Oakland Raiders News: At This Point, No News = Good News:

by saint on May 30, 2008 1:07 PM PDT Comment 4 comments

Other than Gary Peterson's lame attempt to revamp the Lane Kiffin firing talk, there is no real news coming out of Raider Land here in Alameda and THAT is a good thing.

There are no sordid accusations, or rumors of hirings OR firings. There are no discontents that we don't know about stealing the headlines. There is no player bashing going on from the head coach, and that is just as it should be this time of year.

Can it be that the Raiders have become a functional organization in only two off-seasons? I think so.

Al has reeled in his young coach who started to throw his 170 pounds around after going 4-12 and making some rookie coaching mistakes and he has also revamped this team with some seriously talented players.

Sure, there are question marks about the health of many of the large off-season acquisitions, but there is NO BAD NEWS about their injury status...YET.

This could just be the calm before the storm, but I seriously doubt it. I see this team as having a serious shot to do something special this year and I think that the entire organization sees that as well.

I mean, how can you not be excited about adding Darren McFadden to the offensive backfield and having JaMarcus under center from Day One?

How can you not be excited about the offensive line going into their second year under Cable?

How can you not be excited about adding DeAngelo Hall and Gibril Wilson to our defensive backfield and knowing that we will no longer have to see #30 wiffing at LTs ankles?

How can you not be excited about losing "The Great Pretender", Jerry Porter, and replacing him with Javon Walker?

At this point, we can still be optimistic and I hope that the tide lays low until the Monday Night Game against Denver, because IF it does, we will be sitting on the verge of something VERY special.

Go Raiders!!!

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No news...

Carefull what you say. Wont take long for the pot to get all stired up.

I live, breath and breed Silver and Black!

by sabp on May 30, 2008 4:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree with you Saint

There is a lot to like about this team, and I for one don’t worry about injuries, it is not something you can concern yourself with, in football it happens. The key to the season is not the D line as everyone says, it is JaMarcus Russell. If he performs well then everything else falls in place. Everyone trashes the defense but from where I sat they were asked to do the impossible last year and that was to hold every team to one TD or less. I think there were at least 5 games where the Raiders didn’t score a TD in the first half. Kiffin tried to run a lot so as to milk the clock and keep the defense off the field but in reality if you don’t score what difference does it make? You have to believe that the defense got tired and discouraged game after game with no offensive support. If Russell can get us into the end zone then the defense will be more fired up and will play better, that is what I think anyway.

by Laoren on May 30, 2008 8:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's nice to focus on the positives.

Hater columnist are just mad that less learned people in the bay area (like whiner fans) are catching up to how stupid their reportings really are.

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on May 31, 2008 12:43 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

o/l-d/l OUCH, no help from the draft

I think the team will be improved but I was disappointed that we did nothing to improve either line. The players from last year have proven they are not nfl caliber. Cable does a good job on run blocking but there is another part of the game called pass blocking that he has done very little to improve. Jamarcus is going to be pressured whenever he trys to pass. Teams know he wants to roll out but this isn’t college and you don’t get to do what you want in the NFL. The defenses on passing downs will keep Jamarcus in the pocket because everyone knows we do not have the ability to pass block with the current roster. Harris,Gallery, Green is your basic pass blocking weakness. You make the call>

by Raider Country on May 31, 2008 7:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs