Da Swami

"strike fear"

"The dude sucks"

That is the extent of your understanding of the game?

Can you tell us why for once?

Da Swami

Im not criticizing because someone has a different opinion than me.

Im doing it because some dont understand how the game is played. I played FS in college and never had to cover a WR over the top of a CB because he "struck fear" into me. All he had to have was the ability to get seperation on the CB.

One can get seperation in a whole myriad of ways.

If a WR can do that, you wont have the luxury of playing man free coverages using your safeties man under and causing presnap confusion.

This is ultra basic stuff man and its not my "opinion"

The past few years have seen the Raiders with slow WRs that allowed the bolts to play a ton of cover one and man free coverages. That is due to the lack of speed at WR.

The fact is that we have WRs that are faster than last years were.

If you think that Ted Cottrell wont notice and respect that, you are not capable of taking off your Raider hater glasses.

He will.

Trust me....he will.

If he doesnt, then he leaves his defense vulnerable in a big way.

You guys played a lot of man free on BOTH our WRs last year. Just forcing one safety to play a deep zone leaves one less back seven defender in the box.

I hop to God that TC thinks he can still go man free with both CBs.

Please Ted Please.....

Professor

James Jett, Ronald Curry, I know there was another guy that were all on the team because they were blazing fast WR's. Is Moss slow too, you say they have had slow WR's, I think that's a little ignorant when they have a WR in Moss who basically sucked on that team, goes to the pats and sets a record for TD passes. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Da Swami

Moss didnt play with us last year, Curry isnt a deep threat and Jett has been gone for 5 years now.

Having speed outside when your O line is in a mess isnt going to help.

I admit that.

However, despite your mypoic belief, our O line isnt in a mess like it was when Moss played with us. Sacks were cut in half last year and we were a ranked rushing team.From 2003 to 2006, we couldnt run the ball at all and we were giving up 60-70 sacks a year. The only player starting on our O line that was there in 2006 is Gallery.

Where have you been?

Get up to speed dude...its 2008 and the 2006 O line is all but history.

This is 2008 dude.

Now we have an O line thats respectable, a good running game, AND speed outside.

Sorry dude, but no, we have not had all 3 of these at the same time at any time in the recent past.

We do now.

Professor

how about Alvis Whitted or Doug Gabriel. Those guys were burners. I was just trying to remember names off the top of my head.

Keep backpeddling and talking from your rectum, I am laughing my a$$ off every time I read your comedy routine that you call posting.

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Da Swami

Football is a team game dude.

If you dont have speed, with a line that can hold their blocks long enough for a QB to allow his WRs to get downfield, then speed wont matter.

I admitted that.

But you ducked the part about addressing our O line.

Thats because its impossible for a team to go from #30 in rushing to #6 in one year and not call that improvement. Im not backpeddaling at all. Im trying to pin you down on your floating points. Football is a team game. Let me rephrase it for you since obviously I have to break down every minor detail. We havent had speed at WR, with a line that could run, and a QB thgat could get the ball downfield all at once in years.

There, is that better?

Now quit ducking my points.

How did we go from a team that couldnt run the ball, to a team that could, with a guard thats a bust?

Explain how a team can rush the ball at all without being able to handle the area around the center and guards? If you cant run inside then you cant run wide.

Explain to me how that happened?

You arent discussing football here, youre interested in winning an argument. You give away thae fact that youve never strapped on the pads thats for sure.

Youve made no sense and keep changing the subject.

Address my question as to how our sack total dropped so much last year and our running game was so effective with a guard thats a bust.

I love the way you throw the term bust around.

A bust doesnt still have a starting job in his sixth year when his team was a top ranked rushing team the year before.

Quit changing the subject.

But Whitted was a burner?

Gabriel was too?

Where do you get your information?

Professor

if you rush alot you get yards, nufced

Al Doesn't draft based on speed guys huh? what about - Phillip Buchanon, Nnamd Asomugha, Fabian Washington, Stanford Routt, Thomas Howard, Quentin Moses, Johnnie Lee Higgins, and John Bowie - sometimes it works, sometimes it don't

Teams that get a lot of rushing yards usually win, unless it's a fluke see above

I avoid? more like you do that backpeddler, you said Al Davis is tired of losing after 5 years, why did it take that long?

you said that if you can't rush inside then you cannot run outside, well usually teams that run well parley that into a good passing game, that didn't happen another sign the rushing was a fluke stat

you base soo much on the fact that you went from the bottom of the league to the top of the league in rushing

you know what separtated 6th in rushing from 24th in rushing a measely 30+ yards a game, your 6th in rushing is meaningless, it's what lies under those stats - like of the top rushing teams, they had the second lowest average per rush

lets break it down game by game

92 against detroit - weak - 23rd against the run
200 against Denver who was known to be HORRIFIC against the run last year 30th in the league
186 against CLE - 27th in the league against the run
299 against MIA - 32 against the run
53 against SD - where is the juggernaut rushing team against an actual defender 16th against the run
55 against KC - terrible effort against the 28th ranked team against the run
92 against TENN havent broken 100 in 3 weeks now
153 against HOU 19th against the run - lost the game - couldn't pass MCCown 48% completion - 3 picks
113 against Chicago - 30 yards by the QB McCown Scrambling only 83 by the RB's in that game another poor game
61 against minn #1 run defense stop this team
153 against KC - much better this time against one of the worst run defenses in the league
175 against Denver but everyone was running on them again 30th in the league
85 against GB 14th in the league
149 against Indy 15th in the league but they lost and it took nearly 40 attempts
110 against JAX who already had their playoffs set and it still took 30 attempts
122 in a meaningless game against SD who played no one and still lost


The only game where this "good" rushing game did anything worthwhile was against Indy in a game where it took almost 40 attempts (39) to get 149 yards in a blowout loss.

The Raiders racked up the yards against the terrible teams

1315 yards in 7 games against some of the worst rush defenses in the league for an average of 187 yds per game against those terrible teams

In the other 9 games they had 771 yards for an average of a meager 86/yds a game. Isn't that about what they averaged last year when Denver's and KC's run defenses were much better and you didn't get to put up 300 on a pitiful miami team

That 300 yards rushing against Miami really boosted the stats, didn't it



You see that means those rushing stats you hold so dear are crap. Not to mention that nearly 200 of those yards were on rushes by the QB when PASSING BROKE DOWN.


You see when you break it down you can really appreciate the sucktitude of the Raiders

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Dawardoe

I think they should take Jake Long.

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Professor

It doesn't matter who they SHOULD take, that has never mattered.

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gruntbygod

Alexander Wright. One of the fast guys in NFL history

Used to return kicks for Dallas