Free agent signings are still full of peril;

Hunter-30 years old with injury issues
Sims-27 years old with recent injury issues
Maiava-26 years old. Could have promise.

The good news is these guys are about the same as the guys they may replace for a lot less money. (Shaugnessy,Bryant,Wheeler).
Maybe we get lucky and they are durable. Then again we could have a Spencer/Bartell repeat.

This will not cahnge our draft strategy at all.
We will go Oline, DT and CB in that order with our first three picks.

The nonsense in Philly in recent years was not Reid.
It was Howie Roseman.That is why Reid left/was fired.

Reid will bring the NFC East mentality to the Chiefs.
Build the lines and win games 16-10.

Fortunately we will build our lines as well through the draft.

Reid is tough and the Chefs will be as well in a couple of years.

Mark

I feel better now about the Raiders than I have since 2002.

Cutting out the dead wood. A team completely lacking in talent that will finally be rebuilt throgh the draft.
We will not be relevent till 2014 but we are finally fixing this mess.

“It’s going to be structured around the personnel part and getting good players,” Madden said. “It’s all about players. We can talk about this thing and that thing and having good cheerleaders and all that. That’s all nice but you have to have players. If you have players, you’re probably going to win. If you don’t have players, you’re not going to win. … They’re going to go out and get the best players, and if they don’t have them, then they’re going to keep trying until they get them.”

“Vic Tafur, the Raiders beat writer for the San Francisco Chronicle sat down with Madden today and the great one shared his opinion on Dennis Allen’s first year as the head coach of the Raiders. While Madden did not go into great detail, breaking down how Allen’s first season went, what he did say was very telling. Basically, Madden stated that Allen was coaching a team that simply did not have enough talent on it to do much better than the 4-12 record the first year head coach put up.

Now, it is no surprise to hear that the Raiders lacked talent this past season, anyone who watched the games could see it. What is interesting about Madden’s comments is that he did not think there was much hope for the Raiders to have fared better than they did in 2012. That seems to go along with what a lot of people are saying, that Allen should get a pass on his first season because he had so little talent to work with.”

“He’s got a ways to go. He was playing the game without a full deck. To be honest, they don’t have enough players. The cupboard was pretty bare. It would have been tough to do much more than what they did.
“If he’s going to do well, they gotta get a lot more … some teams need a quarterback or a running back, or a pass rusher … The Raiders need a whole barrel of guys.”-madden