7 Golden Steps to the Super Bowl: Only Al Davis could pull it off
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 15, 2010 9:30 PM PDT
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Executing these 7 moves are sufficient to take the Oakland Raiders all the way to SB XLV:
Step 1: Draft Ndamukong Suh in 1st Round to play DT
Step 2: Draft Mike Iupati in 2nd Round to play OT (yes, convert him)
Step 3: Draft Patrick Angerer in 3rd Round to play MLB
Step 4: Reinstall 3-4 Defense (which Oakland used successfully in all 3 SB Championship victories)
Step 5: Ditch the Zone Blocking Scheme and Reinstall the pre-Kiffin Power Blocking Scheme
Step 6: Fire Cable and Hire Jon Gruden
Step 7: Get Michael Bush in top condition and rush him no less than 28 times/game
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Seven Steps to the Super Bowl
- Al Davis fires himself.
- Al Davis hires somebody other than himself.
- We switch offenses with the Indianapolis Colts.
- We switch defenses with the New York Jets.
- We get every rookie from the 2010 draft class.
- We qualify for the playoffs.
- We advance in every round of the playoffs.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 15, 2010 9:37 PM PDT reply actions
Are you exaggerating the negativity a bit much?
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 15, 2010 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
RRS for GM
I’m all for number 6 Blanda as I think the “trade” of Gruden to the Bucs was really one of the worst moves Big Al ever made.
That wasn't as much about the trade as the fact that Al couldn't share the spotlight.
Jon would’ve stayed, if Al would have released a little more control.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Stay +
OK yes its been tough the last few decades. But don’t kill the new year just yet. We may have some hope with FA pick ups and potential draft picks. I know JM and DHB haven’t worked yet but this year has to be the year they either come together or hopefully we cut ties and losses with them. I understand we are the joke of the league for giving kickers huge contracts (granted they have kept us in games) Let’s try to keep a little positive attitude until after draft day ends……….
by Cash Money Brothers on Mar 17, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey im all about chucky maaaan.
F indy id rather improve what we have and not think unrealistic stuff.. Gruden is realistic. Give it some time he’ll be back…that would be a crazy parade!!!
I even cum Black & Silver...
by Tramp "Raider Roxxxtar" on Mar 15, 2010 9:45 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Lupati would be great: But he will NOT be there in the second round
I am down with everything that you say, I just don’t think it is possible.
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Mar 15, 2010 9:58 PM PDT reply actions
Then again this is a Raiders win the Super Bowl in 2010-11 Thread so:
BRING IT ON!!!!
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Mar 15, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Where there's a will, etc. We wouldn't need the other picks - we go for it trading up bigtime for guys that get inserted
into the line-up immediately. No more projects, no more Veterans coddling and nursing the youngsters (isn’t that what good coaches do – teach, encourage, motivate, lead?!). These drafts are like a big fishing net that drags in fish, fowl, plastic bags, and drift wood – the majority of players get sifted-out anyway. If we’re shrewd and take only 3 guys, the right guys, that’s sufficient – more than sufficient. I’ve been watching film tonight and I’ve completely reversed my opinion on McClain – he’s not a warrior at all and he jogs to plays that aren’t happening near him (the DS syndrome!). I watched Angerer again and was refreshed with his savagery and passion – we must get him. Same goes for Iupati – a madman, a throw-back warrior from the land of Kush or Cimmaria. Damnation.
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 15, 2010 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
How do we get Suh?
What are we giving up?
We all love the Warriors..
We all hate Cohan as an owner of this franchise…
I hope we can do it for Seymour (now that we have Wimbley to join Shaughnessy and Richardson) Plus Kelly and Routt
if that’s not enough we throw in the 5th Round pick. Then we trade our 2nd and 4th Round pick for Iupati. Then take Angerer in the 3rd. Voila! 4 steps to go.
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 15, 2010 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd try
Our pick, Huff, maybe a 4th and 6th rounder and maybe a future conditional pick. I really like Seymour and I don’t want him gone. He’s a good veteran for the team
We all love the Warriors..
We all hate Cohan as an owner of this franchise…
Nobody would ever give up Suh for Kelly, Route,Seymour with no long term deal and a 5th
Even if we did all those steps we would not go to the superbowl. 3 players that haven’t played in the league yet don’t win superbowls, but i know what your getting at. The only step that is even possible is 3 but i hope we don’t even do that Brandon Spikes or Sean Weatherspoon should be our starting MLB next year.
Of course we're also giving them our 1st Round 8 pick for their 1st Round pick (1st St. Louis or 2nd Detroit).
But if the Rams don’t take Bradford and take Suh then we’re screwed. So make a deal with St.Louis (they want a QB, we give them 1st and 5th round picks, Kelly and Routt. Is that better?.
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 16, 2010 6:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Or, give St. Louis JaMarcuss - that solves their QB problem.
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 16, 2010 6:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Or...
we could just give Russell away to charity. Dress him up in all his bling-bling, shatter his ankles, and drop him off in Browsville Brooklyn for the locals pick him apart!
If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.
by Parental Advisory on Mar 16, 2010 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Angerer and Bush are the only remote possibilities here
As much as I’d love to jump on this bandwagon, the rest are but pipe dreams; but I am by no means mad at you for doing it.
"If your only ambition in life, is to be a better person; well, that's just the best ambition you can have..." Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew
Fantasy Football
These picks are fantasy football and won’t be there/won’t happen.
It is a bit of rosterbation...
but that kind of activity can save one’s sanity sometimes!
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Falls Apart
The wish list immediately falls apart in that it would would take at least a first and second rounder to trade up to get Suh.
by Mallard Davis on Mar 16, 2010 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Quiet...I am rosterbating
don’t blow it with your reality and stuff
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
disagree
no one would have thought that a championship, heisman winning qb like leinhart would fall as far as he did, considering he would have been a #1 overall the year before. It’s not like he stunk his sr. year, he was a heisman finalist and went to the national championship game and would have won if not for heisman hack reggie bush pitching when he should have taken the hit.
Of all these steps, step 7 should definitely happen
Is anyone else disgusted of wishing for athletes to get into shape. You are a fucking profesional athlete. This should not be a question or concern. Owners and coaches shouldn’t have to worry about guys showing up in shape.
If we are wishing for things, my wish is that any player that shows up out of shape gets cut on the spot. Use this capless year to ditch the losers and establish that atmoshpere of players that aren’t lazy dumbasses!
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
quite disgusted, thank you
and the fact that getting in shape gets national attention, is even more sickening.
"If your only ambition in life, is to be a better person; well, that's just the best ambition you can have..." Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew
Sorry
St. Louis isn’t that stupid.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 16, 2010 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I wish....
If these 7 steps were to happen the Raiders would be looking at a 13-3 season. That’s if we retain the services of Gradkowski as well.
If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.
by Parental Advisory on Mar 16, 2010 11:54 AM PDT reply actions
C'Mon
It aint all AL’s fault. ya need to blame greed.
by Silver and Blackaholic on Mar 16, 2010 12:04 PM PDT reply actions
I think
Davis will have a good draft this year.
Suh? screw suh...Its all about Linval Joseph.
1st: OT
2nd: Linval Joseph (NT)
3rd: Pat Angerer (LB)
4th: something Johnson (G) or Matt Tannert ©
Then Superbowl!!!!
(playoffs realistically)
The RaiderLaker
Hahahaha....ok, I feel you but what you seek will NOT get us to the Super Bowl...
You forgot to draft Okung, not Suh and get Peyton Manning, Boldin, and TO, yes TO to go with our fast wideouts, …
by Rodney Sacramento on Mar 16, 2010 1:54 PM PDT reply actions
soo glad i dont live in sac anymore, where the sun cooks your brains till u cant think.
I even cum Black & Silver...
by Tramp "Raider Roxxxtar" on Mar 16, 2010 6:54 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Something a little more realistic:
Get Jabba some classes with Jenny Craig.
How about 1 step to be respectable?
The only step I would take would be to become owner of the Raiders & hire a real GM with some success that knows what he’s doing. Floyd Reese had great drafts with Jeff Fisher & he doesn’t have a job. Everyone gave Charlie Casserly crap for drafting Mario Williams over Reggie Bush & that didn’t turn out so bad. He’s another guy who’s out of the league. I think best option would be to hire a guy like Tony Dungy to be president of the organization who is respected by the entire league & have him hire Chucky to be the coach/ GM with full control over final personell decisions. Actually that was 2 steps.
wow, so basically you’re hoping to use fairy dust for the first three.Everything else means we’d need to completely blow up the entire team, hire a coach, get 53 quality players, build some kind of chemistry, then try to win a Super Bowl doing this.
We’ll sooner win a Super Bowl staying with the same path we have now then destroying all of the work that we’ve done with this team
Evey- "Are you a crazy person?"
V- "I'm quite sure they'll say so."
V for Vendetta, blowing your mind away since 2005.
This wouldn't be as hard to accomplish as you think. Suh and Iupati are projected in the 1st Round and Angerer in the 3rd or 4th
we negotiate with all our draft picks for those key players and bolster the deal with non-essential players (e.g. Stanford Routt and Cooper Carlisle – even DHB is expendable).
We have the personnel for the 3-4 and John Marshal’s run it before with S.F.
The Power Blocking scheme is far easier than the Kiffin/Cable ZBS thing – especially for the newer guys; plus, we have a physically large O-line and PBS would put us on the attack instead of reacting to the Defense – which the ZBS requires.
Gruden is the hardest step in this staircase – I’ll admit that – but if Al wanted to he could win Chucky back rather easily b/c Gruden’s on record saying that he’d like to come back to Oakland.
…. and Bush gets 7 touches a quarter … what’s the big deal?
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 16, 2010 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I would trade for him
If Tony Dungy wanted the job I would give up a 2nd or a 3rd to get him. 1 less draft pick for us to F up.
There is no way Tony Would come to the Raiders. First off Tony isn’t crazy about fast guys that can’t play. Tony would draft cover 2 players that fit his system. I don’t know what AL Davis System is or Tom Cable. When you think about all the teams that are winning they have a top players on offense and defense we don’t have a top level player on offense. I know everyone is still amazed by the steelers game but people the chiefs also beat the steelers. I would love to have Tony cause no longer would we have to watch us miss takles or watch Routt give up 1st downs like he had a gun pointed at him. Right now we don’t have an identity this team needs the owner to give up some power.
You saw where I said if the team was to change owners
that’s where the hire would take place. I’m also saying make him team prez so he would put his stamp on the franchise.
Love the ideas...
but we lack fire power to make the trade with the Rams. Seymore is old and makes too much, and thinking anyone would want our trash (Kelly, Routt) in a trade is just crazy.
Gruden would never come back here, ever. Al would never have him back here, ever.
I wish we would re-instate the 3-4, but Al loves the 4-3 man press too much.
Cable believes in the zone blocking scheme (why i don’t know)
Could see 2,3 and 7 though!
"We can't stop here... This is bat country."
Gruden
Gruden has never burned his bridges and speaks fondly of his time with the Raiders. Al would NEVER pay him enough, but that is another post…
by Mallard Davis on Mar 17, 2010 7:45 AM PDT up reply actions
How about...
Since Cleveland seems to be unloading everyone at a low price, we could make a run at Shaun Rogers for a second rounder, or maybe a straight across trade for Seymore? Then we could effectively switch to the hypothetical 3-4.
"We can't stop here... This is bat country."
2nd rounder
Seymour is better than him right now. Give them a second rounder and 5th rounder and it will probably get done
We all love the Warriors..
We all hate Cohan as an owner of this franchise…
Both in decline but I'd swap straight accross for Rogers whose faster than Rich and a strong 350 pounder
But Holmgren is on a radical youth movement for the Browns and Seymour doesn’t fit his post-puberty model … still, Shaun Rogers is entering his 10th year and doesn’t fit Holmgren’s model either – anywhere but sports Holmgren’s age-discrimination would land him in court.
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 17, 2010 6:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Shaun Rogers - NT Cleveland (too old for Holmgren now)
among other things – he was named to two Pro Bowls 7 sacks in 2007 and returned an interception 66 yards for a TD vs. Denver …made an impact on special teams throughout his career and has blocked 11 kicks, including 10 field goal attempts and 1 PAT.
It's all within reach - no special effects or deus ex machina - just Al doing what's best
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and … not even two measures – but sublime music it would make
by Sons-of-Blanda on Mar 17, 2010 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions
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