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Really uninspiring football. 9-0 at halftime against the friggin Lions lol god help me !!
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If someone asked at the start of the season whether I would be happy with a 4-6 record after week 11 I would've replied with an adamant '**** yeah', given we would've already beaten our 2014 win total with 6 games in hand. But, after effectively giving away games to the: Bears (play-calling/weak Murray turnovers), Steelers (inability to shutdown 2 players), Vikings (only showing up for 1 quarter), Lions (general spudness), I can't say I'd reply with the same answer if asked now.
Yes please
The New York Jets dropped a bombshell today when they announced they were dropping former first round pick Quinton Coples. And in light of the Raiders recently losing Aldon Smith to a one-year suspension, they seem like a pretty good landing spot for Coples.
The former 16th overall selection out of North Carolina in the 2012 draft appeared in nearly every game over his first three seasons, starting most of them in his second and third season. He put up 16.5 sacks over those seasons from the rush outside linebacker position.
This offseason the the Jets changed coaching staffs and Coples found himself barely seeing the field (a total of five snaps on defense Sunday) and was ultimately released.
As with most Jets castoffs, the first place people expect him to land is Buffalo where his former head coach Rex Ryan is now. But if Ryan wants him, he would have to hope no one in the waiver order takes Coples ahead of him. The Bills are currently 23rd in the waiver order. The Raiders are ninth.
As far as cap money, that is not a big issue. He is due just $535k for the remainder of this season. That jumps up to $7.75 million next season, so Coples would have to have a hell of a six-game audition to earn a return next season.
The New York Jets dropped a bombshell today when they announced they were dropping former first round pick Quinton Coples. And in light of the Raiders recently losing Aldon Smith to a one-year suspension, they seem like a pretty good landing spot for Coples.
The former 16th overall selection out of North Carolina in the 2012 draft appeared in nearly every game over his first three seasons, starting most of them in his second and third season. He put up 16.5 sacks over those seasons from the rush outside linebacker position.
This offseason the the Jets changed coaching staffs and Coples found himself barely seeing the field (a total of five snaps on defense Sunday) and was ultimately released.
As with most Jets castoffs, the first place people expect him to land is Buffalo where his former head coach Rex Ryan is now. But if Ryan wants him, he would have to hope no one in the waiver order takes Coples ahead of him. The Bills are currently 23rd in the waiver order. The Raiders are ninth.
As far as cap money, that is not a big issue. He is due just $535k for the remainder of this season. That jumps up to $7.75 million next season, so Coples would have to have a hell of a six-game audition to earn a return next season.
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How the raiders can add variety to offensive game plan.....
http://m.bleacherreport.com/article...nd-raiders-add-variety-to-offensive-game-plan
http://m.bleacherreport.com/article...nd-raiders-add-variety-to-offensive-game-plan
Ray Ray is gone. Maybe Heeney will start.
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'The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced their semifinalists for the class of 2016 Tuesday. When the Hall of Fame announced their 108 nominees, there were seven former Raiders among them. With the trimming to 25 semifinalists, just one remains -- RB Roger Craig.
The six who were cut from the list were T Jim Lachey, G Steve Wisniewski, LB Matt Millen, CB Eric Allen, CB Albert Lewis, HC Tom Flores. These former players join an already long list of Raiders snubs.'
The six who were cut from the list were T Jim Lachey, G Steve Wisniewski, LB Matt Millen, CB Eric Allen, CB Albert Lewis, HC Tom Flores. These former players join an already long list of Raiders snubs.'
We missed out on Coples but got Lotulelei.
Raiders have signed LB John Lotulelei to the practice squad.
John Lotulelei is a very underrated prospect in the 2013 NFL draft. He's going to turn some heads when he gets to the NFL with his all around abilities. He can project well to multiple schemes and should be an asset both on special teams and within a locker room.
Raiders have signed LB John Lotulelei to the practice squad.
John Lotulelei is a very underrated prospect in the 2013 NFL draft. He's going to turn some heads when he gets to the NFL with his all around abilities. He can project well to multiple schemes and should be an asset both on special teams and within a locker room.
Hopefully there has been some good team meetings this week.
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We love a close game. A few times this year I have felt we have just been hanging in there but giving ourselves a chance none the less. This afternoon we should have comfortaly won. I'm still shaking my head surprised we got away with that.
Amerson was strong today and nice to have Roberts contribute the way he did.
Amerson was strong today and nice to have Roberts contribute the way he did.
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Positive steps this year. Highly competitive every game. Next year build on that, add some more talent, am expecting playoffs
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I tipped against us. You can thank me.
Roberts is the top rated blocking WR. Had some good moves today. Streater not getting a go.
Must be a relation of Rex Ryan.
Tennessee Titans coach Mike Mularkey thought the offensive holding call that went against his team at a crucial moment in a 24-21 loss to the Raiders was bad enough that he went public Monday with a concession from the NFL that the call was incorrect.
Aside from the holding call on B.W. Webb against Amari Cooper, Mularkey said wide receiver Michael Crabtree had a false start.
“The NFL said it was a poorly officiated play, and it never should have started,” Mularkey said at his weekly press conference.
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Tennessee Titans coach Mike Mularkey thought the offensive holding call that went against his team at a crucial moment in a 24-21 loss to the Raiders was bad enough that he went public Monday with a concession from the NFL that the call was incorrect.
Aside from the holding call on B.W. Webb against Amari Cooper, Mularkey said wide receiver Michael Crabtree had a false start.
“The NFL said it was a poorly officiated play, and it never should have started,” Mularkey said at his weekly press conference.
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- Now, I do not know much about the data in your second post, but your first post was pure mularkey.
Maybe now Hayden is no longer starting CB is not the priority it was. He can play another role. Maybe.
There is a DE Shaq Lawson who may be there for our first pick. Jr still hasn't said if he will go to the draft.
There is a DE Shaq Lawson who may be there for our first pick. Jr still hasn't said if he will go to the draft.
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Mack is becoming an absolute force.
Another good game. Not many mates.
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Carr had a real shit one.
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It was never "this year" my raider siblings. Despite all the frustration of this year, this team has been thoroughly competitive (bar week 1), and that BIG step was made this year to ESTABLISH a footing from which we can then make a leap from in 2016.
Despite Carr's flaws, we continue to build around him, a RB, a TE, some OL, DBs, and we'll be a team that strings together 4 wins together at a time, with a loss inbetween.
Basically, Carr is so Favre in the making. See it this year, but next year that will be more consistent.....as in he'll string together 4 great games then have a typical Favre day where he loses you the game with costly INTs. But then he'll regroup and look great for a few more wins, before having another INT-infested day.
More to the point....a team just needs someone credible at QB, someone with an arm and a good football brain, who can fling the ball about. We have that now. So just continue to add pieces on both sides, and 2016 will be a playoff year.
Long-term tho....JDR is very much like Fox. Conservative dependable types of coaches. They'll establish a foundation of competitiveness thruout their tenure. Teams under their leadership having 6-10 to 10-6 type years.
I'm not down on JDR, Carr, Cooper, etc....just growing pains, as we make a better fist of it next year. Once we establish 5 to 10 years of consistent competitiveness, the long-term future of the Raiders will be on the right path for an even longer sustained period of time. Much like what happened to Green Bay in the past that got them to where they are now, a team always in the playoff/contender conversation.
Despite Carr's flaws, we continue to build around him, a RB, a TE, some OL, DBs, and we'll be a team that strings together 4 wins together at a time, with a loss inbetween.
Basically, Carr is so Favre in the making. See it this year, but next year that will be more consistent.....as in he'll string together 4 great games then have a typical Favre day where he loses you the game with costly INTs. But then he'll regroup and look great for a few more wins, before having another INT-infested day.
More to the point....a team just needs someone credible at QB, someone with an arm and a good football brain, who can fling the ball about. We have that now. So just continue to add pieces on both sides, and 2016 will be a playoff year.
Long-term tho....JDR is very much like Fox. Conservative dependable types of coaches. They'll establish a foundation of competitiveness thruout their tenure. Teams under their leadership having 6-10 to 10-6 type years.
I'm not down on JDR, Carr, Cooper, etc....just growing pains, as we make a better fist of it next year. Once we establish 5 to 10 years of consistent competitiveness, the long-term future of the Raiders will be on the right path for an even longer sustained period of time. Much like what happened to Green Bay in the past that got them to where they are now, a team always in the playoff/contender conversation.
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Is this likely
The National Football League could step in as the developer of a new Oakland Raiders stadium and surrounding development in a plan under discussion by the league and Oakland city officials.
The plan, first reported by Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal, could help Oakland hit a late-December deadline that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell set last week for Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis to deliver plans to keep NFL teams in their current cities or risk seeing them move.
The NFL could be the big entity that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has suggested could provide security for ground lease payments and game-day revenues from the Raiders that would be used to pay off new stadium bonds. Plus, the NFL would come in as a partner on a planned office, housing, retail and hospitality project — dubbed Coliseum City — that has stymied three other developers, most recently Floyd Kephart's New City Development LLC.
The National Football League could step in as the developer of a new Oakland Raiders stadium and surrounding development in a plan under discussion by the league and Oakland city officials.
The plan, first reported by Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal, could help Oakland hit a late-December deadline that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell set last week for Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis to deliver plans to keep NFL teams in their current cities or risk seeing them move.
The NFL could be the big entity that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has suggested could provide security for ground lease payments and game-day revenues from the Raiders that would be used to pay off new stadium bonds. Plus, the NFL would come in as a partner on a planned office, housing, retail and hospitality project — dubbed Coliseum City — that has stymied three other developers, most recently Floyd Kephart's New City Development LLC.
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You've broken it down really well. I think we need an additional RB, RG, RT, and then a bunch of guys on D specifically in the back 7 (secondary and linebackers). We have some nice pieces, but we have a lot of guys who aren't cutting it for us right now. We need to be able to get to a point where Carr doesn't need to be superman for us to win games. Right now, if he's even 5-10% off his best, we are toast. We will be competitive for a long time though moving forward which is exciting. Just need to keep adding great draft classes. We have 2 great classes in a row. A third will add 3 more impactful players on this team. Considering that we don't have a ridiculous amount of holes, and the fact that so many of our key players are young and will only improve, the potential for greatness is most definitely there.
Yeah this is nothing new. Matter of fact, this has been the NFL's position for a considerable time now. And this is the same in St. Louis and San Diego. The NFL was pretty quick to shut down this talk within an hour of it breaking online. Furthermore, the quotes from Mayor Schaaf highlight that not only has Oakland officials not discussed this in any detail with the NFL, but they have confirmed they won't have a stadium solution in place by the deadline of December 30. Come January 4, when the relocation window opens, the Raiders will file for it. It's now just a matter of whether or not the political game over the next month changes anything. Make no mistake, Kroenke is getting very edgy and has realised he's firmly behind in this race. It's why guys like Rapoport (an Inglewood supporter) mentioned how 200 acres across from Carson can't be acquired, even though they weren't apart of the Carson Project to begin with.
The best voice (apart from myself, ha) on this whole LA saga is Vinny Bonsignore. Look him up on Twitter. Very insightful, responds well with Twitter followers and he is one of the few people in the game who really projects the situation as a neutral media guy who just wants to see football back in Los Angeles.
