Hiring Mike Leach Only Makes Sense If...

i voted no for leach but after readin of gettin tebow and utilizing what we have it made sense.however i would like to see the raiders return to greatness as the raiders not a nfc type spread offense. again however i dont want to stick with als ideas of football but just give bush carries a new qb give mcfadden touches and improve the dfense easy said but another words stick to smashmouth football!

As far as Mike Leach i have always loved his coaching style, his spread is one of the most high powered offenses in college football year after year. however the spread doesnt usually work well in the nfl. the problem is that the spread tries to create mismatches, it tries to get recievers open so that they can make one on one plays against corners in the open field. in the nfl everyone is fast, corners are rarely out of position and they can all make solo tackles. with that being said if we had a capable quarterback i think our offense would be one of the best spread teams in the nfl. all of our recievers are very fast and big. if we go 4 or 5 wide corners are going to have a tough time making plays on them all game our speed would just be too much. i dont think our current qb’s would be able to run the spread effectively bruce doesnt have the arm strenght and i cant see him taking 40 passing attempts per game. we would also need a tackle since Cornell Green is horrific at pass blocking. honestly why not give it a chance its not like our offense can get any worse then it is right now. draft sam bradford and lets make it happen.

as far as mike leach goes i cant see him and al coexisting for very long even if we are winning, mike is a weird dude and has a hard time getting along with the higher powers, i dont think he would take kindly to al telling him what to do.

I can see Davis bringing in Leach but not Tebow. In order to run the spread offense you have to have a strong armed QB, Davis is thinking he has one in Russell, and thinks Russell can thrive in leaches system. Thing is, in order to thrive in leaches system you have to get rid of the ball quickly most of the time and be able to read the field and that’s Russell’s weakness, he can’t do either one.

In other words, Davis would bring in Leach to save Russell from being a bust, but what is the chances of that happening unless the Raiders improve the Offensive line to be one of the best in the NFL and give Russell more time to find the WR’s instead of Russell laying on his backside the whole game. Sure Russell has the arm to play in the spread offense but that’s about it.

If Davis dose hirer leach you can bet Russell will be back next year as the starter, or until leach puts him in the electrical shed with a bag of popcorn just like Cable did. By that time the Raiders playoff hopes will be shattered again, just like this year.

Vote no on the spread and no on Tebow. We need a balanced offense that maybe functions like the west coast offense. Above all, we need a qb to run it and make throws. It was so sad watching Jamasskiss Russell for any length of time because he really does have the arm. He teases you with some of the throws and then when you are like, “Maybe this is the game he breaks out.” He goes and throws that interception that leaves the team in the lurch and he just shrugs and walks off the field. The big fat head that occupies the large helmet is a sad, pathetic brain with a skull protecting it. He just doesn’t care. I don’t care either Jamasskiss. You could be great if you just worked out and watched film. With his arm on just about any qb he would be great. Now if Tebow had his arm they wouldn’t be questioning his abilities at the next level. Read the book Building a Champion by Bill Walsh Al and get rid of the dead weight. I feel like the platoon in Full Metal Jacket and Al is Private Pyle. Al is making us run laps while he eats the jelly doughnut. Al needs a blanket party.

It won’t matter as long as Davis insists on Russell, DHB and a poor O-line to run it. Bill Walsh was 2-14 his 1st year coaching and waited to get the pieces to make it work. Calmer heads would at least give Cable a chance to develop the team. Every coach needs about 3 years to construct a team in his image of what would work. Cable is 1 1/2 into the process. I think this team made progress, but we won’t know if Davis fires him and starts over. If that occurs, I will ask myself again, why I am wasting my time with this team?

I say bring him as the offensive coordinator and take the play calling duties off Cable. I think implementing his offense with fierce running game to compliment it would make for a good offensive team. However, we still need a new defensive coordinator that can use what we got and make us at least a top 15 defense. We might just be good enough to have a solid shot at contending for a playoff spot!

Why not? Anything is worth a try at this point.

By hiring Mike Leech, Is it possible that Al would draft Tebow, and get the other needs later? to me, that would suck, but it would be interesting.

note- I don’t think Tebow will be an star like Matt Ryan is now.

Cable Stays as Head Coach !! Leach comes in as OC. Al hires a GM. Al let’s them do there jobs without interference( that’s a big one there). Tebow………. only if we can get him in the 2nd round…..ahhhh do we have a second round this year???? Far as the spread offense, it would’nt be a college spread with 4 & 5 receivers, but a 3 receiver set with McFumble on the move and Bush your lone back, like what they run in New Orleans. It could work but then the zone blocking scheme is out, which by the way is what Cable was brought in to teach in the first place. So there in itself is a conflict. We don’t need no damn conflicts !!!!! Spread offense demands 1 on 1 blocking, and sorry to say, we don’t have the lineman to do that. And truefully the Draft should be concentrating on Def. Tackles, then Off. Tackles, and nothing else. We can get by at most other positions, send Hiram (no tackling SS) Eugene packing and then the defense will look decent, well at least on paper, but I truely think much better following this recipe. Oh and back to new hires, A scouting dept. that anwsers to the GM, not Al, (sorry Al, your job is to sign checks, period !!!!!!). Praying for a new way of thinking and getting back to our winning ways !!!

Well first of all he is obsessed with pirates. So it’s either you guys, Tampa, or East Carolina. (Not sure if Seton Hall has a football team.)

Second, you guys who would not even entertain the prospect of having Coach Leach bring in his spead offense, (“The spread offense will never work in the NFL, we don’t have the personnel”) sound like guys who have been in prison for so long that you are afraid to live on the outside. You are more willing to accept certain doormat status than an opportunity to hire one of the brightest offensive minds in the sport and at least have the HOPE of winning.

Mike Leach isn’t just some brilliant wizard with weird, mad scientist schemes that seem to mesmerize opposing defenses into surrendering miles of real estate. He is first and foremost a COACH and by that I mean a teacher. He will (he does this to all Tech wide receivers) aim a tennis ball cannon at DHB set on (relatively) slow and make him catch 300 tennis balls a day until his hands are like stainless steel velcro. He will make JM run his buttocks up and down the stadium steps and throw 190 balls per practice until he begins to resemble a real quarterback. It may take a year or two, but he will groom an offensive line that will pass-block so well that even you could quarterback with a modicum of success. He will demand full-speed effort and near perfection from everybody in the organization, from the water boys on up.
I’m not saying he’s the next coming of Vince Lombardi, but he’s much, much better than what you’ve got.

intelligent coach wants to come to Oakland and watch his career die a slow painful death under the shaking hand of Alzheimer Al. As long as the breathing corpse is running things we only be able to attarct has-beens or 2nd rate wanna-be (Cable anyone??)…nobody with talent…A guy like Leach wants to run things HIS WAY.. and that will never happen with the walking life support machine in charge…