I disagree. If most of what I read is true, this team will be better off without him eating up a roster spot…without his presence in general.

Herrera came out this morning and said that indeed Russell was in Vegas, and that the Raiders knew it, and that he was accompanied by a Raiders official, for what reason he did not say. Do I believe that? I am not sure. All the things you stated are true, or at least appears to be true. We have all seen Russell, and from our perspective it seems he doesn’t care, doesn’t work enough etc. etc. But it is a great leap to say from that that he doesn’t want to be good. What happens in the next 6 months will tell us all. He has been booed, ridiculed, embarrassed etc. I find it hard to believe that a guy who was praised as the best on his team since he was 10 years old is not affected by this. Is he smart enough? No idea. Is he talented enough? I’m positive.
Does he have a shred of confidence now? No! We will now find out what Russell is made of. He hasn’t had a real opportunity to date, new coordinators, rookie receivers, and very poor work habits which is solely his fault.

JaMarcus clearly is one of those players that likes football solely for what it can provide him: i.e. money and fame.

He has zero work ethic or interest in the game itself. He is a physical specimen that used his physical attributes to secure a monster contract coming out of college without playing a down in the NFL. At this rate, he is set for life despite not needing to put an ounce of work into playing the game. Honestly, do you blame him? He won the genetic lottery and now he’s riding it for all it’s worth.

He’ll never be a good quarterback in the NFL. This guy was Al’s mistake, and now the Raiders have to either cut ties with him or suffer through more terrible seasons.

It’s a shame really, because the Raiders could really be a contender if they even had a half-decent quarterback, as that stretch of games with Gradkowski showed. McNabb might be done in Philly after this season – imagine if you guys traded for that guy, what he could do with speedy receivers like Heyward-Bey…

is that Russell has been universally ridiculed. Nothing motivates a player more than that, so now we will see who Russell really is. Is he who we think he is? Lazy, arrogant, not motivated, too dumb to play QB? Or is he a guy who was never taught properly, came into a situation where he was mishandled, poor receivers, then rookie receivers, then a poor line to help him out. Make no mistake, early in the season he didn’t have Schillens and his receivers were either running wrong routes or dropping passes they should have caught. Russell made the mistake of pointing that out which seemed to us he wasn’t taking responsibility for his own mistakes. We are used to QB’s blaming themselves even if it is not their fault so we expected him to act the same way. Couple that with what Cable had been saying for a year, Russell wasn’t preparing properly for the games. Add a few undocumented stories about his off field activities plus pictures of a guy in a fur coat with diamond ear rings and jewelry from his neck and we all filled in the blanks. Up to this point everything he has done has been wrong. Kind of reminds me of Vince Young, or Matt Leinart. You hear rumors that he is hiring a private trainer to get into shape, true or false? Hell, I don’t know but that would be a good first step. If I read that he is in Alameda in Feb. looking at film and working with Hackett then that would be a good 2nd step. Add DHB and Murphy to the mix, and then we might have something. Far too early to dump him quite yet. Let’s see what the next 5 months hold for Russell.

You know most of us if not any have really thought that maybe Russell is going through something deep down inside, like an emotional issue. I mean being the #1 pick in the draft you are seen as the savior, the answer to the problem, now thats a heavy ass burden. He’s not only the #1 pick in the draft, but he’s a QB, and a QB for a team thats had great success but that has been struggling for years, and Raiders fan are know as pretty tough ass fans. haha

I think you are right though, he doesnt seem to really want to play because he cant handle the pressure. This isnt a fun game to him anymore but a job he is definitely failing at. His talent is beyond incredible but he needs to want to be the best but he cant be without making the effort. Once he finds the desire and love for the game he will be amazing but till then he will forever be a bust.

He has the size and we are already paying him the money this is what we should do with him in the offseason.

We Should completely humiliate him.

to play in the DITCH. his little skinny puss fingers and hands couldnt handle an oline job, he cant even hang onto a football with his weak hands and fingers

JaMarcus Russell is a prime example of why you did give rookies insanely huge contracts with guaranteed money.

Should the contract have been incentive based? Hell yes. Would JaMarcus be playing better if it was? Maybe a little.

Timmy Chang is unemployed. AND he has priors! Which we require for our Raiders.
’member? the all-time college yardage champ?