It is hard to even evaluate him when our O-Line can’t block and receivers can’t run their routes right. On the rare occasion where those to go right, Russel misses the target or the receiver drops the ball. If we don’t draft offensive line in the first three rounds of the draft this year, there needs to be a sanity check in the front office.

…week 5 and i’m already talking draft…this just sucks.

as much as i hate to admit, i didn’t expect much from us against the giants. top 3 team against a bottom 5 team will probably be not fun too watch.
but i still think we can pull it through! they need chemistry with russel(the WR’s), and we have to play turnover free football. our defense needs to come out of their shell and start playing like san diego. they need to be physical, and have that swagger back!
i don’t want to see them play as if they’re giving up. that’s not how a re-building team should act. bring you talents and win some games!

i believe mcfadden is a great RB, but i haven’t seen too much plays from him that should be expected of him.
Rankin and russel(gary) seem to have more chemistry looking at the pre-season than mcfadden does, and they seem to have all the tools RB’s need to be great.

what would you guys think if we start rankin and/or russel over mcfadden? McFadden as wildcat option?

i’m probably just being stupid.

Seahawks roster now, so that is academic. Please explain why Fargas gets 12 carries averaging 1 yd. a carry and Bush gets an equal amount averaging 3 yds. I am starting to believe that Cable is responsible for much of what is going wrong, why is he calling plays? They are presently unwatchable, thank god, this week will be a blackout, as will the following week’s game.

In 2011 where is Jamarcus Russell?…..he is exactly where I knew he’d be the day the Raiders drafted him….he is home counting his money and out of football. A horrible horrible pick. If on that fateful day the Raiders found someone, and there were a few teams looking to trade up, to take their pick in exchange for a couple lower picks and a pick the following year, the Raiders would probably be at least competitive now instead of a disgrace beyond what the Lions were last year. I told everyone I knew when the Raiders picked Russell that he would be going the Vince Young route…a bust, a waste of millions….he has no heart, he has no interest in winning….I’ll take a guy with half the supposed talent and a big heart over some lug with none. In August I told everyone I knew “the Raiders are going to smarten up and Jeff Garcia will be their starter, just wait”….then a few days later they cut Garcia and it was at that moment that I knew the Raiders season would just be one embarrassment after another….and so it goes. It is solid proof that Al Davis has lost his mind…..how can he go out in public? how can he wear Raiders garb and have pride? Even the most diehard Raiders fans cringe each week when they wake up on Sunday morning wondering what horrendous embarrasssment awaits the day. I have been a Raiders fan since 1974 but being one has taken all the fun out of watching football the past few years….fortunately I am a fan of the NFL as a whole, so it is okay, but I can’t watch a Raiders game anymore. speaking of 1974, if Ken Stabler or Jim Plunkett are looking for a few extra bucks…..the Raiders have an opening….hopefully soon. Couldn’t be worse.

The Lions are now a competitve team just one year removed from 0-16….The Chiefs show signs of hope with a good young QB and some solid games….the Browns have been competitive in some of their games and beat a team in the Bill sthat some thought were wildcard bound at the start of the season….the Redskins show some sign of hope now and then….the Bucs, they have some stars on a teram that at least knows it has to rebuild….the Raiders?….if they disappeared from the NFL tomorrow a handful of players would land on other teams but they wouldn’t be missed except for a few automatic wins on division opponents schedules….can it get any lower? Can Al Davis see some ray of hope that nobody else can? Was Al Davis watching last night when Trent Dilfer proclaimed the Raiders as the worst team he’s ever seen in all his years watching the NFL? If he was watching, did that upset Al or has his brain lost it’s ability to register? Someone please tell Al Davis, the king, that he is not wearing any clothes. for the past few years the Raiders new slogan was “A Committment to Mediocrity”…now, fans long for the days of mediocrity.

I think i is the whole team yesterday I saw a high school team out there. I use to be able to say at least the pass defense is good they sucked too now. I think they need to fire everyone and start over. The defense give you the same look ever time they line up I watched them play man defense on 3 and a mile the d line never uses stunts they just try to beat the man in front of them. Do they even practice during the week no one is even changing the way they play agianst them they just run off tackle and the linebacker over run play. they never rush more than 4. I can’t think of one good thing about them

Cable won’t be arrested until the end of the season. Even if he is arrested he can easily get out on bail. Al Davis likes this drama so this won’t be the reason why he is fired or else it would have already happened. Davis may fire him and put Hacket in his place but that is career suicide for Hacket or anyone wishing to coach in the NFL. Oakland is a death sentence to any career as evidence over the last few seasons.
The Raiders will go into their bye week at 1-7, and should finish the season 1-16. If they do manage a win it I think it would only happen against the Browns. KC will get us the next go around as they are starting to show some life. We shouldn’t have beat them anyways because they really outplayed us. My guess is that the Browns will have put something together by then and will pull out with a horrible win. We play the Ravens the last game which might be a good thing because they should have already locked up a playoff spot. But I don’t have faith that we can beat back ups as we proved yesterday with the Giants. Chances are the Ravens will have their starters in anyways because they will be in a playoff fight do to the strength of their division.
I doubt Davis will fire Cable this season because he took a ton of heat last year for the Kiffin experiment. More or less, Davis made himself out to look like a dumbass!
Russell will be benched by the bye week only because the media and fan pressure will be to much. The fans are already on the path of revolting and Russell is booed at every home game. You can only subject a player to this madness for so much before they crack (see Vince Young). Russell is on the road, but I don’t think Russell really cares and Vince Young did.

I’ve been a Raider fan for 27 years, and this might be the lowest I’ve felt. I thought we might have a chance of proving everyone wrong after a good showing against the Chargers and a narrow win against the Chiefs, but we are awful. I love Al Davis, he has changed the game of football and is a Hall of Famer, but he is just killing this team now. It makes me mad that across the bay the Niners have an awesome Coach who is changing the losing culture and is motivating his players to overachieve. I know that it won’t happen in Oakland because Davis wouldn’t allow it to happen. Can you imagine if Singletary was our coach? He would have whooped Jamarcus into shape or kicked him out. Look at what he did with Vernon Davis…

I tried to justify the Heyward-Bey pick, but what does another raw talent guy give us at this point? We suck, and we’ll probably mess up this coming years draft. Is it bad that I’m already envisioning Colt McCoy as our future QB?

I think I have been one of the most optimistic Raider fans, but at this point I see no hope. Something needs to change, i.e. Al Davis needs to give up the reigns. If he doesn’t we won’t be able to get a high profile coach because no one wants to work under him.

We can’t pass the ball, which means we are 1 dimensional and teams are loading up the box, which takes away our ability to run. We can’t stop the run, We can’t stop the pass, and can we get a freaking Coach who will stop us from getting STUPID PENALTIES! My whole life I feel like we have been shooting ourselves in the foot with penalties.
We need a new QB, an experienced WR, a more tough OL, and more depth at DL. That is way too much to fix….sigh

I have lived life as a Raider fan for 30 some odd years now and have watched all the trials and tribulations throughout. I have never been and never will be a “band wagon jumper”, my wife always says “how can you stick with them when they are so bad, why not just get a new team?” I have always told her, they’ll get better, they’ll get better. I gotta tell you it is getting harder and harder to maintain this thought.
We have so many issues right now, things like: (in no particular order)
1. Al Davis
2. Coaching
3. Offense
4. Defense
5. Special teams
6. Water boys

Seriously, I will never, ever leave the Raider Nation, but it sure is hard to hold my head up very high right now. Its hard to look your friends in the eye and always say “yea, but think about the great draft pick we’ll have next year….”, like it is a sign of success.
Raiders Forever

ive been a raider fan for 30 plus years and will always be but i have to say mr davis was a great leader at one time now i dont think he has a clue how to run this team anymore, there is no magic salution to the raiders problems this year and im tired of watching our team perform on such a low level in almost every area with the exception of the kickers wich by the way was the only good draft pick in the last ten or so years by mr davis. we have very good talent on this team but its like anything in life without disipline or structure you fail.

I’m just loving making a killing betting against them! EVERYONE covers the spread against the Raiders! This is easy money!!

The FBI shows up at Raiders headquarters and arrests an imposter who’s been posing as Al Davis the past six years. At a press conference an FBI spokesman tells the stunned audience Al Davis had actually passed away in 2003 and this imposter has been using his indentity ever since. FBI also reveals Tom Cable was in on the scam.

i go into the game thinking that the raiders will have a chance to win it. but being a raider fan has been tiring over the last few years is hard. right now, i’m not comfortable with how our team is offensively, and some defensively. the talent we’ve been getting has not been helping over the last few years, and we can’t rely on the first rounders to get us a winning team. which leads to some draft talk.

first, our offense already has above average running backs, but that’s it. we need to get some draft picks for next year, and start drafting team needs that revolve around what the offense is trying to accomplish.
1) RT or LT: we need someone to protect russel’s blind side against elite pass rushers. get a tackle who has size and footwork with a great attitude to build chemistry with the other lineman
2) WR: I didn’t expect hey-bey to be great ever since we drafted him. when i heard he had trouble with his routes and hands, i thought he didn’t fill the need for an elite receiver for russel. ALL he has is speed. we need someone who is a great route runner, and has GREAT hands, and someone russel ca depend on. murphy and schilens has that, but i see murphy in the slot, and we need someone who can be elite opposite of schilens who can make the catches.

I think russel will be more noticed(along with his runners) if he has the correct talent that fits HIS needs. with an arm like his, you NEED someone who can CATCH! and not just have speed. jerry rice ran a 4.50 at his combine after all.

On defense, i think we have the pieces there but we just need that LITTLE something to get it going.
1)DT or DE: we need a BIG playmaker in the middle with kelly, or opposite of seymour. for DT, we need mostly just need a BIG fella who also has speed, like our own wilfork(6’1" 300 something pounds). pressure up the middle is crucial in our(raiders) defense, and is the most devastating. For DE, we need someone who can do both pass rush, and have the vision to stop the run. someone with speed will be nice, but strength is the most important, along with vision.
2) LOLB or CB: i don’t know which is more important; a nickel corner, or a strong-side LB. maybe strong side LB so when someone runs towards the left side, we can have someone who has the vision, speed, and tackling ability to pursue. but being smart is the most key aspect to any LB. i think we can find a nickel corner in FA.

Right now, i think we should try to go for the 3-4 next year. there’s a chance that we might have the personnel next year and if we do, i say go for it. we can disguise blitzes, and teams will have more trouble passing down short-mid range with more LB’s in the middle. not to mention OLB in a 3-4 are supposed to be specialized in pass rushing. I ca see a 3-4 with us. even with someone as smart as kirk morrison might make the transition easily.

our team at the moment has a mess of talent, and i believe the reason why we’re not performing well is because that our talent does not go well together. j-russ has a strong arm, but no receivers have great hands to catch such a strong arm(besides schilens and maybe murphy. Miller if want to count TE’s). neither j-russ or mcfadden have a dependable o-line. they have a running attack, but they cannot establish that well at the moment due to o-line run blocking, and run the whole game. we need to get talent that can compliment another player with talent, that can compliment another player with talent, and so on and so forth. make each talent compliment another, and not have a single talent being displayed on each play.

and it was worse than it looked on TV. I’m trying to figure out how a QB can fumble 3 times and stay in the game. I’m trying to figure why the starting QB is still in when the score was 31-7 at the half. The team has no fire. They don’t play with any passion. Let’s face reality, if some of us haven’t: the season is done. My fiancee (who is a Giants fan) told me that Eli would be sitting by the half. She told me this when we were on our way to the game! Sad, sad, sad. That’s the way this team looked, and that’s what this team is: just plain sad.

Did you see that pass by Sanchez? Russell couldnt do that if his life depended on it. And to think he only has 4 games under his belt.

How is Cable qualified to call the offensive plays? It’s too much for most head coaches, he ain’t no genius or guru, he looks lost, like he’s making it up as he goes along. The offense is pathetic, predicable, and boring. When I see his idiot face on the tv screen I just want to hit something. How did he get the promotion from offensive line coach to head coach in the first place? I don’t remember having an outstanding offensive line, all I remember is the same stupid penalties year after year.
Fargas, does he even look for holes? It seems like he’s running with his head down and just runs into the first tackler. Not an NFL quality player. What is Cable looking at?
JR is just too bad for words. Why not pull him when you are already down by 28? What have we got to lose? How can we evaluate the offense with one dubious QB? On the sideline JR seems much more concerned that his hat is on just right, rather than talking to other players/coaches. When he went down on a “phantom sack” during the Chiefs game that may have been the sign that his career won’t amount to much. When Jim Everett (Rams) went down like that, with no one touching him, that marked the end of his career.
WR’s we need at least one sure handed veteran, you just can’t go with all rookies, speed isn’t everything, you still need to catch the ball.
On Defense the stupid penalties killed them, twice on the first drive they had the Giants in 3 and long and let them off with the usual offside calls, etc. Every year the hard count fools ’em, I have never seen another team fall for that time after time.

Chad Henne is better than Jamarcus Russell….What a disgrace

  My only hope for this season is a dramatic event (i.e. Al Davis’s private plane crashing into Cable’s house) that injects some passion into our lifeless Raiders. I live in New York so this week has been extremely difficult. I found myself rooting for the Giants defense, hoping they would take him out for the season. Instead we took Eli out by handing out 28 straight points….doesn’t that equal our season total TD’s? As a long time Raiders fan the only ray of light is the ever dependable Janikowski, sadly after week 5 still our leading scorer. Here to hoping Skeletor gets sucked into the Black Hole along with his trophy QB

Face reality, Raider Nation. Al Davis is the constant the past 7 years. He has lost touch with the NFL. He has no idea how to pick a QB and no idea how to draft linemen. His downfall began when he had to show Marcus Allen who was boss. What kind of man would do this? A low class snake-in-the-grass. He had the world at his feet, but his reality told him to leave Oakland for LA. It turned out to be a fatal move, and it’s been downhill ever since. Al Davis is the only CANCER in the organization. I hope all Raider fans who have support the TEAM in spite of this bum, stop! I already paid up for this season, but I am finished until a new owner comes in to try to win football games. Not some egotistical jerk that is more interested in lawsuits and messing with people’s minds than winning football games.

How does one live being the most hated person in his universe? I think only John Madden believes in this old tyrant. Why? What owner would trade his best Head Coach in 20 years for cash? Al Davis. Which owner would trade one of the best receivers in NFL History for a 4th round draft pick? Al Davis. Which owner would blame everybody but himself for bad decisions? Al Davis. Which owner would draft a kid 7th overall that he could have picked up much later? Al Davis. Which owner would draft a kid in the 2nd round that he could have drafted in the 5th round? Al Davis. Which owner would pay Javon Walker a boat load of cash and sit him for no good reason? Al Davis. Notice a pattern fans. Al Davis is a LOSER!

Even though I won’t attend the game, I hope Bruce Gradkowski gets a chance to play. Russell’s career is already over. Look at the 2 kids that played in the Monday Night game. Does anybody with average intelligence believe Russell will ever be that good? Of course not. He was given 30 MIL because he could throw the ball 80 yards from his knees. What an investment! It is already a proven fact that the kid is lazy, has poor eating habits, and has no competitive fire! I know the 30,000 fans that do show up on Sunday will be chanting, Bruce! Bruce! Bruce! I believe Gradkowski would at least make the games competitive.

Yes the WR’s are young and the O-Line needs to play better BUT the main problem with the Offense is J. Russell. I say lets just put in the 2nd string QB and see what happens. I’m sure you will see the Offense play better and they will be able to move the ball down the field. McFadden is a good back but the Raiders need to allow him to move out in the flat and catch more balls while they use bush and Fargas to pound the ball.

Jraider, I agree with your last post.

I wish Al Davis would see as well about J. Russell and letting Gradkowski start. For some reason Cable don’t have the balls enough to bench Russell. Funny Cable talks about execution but he continues to start Russell when its clear that Russell does not have the desire to get better or to even play he has his 30 mil money and he is just going through the motion.

WoW, Just Found out that Cable calls the offensive plays.

That could be one of the biggest reason why Russell looks so bad.
now I see why he is sticking with Russell he is calling the plays.
15 pass plays last week when you are down 28 plus points, you would think the raiders would have pass 50 times in that game which they should have.

Cable must go!!!!!!
Bring in a QB coach that can work with Russell on his work ethic.
Start Bruce until Russell gets better during his work with the QB coach.
Defense is ok, just play less man to man coverage.
Offense pound with Bush and Fargas and use McFadden in the flats for passes.

If nothing else starting Gradowski might provide some entertainment. When I have a co-worker who says he watches the Raiders games for “comedy relief” I just cringe, but unfortunately he does have a point. So how much worse could Grads., do out there than JRUSS??

i’m gonna say JaMarshmallow loses the next one, goes home with two buckets of Popeyes, three Taco Bell burrito 10 packs, and is found on the floor of his apartment the next morning, smeared in his own feces & eating his throwing hand. He absolutely should be benched, and fined heavily til he starts really working at being a bottom tier NFL QB. J-russ has had it easy since high school, never had to try at anything, just coasted on ability….. well now he is seeing that ability gets u CRAPPOLA in the bigs, u gotta want it, and u gotta work for it. This game is rough, us as THE RAIDER NATION are rough, and if you wanna be a Raider and be a LEADER, u better get rough, fatboy…. Quit worrying about what effin tattoo ur gonna get this week and watch some effin film of the D thats about to plant you on yer a$$….

Al Davis. The Raiders will start winning again when he is gone, however that happens. His overbearing, narcissistic, underwhelming ways have driven this once great franchise into the ground, and I cannot bear to watch this embaresment of a football team. You go and nit pick it all apart, go over films, replay the games, match the x’s and o’s, but the bottom line is at the top of the organization. I am so sad at all of this. I have been a Raider fan as long as I can remember, and that was well before their first super bowl win. They will not get close to another until Al is gone.

Al Davis dies, the minority owners sell the Raiders to a group of Irish businessmen who move the team to Dublin, and they instantly become the NFL’s first international exspansion franchise. They are renamed the Raiding Leprechauns, and their asses get kicked regularly by street thugs in northern Ireland. Jamarcus Russell throws out his arm by overthrowing a dirtclod at a thug in southern Dublin. And no one cares. The End.
 That or Oakland falls into the Bay.