.
The South team will be coached by Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz and his staff.
Coaching the Senior Bowl will in theory give the Raiders a leg up on scouting some of the country’s best senior talent heading into the scouting combine Feb. 20-26 in preparation for the NFL draft from April 25-27.
The Raiders at present hold the No. 3 overall pick in the draft.
“It’s a great opportunity for the Raiders,’’ Allen said in a Senior Bowl release. “It gives us a chance to get a solid evaluation on these players. We get a better feel on them because we see them in meetings, we work with them in practice and we can determine whether their personality will fit well in our locker room.
“It’s an opportunity to get an in-depth feel on a lot of those guys.’’
The Senior Bowl is scheduled for Jan. 26 at 1 p.m. at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile.
The Raiders and Lions staffs will conduct practices throughout the week.
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January 3rd, 2013 at 3:35 pm
GREAT news!!!
Will help us with our 4th rd picks and later.
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:36 pm
lmao…great opportunity…go be a college coach then. by the way what staff? seniors are probably…”dayum…this is gonna svck.”
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:36 pm
who will run the offence?
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:36 pm
I would never coach the Snorth team, its all about that big bad SOUTHSIDE!!!!
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:37 pm
I still say we are going to get a dynamic player with our 3rd rd pick. That’s a high pick. Some kid who slides out of the 2nd rd.
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:37 pm
rbs are like sh!t 3 yard carries…wrs are like dayum 4 yard outs…
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:37 pm
How come we get this privelidge so frequently?
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:38 pm
OAKLAND RAIDERS @RAIDERS
Head Coach Dennis Allen and the Raiders coaching staff will coach the North squad in the 2013 Senior Bowl January 26 in Mobile, Alabama.
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This is a good thing. Will give us a 1st hand look at the new 2013 draftees.
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Al Saunders seems capable of running the North O…
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:39 pm
3.Moose Says:
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:36 pm
who will run the offence?
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Easy solution, the OC for the Raiders will be the victor of a Madden tournament, it could end up we have the youngest OC in NFL history, at age 12.
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:39 pm
4.da trinity Says:
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:36 pm
I would never coach the Snorth team, its all about that big bad SOUTHSIDE!!!!
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Save that for post #13
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Bad links for the next posting
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:45 pm
DAM, u right judge
1×3
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Fellas, I have a good read to recommend.
These are pieces of a great article by Chris Brown from smart football, I suggest you look it up on the web yourselves as the full article contains plays and pictures that help explain this stuff.
It’s about the new offensive tendencies that are changing the game.
“I watched a good football game the other day. One team built a big lead over the other with a dizzying array of strategies: shifts, motions, multiple formations, and even read-option plays, where the quarterback decided whether to hand the ball off or keep it himself based on the defense’s movement.
With the score 31-3, I nearly stopped watching.
Then the trailing team sprang to life, scoring four touchdowns in less than a quarter, tying the game 31-31, by throwing the ball 65 times using three, four and five receiver sets and a frenetic no-huddle pace.
The comeback failed, however, as the team that once led by 28 points responded with a quick touchdown of their own, and won 41-34.
It was a good game, but an odd one. What was not strange were the teams’ tactics. In high school and college, football has been rapidly changing. New variations on the read-option, no-huddle and all manner of other new offensive strategies seem to pop up every year. There, change is normal.
But I wasn’t watching two high schools, or even two teams from the Mid-American Conference or the Big 12.
No, what made the game odd was that I was watching the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots in the National Football League.
After years of being resistant to change, the NFL is suddenly using the newest and best ideas all over.
Three of the NFL’s top 10 offenses in yards and four of the top 10 in yards per play all rely to some extent on these innovative schemes.
So why is the NFL changing now? For the same reason change in football always happens: because football is in a moment, a moment when new kinds of ideas meet a new kind of talent.
A new class of young, multitalented quarterbacks who can throw and run – not just one or the other – is dragging the NFL to its future.
About three years ago, Greg Roman, then offensive coordinator at Stanford University, traveled to Reno, Nev., to visit with Nevada Wolf Pack head coach Chris Ault to learn about his “Pistol Offense.”
Before the 2005 season, Ault, unhappy with his offense, presented his staff with a new idea – a shotgun formation with the running back aligned directly behind the quarterback. “They thought I’d lost my marbles,” Ault recently recalled.
But with the “Pistol” Nevada went from near the bottom to the top of its conference in offensive production and over the next few years slowly added additional components to the attack to make it even more effective.
The potency of Ault’s offense peaked during the 2009 season when they finished the season with three 1,000-yard rushers – two running backs as well as lanky junior quarterback, a Colin Kaepernick, who added another 2,000 passing yards and 20 touchdowns.
The following offseason Roman – along with many other coaches from across the country – visited Ault. He wanted to learn how to add some Pistol looks to the pro-style offense he ran at Stanford under head coach Jim Harbaugh. During their visit, Ault was, according to Roman, “very accommodating and it was very interesting as a coach to go really learn something totally new,” he said, adding, “That was very valuable time spent.”
The next season Stanford added a few such new looks, but did not focus on it. But, as fate would have it, Roman, now the San Francisco 49ers’ offensive coordinator, still under Harbaugh, coaches Kaepernick, the 49ers’ second-round draft pick in 2011. These days he finds himself going back to his notes from those few days he spent in Reno.
Still, even with his inside knowledge of Ault’s attack, and Kaepernick on the 49ers’ roster, Roman and Harbaugh didn’t immediately decide to turn things over to their young quarterback.
Instead, and despite the off-and-on success teams like the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos had dabbling in these concepts with quarterbacks Cam Newton and Tim Tebow in 2011, it was not until this season, when Robert Griffin III entered the NFL and emerged as the Washington Redskins’ starting quarterback, that many other NFL coaches began to realize Ault’s ideas might be the next big thing.
“The Redskins do it more than anybody,” said Roman. “We’re just starting to tap into it now.”
Griffin, the second-overall pick in the 2012 draft, is a preternaturally gifted player with a beautiful throwing motion and a knack for making good decisions on the football field – and he also just happens to have track-star speed.
In college at Baylor, Griffin operated Art Briles’s offense, a no-huddle, fast paced spread-‘em-out-attack which aligned receivers as wide as possible without putting them in the bleachers. Yet while Griffin often ran the ball at Baylor, they rarely used the Pistol look.
In the NFL, however, under the direction of head coach Mike Shanahan and offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan and with Griffin at quarterback, the Redskins have made extensive use of Ault’s creation.
When Mike Shanahan was head coach of the Denver Broncos, he melded the West Coast offense he’d used to win a Super Bowl with the zone blocking schemes offensive line coach Alex Gibbs brought from the San Francisco 49ers. Those schemes remain the foundation of the Shanahan-Redskins attack today.
The Shanahans, in search of some way to mesh Griffin’s special talents with the zone blocking schemes they’d made famous nearly 20 years earlier, settled on the Pistol attack created by Ault as the centerpiece of their offense.
It’s worked.
Although the Redskins’ leaky defense and a few close losses have them at 8-6, they have arguably the most efficient offense in the NFL, fourth in total yards and leading the league with 6.2 yards per play. Another rookie, sixth-round draft choice Alfred Morris, is third in the league in rushing, while Griffin is second in the league in passing rating, a remarkable performance by a rookie quarterback.
Although Pistol offense schemes are a big part of the Redskins’ identity, it’s not all they do. Their key to success has been that the Shanahans have found a way to blend the new schemes with what they’ve had success with for many years in the NFL, creating something that is a perfect fit for their uniquely talented rookie quarterback.
“There are no gimmicks in our offense,” Nevada head coach Chris Ault recently explained. “When the shotgun offenses came out, I enjoyed watching those teams move the football. The thing I did not like was the idea of a running back getting the ball running east and west,” he said. “We have always been a north and south running game offense.”
The entire premise of Ault’s pistol attack is to combine the best of the shotgun spread offenses, like Chip Kelly’s attack at Oregon, with the traditional, north-south power attack Ault had coached for more than 20 years. The Pistol alignment is merely the means by which to do it; the “Pistol Offense” is this blend of old and new.
It is easy to see why Ault’s vision had more appeal to the NFL mindset than the “east-west” schemes of Chip Kelly or the other spread offense gurus. The NFL is a league concerned with its image, and, despite the efficacy of those offenses, for the NFL to adopt something as its own it must appeal both to the ego and the mind.
There was never any doubt these concepts would eventually be adopted by NFL coaches as a useful tool in a larger arsenal, but many resisted the notion of ever making the concepts the centerpiece of a team’s offense.
The most common reason cited for such resistance was NFL defenses were simply too fast, too strong, too complex and too good for it to be successful. Yet that always got the point backwards.
Those factors – while all true – also made it inevitable that the NFL would eventually adopt these concepts: Ault’s Pistol zone read attack, Chip Kelly’s no-huddle spread option, and other variants mathematically tip the scales back to the offense’s favor.
It’s basic arithmetic.
“As I’ve tried to explain to people, whenever the guy who takes the snap is a threat to run, it changes all the math of defenses,” Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano said last March. “That’s really what defense is, it’s getting your troops to where the ball is going to be. And when that guy holding it is a threat to run, it changes the numbers – minus-one.”
And it’s not all about running. The other reason – maybe the major reason – the NFL is now catching on is that they now see the effect these schemes can have on passing.
When the quarterback is a threat to run, defenses must stack the line of scrimmage, opening up passing lanes and one-on-one matchups for wide receivers outside.
“You do read-option, read-option, read-option and then get them to play seven or eight in the box and you’ve got so many variations of plays and passes you can run off that,” Cam Newton said recently.
Indeed, Mike Shanahan thinks that play-action which fakes a zone-read, whether from the pistol or other shotgun sets, is actually better than traditional under-center play-action because of the increased influence it has on linebackers and safeties looking for the run. “Not a little bit more,” said Shanahan. “A lot more”.
Just as Roman and Harbaugh have embraced the trend to take better advantage of Colin Kaepernick’s skills, Seattle Seahawk head coach Pete Carroll has tapped into the best read option concepts as a spark for his offense led by his own dynamic rookie quarterback, Russell Wilson.
Following a 19-13 loss to the St. Louis Rams, Carroll watched film of Griffin’s Redskins attack and saw something he didn’t necessarily expect: an NFL team successfully using the very concepts he’d had to deal with when he was head coach at Southern Cal and faced Chip Kelly’s Oregon team.
“They’re way ahead of everybody else in terms of their commitment to a really college style of offense,” Carroll said of the Redskins. “And it’s been very effective.”.
While the Seahawks have not used the Pistol much this year, they have increasingly adopted the zone read and other college-style schemes. “It just opens you up to the possibility of some things to do,” Carroll explained.
“It was a good move for me and it’s helped us a little bit. I was influenced a little bit more than I thought when I first looked at it. You see some of our stuff coming to life and it’s helping us.”
The common motivation for change in the NFL is not the genius of the coaches, or a desire to be revolutionary, or any kind of special tactical wisdom unforeseen by anyone before.
In the NFL, change is not driven so much by the ideas themselves as by the skills of its players.
In this instance it is the need to find a way that best takes advantage of the dynamic talent of young quarterbacks like Griffin, Kaepernick and Wilson.
As long as more quarterbacks with their skills keep coming into the league, the NFL will continue to adapt.”
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Moose Says:
January 3rd, 2013 at 3:36 pm
who will run the offence?
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Who will coach the defense?
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Post 3 who will run the offense is funny as #¥€%!! It is a good advantage and our 3rd round pick will probably on that squad. Or it will influence Reggie even more to trade down
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:35 pm
The senior bowl rarely has top 5 players, for fear of injury or devaluation. We need a 2nd round pick but trading players accelerates the cap hit. Huff needs to restructure, and DT Kelly as well. Neither would bring a 2nd but a 4th maybe or late 3rd to a contending team
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:50 pm
What staff?
January 3rd, 2013 at 7:17 pm
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January 4th, 2013 at 4:29 am
Now, a disater waiting to happened for the North team!! Hey Mark, you’d lost an opprtunity to get Reid now! Basement dweller for the AFC West! Knuckleheads!!!
January 4th, 2013 at 12:13 pm
Yup…if the OC is Knapp, expect that potent power-sweep to the left and right! Hopefully we find some potential D linemen and D backs. GET RID OF HUFF TODAY!
January 7th, 2013 at 9:18 am
Okay I am here where the FVCK is everyone else. Are you just manipulating me? BWAHAHAHAHA
January 7th, 2013 at 9:20 am
24!!!
What up!
January 7th, 2013 at 9:20 am
At a kid Ray
January 7th, 2013 at 9:21 am
Should help everyone using a phone make it a bit faster
January 7th, 2013 at 9:33 am
Hey. What’s up dudes. Nice to be able to type something and see it right away.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:34 am
This must be where the cool people hang out.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:40 am
Good Morning Raider bros!
Do we have a new OC yet? A least interview somebody Reggie! Watching the playoffs this weekend reminded me just how bad our offense & O-line were this year…OUCH
January 7th, 2013 at 9:41 am
I should say…interview someone Reggie and Dennis!
January 7th, 2013 at 9:44 am
I’m in!
January 7th, 2013 at 9:48 am
Much faster
January 7th, 2013 at 9:49 am
I’ll keep telling them to go back to the future.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:52 am
4k posts…could be a possibility
January 7th, 2013 at 9:52 am
I love a good revolt
January 7th, 2013 at 9:53 am
I’m still frustrated that we haven’t even gone out and signed an ST coordinator; thete’s no reason not to if Reggie is just waiting around for some GB practice squad coach to be our next OC.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:53 am
Well at least these college prospects wont have KNapp poluting thier game and minds
January 7th, 2013 at 9:54 am
Purvisman/Intrepid// Full Disclosure Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:49 am
I’ll keep telling them to go back to the future.
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Great movie, always wanted that sports almanac…I thought back then the Raiders would’ve had at least 2 more SB wins by the year 2000.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:55 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:45 am
Morning/afternoon peoples!
Happy New Year to all!!!
Whats smokin in the 2013 Green Party?
January 7th, 2013 at 9:56 am
Question on that one…if Bo doesn’t go down, would we have beaten Buffalo and NY Giants?
January 7th, 2013 at 9:56 am
Hell yeah…mucho mas better!!
January 7th, 2013 at 9:56 am
What’s up DMAC?
January 7th, 2013 at 9:57 am
What up Hwnrdr
Happy new year brother
January 7th, 2013 at 9:57 am
Back to the “cop subject”
Cops are trampling our basic rights more and more each day.
They do some underhanded shvt and get away with it because people let them.
I used to believe a lot differently than I do now and I do realize that there are a FEW good ones out there.
Don’t talk to cops easieast way to stay out of trouble
January 7th, 2013 at 9:58 am
Whats the Norv update?
Is he our OC yet, or has he found another gig?
January 7th, 2013 at 9:59 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:56 am
Question on that one…if Bo doesn’t go down, would we have beaten Buffalo and NY Giants?
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That question always tortured my mind in the 1990’s…with Bo anything was possible. As long as Jay Schroder wasn’t throwing the ball.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:00 am
Does anyone make anything out of Norvs comments to Pryor or was Norv just being a decent human being?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:00 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:58 am
Whats the Norv update?
Is he our OC yet, or has he found another gig?
Rumored to go to NY Jets…funny is that they still have their OC in place, but Ryan wants him
January 7th, 2013 at 10:01 am
29.R8drinOK Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:40 am
Good Morning Raider bros!
Do we have a new OC yet? A least interview somebody Reggie! Watching the playoffs this weekend reminded me just how bad our offense & O-line were this year…OUCH
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I think on offense, if we have a competent OC we will be alot better.
The glaring need I see (everybody has their own take) is at the reciever positions.
Waaaaay too many drops. If it wasn’t thrown directly in the hands of the receivers it would get dropped or tipped and intercepted. Guys would not make plays…period. No fighting for the ball, or coming back to it to bail Palmer out when he was under duress.
For the 1st time all yr. I saw another team look as bad as we did at receiver and that’s the Colts.
It was horrible the way they were dropping balls at the most critical times.
4th an 4 with the game and season on the line and Luck tosses a simple little play towards the sideline and it goes right thru the receivers hands.
Only time all yr i’ve seen a team be as bad as the Raiders in that regard.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:01 am
R8drinOK Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:59 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:56 am
Question on that one…if Bo doesn’t go down, would we have beaten Buffalo and NY Giants?
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That question always tortured my mind in the 1990’s…with Bo anything was possible. As long as Jay Schroder wasn’t throwing the ball.
LOL< True though!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:01 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:00 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:58 am
Whats the Norv update?
Is he our OC yet, or has he found another gig?
Rumored to go to NY Jets…funny is that they still have their OC in place, but Ryan wants him
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Reggie needs to make a move
January 7th, 2013 at 10:01 am
Good Morning Nation!!!! Did we hire Pep Hamilton Yet?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:02 am
3600 plus. So we don’t break the record. I can live with that.
Posted on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
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January 7th, 2013 at 10:02 am
We need to get someone good because the difference in coaching talent in the West is night and day especially since KC got REID
January 7th, 2013 at 10:05 am
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Trust in Jon.
Hold the line you pansies!!
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Post #3603. He’s talking to himself.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:05 am
Raider O Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 7:51 am
Good morning Nation and Green Party.
Where is our Prez? He is MIA since I sent an email.
Don’t be scared Mr. Prez. It’s just a name. lol
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Good Morning Mr. Prez!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:05 am
LOL @ You People.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:06 am
Does anyone make anything out of Norvs comments to Pryor or was Norv just being a decent human being?
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Prolly just being decent.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:07 am
Can’t remember what he said…what did he say about Pryor?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:09 am
Norv is far from a decent human being
January 7th, 2013 at 10:10 am
Raider O Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:05 am
Raider O Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 7:51 am
Good morning Nation and Green Party.
Where is our Prez? He is MIA since I sent an email.
Don’t be scared Mr. Prez. It’s just a name. lol
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Good Morning Mr. Prez!
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Brother from anotha motha!!!
Still smokin baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:11 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:07 am
Can’t remember what he said…what did he say about Pryor?
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Just something to the effect of (Keep grinding son, you did good out there today)
Or some Sh*t like that. It was just words of encouragement.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:13 am
That was nice of Norv!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:13 am
Norv isnt coming to the Raiders!!!!!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:14 am
Post 3610, too funny
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:08 am
Stay the course RaiderO.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:17 am
Who else is freezing their ballz off????
January 7th, 2013 at 10:18 am
LOL at Dakota & Llama Man.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Freezing here in the Eastbay
January 7th, 2013 at 10:19 am
Southern Utah 38 Degrees now colder at night. Heatwave last couple days -4 in Cedar 2 days ago
January 7th, 2013 at 10:20 am
I need to recruit a sexy fat chick to keep me warm during the winter.
Real talk!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:22 am
If your gonna do that just make it a “Slump Buster” DMAC
Do it for your team man!!
God knows our coaches aint doin shvt!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:23 am
with the 4 teams gone…anyone see anything there that maybe….MAYBE Reggie has his eyes on?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:23 am
jesusraiderjim Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:22 am
If your gonna do that just make it a “Slump Buster” DMAC
Do it for your team man!!
God knows our coaches aint doin shvt!
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I’ll see what I can reel in
January 7th, 2013 at 10:24 am
Knapp is a curious case. After reading that bumbling transcript from his last presser when he used the injuries to the running backs as his excuse for the running game, and then cited how proud he was the running game had improved recently, but it was the fill ins for the injured players who were the ones producing.
So, the injuries that were the cause of the running game woes (in his statement) were actually what caused them to improve and made him proud.
Makes no sense.
Reggie and DA must have heard or read that and thought “WTH”?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:25 am
All I know is DA better not fk this up again!!!
We need to make a good hire.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:25 am
That sounds promising. Go Raiders
Dakota is having an AWESOME conversation with himself on the other post.
So valid points I might add.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:28 am
LOL….
January 7th, 2013 at 10:30 am
So who do you want as an OC?
Pep Hamilton
Aaron Kromer
Jim Tressel (No Way It Happens)
January 7th, 2013 at 10:32 am
I think we’ll trade out the top 10 spot.
We have too many holes to fill in.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:34 am
Told you he was talking to himself
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:28 am
So Dakota, do you think Hue will be an NFL HC again?
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Well Dakota, obviously I think Hue can impress in an interview, so obviously he can get another HC gig, if, obviously, he can get some interviews. Hue obviously has some potential.
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Dakota, why should we draft Joeckel when we have so many holes on the defense
January 7th, 2013 at 10:34 am
Hue for OC!
Draft all defense and a RT
January 7th, 2013 at 10:35 am
Should we tell manassamauler? He just jumped on.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:36 am
There’s a better chance that Mistic becomes a Carson Palmer Fanboy than Hue returning to Oakland…
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
DJ Johnny Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:01 am
I think on offense, if we have a competent OC we will be alot better.
The glaring need I see (everybody has their own take) is at the reciever positions.
Waaaaay too many drops. If it wasn’t thrown directly in the hands of the receivers it would get dropped or tipped and intercepted. Guys would not make plays…period. No fighting for the ball, or coming back to it to bail Palmer out when he was under duress.
For the 1st time all yr. I saw another team look as bad as we did at receiver and that’s the Colts.
It was horrible the way they were dropping balls at the most critical times.
4th an 4 with the game and season on the line and Luck tosses a simple little play towards the sideline and it goes right thru the receivers hands.
Only time all yr i’ve seen a team be as bad as the Raiders in that regard.
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Great points DJ, our WR’s were not a strength. I thought they would be going in but everyone regressed minus Myers. DMAC was horrible catching passes this year as well.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Purvisman/Intrepid// Full Disclosure Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:35 am
Should we tell manassamauler? He just jumped on.
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Anyway to do this without alerting RaiderDebo?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Tressel DID have alot of success at OSU, but man…He’s ULTRA conservative. Even more than Knapp I’d say. No Flash and Dash in his Play sheet.
Off tackle Right,
Off tackle Left,
Post
Rinse and repeat.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Why start all over, when Hue can take over 2day and have our offense running?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:38 am
It’s pretty early for Debo.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:39 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Why start all over, when Hue can take over 2day and have our offense running?
Would you come back if you were Hue?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:39 am
Hue has to much Pride to come in and work under the guy who took his job…
January 7th, 2013 at 10:39 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:32 am
I think we’ll trade out the top 10 spot.
We have too many holes to fill in.
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I change my stance on this DAILY……
Today I’m saying we use our #3 pick, and trade player(s) for a 2nd rounder.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:40 am
I see. Debo is there. My lips are sealed!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:40 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:39 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Why start all over, when Hue can take over 2day and have our offense running?
Would you come back if you were Hue?
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Yes
January 7th, 2013 at 10:41 am
Maybe Debo, Dakota, Manassa and mistic can break the record over there!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:41 am
It’d be nice to see Greg Jennings here next year but rumor on the Street is he’s taking his talents to Miami Beach.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:43 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:40 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:39 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Why start all over, when Hue can take over 2day and have our offense running?
Would you come back if you were Hue?
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Yes
you would? He would have to swallow some big time pride
January 7th, 2013 at 10:45 am
PurpleDrank81 Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:41 am
It’d be nice to see Greg Jennings here next year but rumor on the Street is he’s taking his talents to Miami Beach.
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Would love to have him, but is getting old and injuries are starting to occur more often than not.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:45 am
PurpleDrank81 Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:41 am
It’d be nice to see Greg Jennings here next year but rumor on the Street is he’s taking his talents to Miami Beach.
He’s playing tonight in the BCS Championship?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:46 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:43 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:40 am
hwnrdr Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:39 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Why start all over, when Hue can take over 2day and have our offense running?
Would you come back if you were Hue?
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Yes
you would? He would have to swallow some big time pride
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Whats a better position?
OC or quality coach or whatever the fk he is?
Plus you come back home.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:46 am
Debo talking about Andy Dalton and comparing him to Bruce….
January 7th, 2013 at 10:48 am
Whats a better position?
OC or quality coach or whatever the fk he is?
Plus you come back home.
Yes, I see your point…but…Will Reggie take him back? Remember, after he fired Hue, Hue kinda ripped him…
I would be surprised
January 7th, 2013 at 10:49 am
Also, Guest mentioned something about RGIII possibly missing the whole 2013 season! OUCH!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:52 am
manassamauler is responding to Dakota, not even aware that Dakota is facetiously talking to himself.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:53 am
Greg Jenning’s reunting with Joe Philbin is very possible.
Hue coming back would be Reggie admitting he made a mistake and also Hue coming back means Hue would have to swallow his pride and come back to a lower position than he held last time.
That’s alot of pride in 1 building…. You’d need Jenna Jameson to SWALLOW that much pride
January 7th, 2013 at 10:53 am
I know…that is funny!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:53 am
God I love the people on this blog.
Unabounded humor.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:54 am
PurpleDrank81 Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:53 am
Greg Jenning’s reunting with Joe Philbin is very possible.
Hue coming back would be Reggie admitting he made a mistake and also Hue coming back means Hue would have to swallow his pride and come back to a lower position than he held last time.
That’s alot of pride in 1 building…. You’d need Jenna Jameson to SWALLOW that much pride
LOL…I don’t think Tito would like that though!
January 7th, 2013 at 10:55 am
No knock on the brudda RGIII but they are just fine with Cousins…his trade value will rise when he shows he has that it factor when it comes to QB’s
January 7th, 2013 at 11:00 am
So who is DA waiting for? No rats inside the building?
January 7th, 2013 at 11:00 am
2nd ACL Injury in RG3’s Career. Finishing your rookie career with your 2nd ACL Injury for a guy who relies on his feet… I really hope this kid can stay healthy. He’s a great talent with a great head on his shoulders but sometimes your body just wont let you do what your heart wants it to do.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:01 am
Will the Raiders be taking a close look at Te’o 2nite?
Could be the QB of our defense.
We are sorely lacking a motivator on the D.
Wouldn’t mind seeing him in silver and black.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:03 am
Te’o is the type of player were looking for but I just dont see it with the 3rd pick… I really like him but I wouldnt take him before pick 6
January 7th, 2013 at 11:03 am
Word
January 7th, 2013 at 11:04 am
Our new QB on the D for years……..
January 7th, 2013 at 11:09 am
We need a beast pass rusher!
Avril and Johnson (bengals)
Both young and pretty damn good.
Avril may be a costly though.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:10 am
Beast Pass Rushers will instantly give our DB’s a break
January 7th, 2013 at 11:13 am
Should we bring back Carter?
January 7th, 2013 at 11:16 am
DMAC Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 11:01 am
Will the Raiders be taking a close look at Te’o 2nite?
Could be the QB of our defense.
We are sorely lacking a motivator on the D.
Wouldn’t mind seeing him in silver and black.
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you betch-yer ARSE they’ll be looking at Te’o tonight. As we should be.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:18 am
Definitely would rather have Jenna Jameson swallowing than Hue…lol
Wonder if she knows anything about football…
January 7th, 2013 at 11:19 am
IF Te’o ends up having a Lewis / Urlacher effect on whatever team he goes to, you really think it’ll matter where we took him, if we did?
31 other teams (looking back) would have taken Lewis #1 overall, if given the chance. And of course, if they’d known what he would be.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:20 am
#117.. He!!s to the yeah!! Dont care how old he is, dude can play… speaking along those lines, London Fletcher is a beast!!
January 7th, 2013 at 11:22 am
Yes, Fletcher can at least tell the Niners D that he did what they couldn’t in Seattle…Catch Russell Wilson…lol…
January 7th, 2013 at 11:23 am
WhoEVER we take at #3 isn’t going to break the bank anyway. All that needs to be decided is “What do we need more?”
A Captian of our Defense? Or elite pass rush?
January 7th, 2013 at 11:23 am
I’ll be looking at Te’o tonight as well! Making sure he may be worth the #3 or not! But if Moore is off the board, I say we take Te’o, or vice versa!
January 7th, 2013 at 11:25 am
Dakota is a one man comedy show on the other post. Funny shvt!!!
January 7th, 2013 at 11:28 am
theghostronin79 Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 11:23 am
WhoEVER we take at #3 isn’t going to break the bank anyway. All that needs to be decided is “What do we need more?”
A Captian of our Defense? Or elite pass rush?
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I’m going w/ captain 2day, but may change my mind.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:30 am
I just worry about Teo’s Lateral speed. The guy racked up alot of Tackles but 50% of those were Assisted. He does have an eye for the ball and has alot of heart but all I hear is that he’s a giant leader but doesnt leads by hid words but his actions on the field buttttttt thats the same thing I heard about McClain. Sorry if I get freaked out about taking a LB so low but McClain has scarred me and we have so many needs at so many positions that trading down mite benefit us alot more.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:31 am
I hope Te’o has a excellent game tonight but I’ll still be rooting for Alabama
January 7th, 2013 at 11:35 am
You guys see (undrafted) Burfict play for the Bungles?
Could of drafted him in place of Stupar.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:36 am
theghostronin79 Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 11:23 am
WhoEVER we take at #3 isn’t going to break the bank anyway. All that needs to be decided is “What do we need more?”
A Captian of our Defense? Or elite pass rush?
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How long has it been since we’ve had a rookie provide an immediate impact on Defense? I’d say not since C Woodson in 98. Hope Te’o is the man.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:36 am
new post fellas!
January 7th, 2013 at 11:39 am
He does have an eye for the ball and has alot of heart but all I hear is that he’s a giant leader but doesnt leads by hid words but his actions on the field buttttttt thats the same thing I heard about McClain. Sorry if I get freaked out about taking a LB so low but McClain has scarred me and we have so many needs at so many positions that trading down mite benefit us alot more.
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Somebody compared the 2 earlier this year….
Romac : Picture of him smiling that cheezy grin while in hand cuffs..
Te’o : Picture of him In the stands cheering for his little sisters volleyball game.
Totally different character molds these 2.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:56 am
New Post???
January 7th, 2013 at 11:59 am
Teo is good. A little overhyped for my tastes, but I know how those things go. Hes going to be solid in the NFL, but I dont see him being Patrick Willis for a team in need of a MLB. Again, not knocking Teo, love his instincts, but hes just not an elite player to me and I cant see taking him 3.
If we took Teo 3, ehh, Id be disappointed by the reach, but Id accept that we picked up a solid player.
However, Id much rather pick Star 3, because him and Desmond Bryant together will be tough for any O-line.
My solution for MLB instead of Teo? Sign FA Rey Maualuga. Id like to see Rey cleaning up behind Star and Bryant in the middle.