but give him some time to see. We only wanted him to be good enough to get that eight guy out of the box, and to take advantage of a deep ball when the eighth guy stays there too often.

For real? Not sure what that even means, because there’s no verdict out on him that he’s very good or anything, but capable of winning some games. I think so.

Hats off to the D, and Brandon Myers on that key strip and recovery. He and Murphy are the best thing to happen to us this year. Big ups to Tyvon, and Routt for making up for his bad to make a big stop in the backfield today.

Look forward to more turnovers from the D if Bruce can be just good enough to convert and allow us to at least get close in time of possession.

Gradkowski is the man, mobile, accurate, disciplined and, most importantly, a warrior. I just returned from the best game all year and I’ll tell you the two biggest weaknesses on this team, Bey and Morrison. Our defense overall is fine, but just like the key player on the O we’ve got a real dud at MLB. Had the glasses on him after he missed a couple of tackles which and what I saw was piss poor – consistently out of the action, missed tackles, shoelace attempts and blown coverages over the middle in, at least, three separate 3rd and long situations that Cincinnati converted on. At least Bey made that sideline catch for the first down. Morrison used to play well on the outside … I’ll see him again on Thursday and against Washington and if he looks anything like today you’ll hear more from me.

While I don’t know if he’s for real just yet, let’s just see what happens in these remaining games. After that, we can evaluate the position and see what’s best moving forward.

If we can win IN Dallas, on a short week, I might start getting excited for the upcoming season..But for now, lets just be glad Bruce is here

I was overjoyed with the win, but Gradkowski’s performance was only a part of it.

17/34 (50%) is fair, but Gradkowski only had 4 completions to wide receivers, and 3 of those were on the last drive of the game, so the Raiders offense still relies heavily on Miller and the backs for receptions.

Russell had 29 pass attempts against KC before being pulled with only 8 receptions to show for it, but his receivers and backs probably had 10 drops on the day.

The biggest thing I saw Gradkowski do was on the Murphy TD: Gradkowski looked right, pumped, then looked left and fired to Murphy. I’m still a fan of Russell, but he needs to work on doing these types of things to help get his receivers open.

After a win, and with a short week ahead of them, Gradkowski is guaranteed another start next week.

Russell was sitting on the sidelines, on the bench with his headphones on. His Team had just tied the game and he was sitting there acting like he was watching his girlfirends little league football game. No interest in talking to Gradkowski or the QB coach, no spark of interest,… nothing. He is a complete Tool and obviously happy to cash the Raider Nation checks with no team loyalty what so ever. If I was a Multi-millionaire and I had to continue play this clown. I would NOT let him sit there and disrepect his team mates, the coaches, the fans and not to mention me (in this statement, Al Davis), all while being paid to be little bitch.

They are amazing not so much of DHB but Louis Murphy and Chadz are great and they are super young too can’t wait till they get to there 4th or 5th year we will had a great WR Tandem I don’t know about DHB but, he needs to relax and just catch the ball.

my assessment of him:

He’s very accurate, especially on those short throws to Miller. And with guys like miller and possibly in the future if he has one here, the speedy receivers in DHB and Murphy can turn his short throws into big plays (we saw Miller do that late in the game)

But he knows what’s going on around him and sees the field very well. Evading pressure, looking the defense off, making his reads quickly, this is stuff that elite QB’s do. Grad is far from elite, but he does all those things fairly consistently.

Grad is far superior to Russell and that game was the best I’ve seen of a Raiders QB since Culpepper or Collins. I really think he should compete for the starting spot next year. He’s clearly an NFL QB.

Bruce Gradkowski career completion pct. 52.9%
JaMarcus Russell career completion pct. 51.6%

Both of those rates are well bellow league average and as you can see Gradkowski isn’t much better despite the fact that he’s mostly played in a west coast offense that featured short passes.

I’m quite happy with the way Gradkowski played yesterday but to say He’s very accurate" is not backed up by the facts.

I think I’d like to see him play a few games before making any claims that he’s the answer at quarterback.

Well I suppose mostly they made fun of the Bungles, but they said on several occasions that Gradkowski gives this team “Hope”, meaning that the Raiders believe they have a chance to win with Bruce at the helm. That is very important to a team with culture issues but a lot of talent.

Bruce is the Man for this season, but we ought to look at drafting a QB like McCoy or LeFevour in April. Taylor Mays is a popular mock pick but it looks like Tyvon is manning the safety position just fine.

this game just showed that jamarcus really is the main problem with this team
the way gradkowski played today made me realize that with jamarcus benched, we can start winning games. i agree with the fact that we should draft a middle linebacker like brian kushing and move morrison. look what its done for the texans defense. the main focus should be on our o-line now. with that, good progession of gradkowski, and a talented receiver, we can have a high powered offense.

Brandon Spikes anyone?