Oakland Raiders: Grim Injury News

I think we should sign Tatupu and Morrison and have them battle it out for groves spot, loser backs up McClain.Also sign Darren Sharper, with Brown and Boyd playing bad and Mitchell injured, we need a solid backup.

Well, the organization ignored a clear and present problem that is now a full-blown disaster.

I can only imagine how the lockout is going to effect the NFL season. This hurts but this nothing compared to NY giants. Both starting DBs are out for the year!

I just hope Hue Jackson’s Bullying Progam isn’t back firing. Cause it’s a long long season. I’d hate to lose it because of injuries.

Chirs Francis and Bruce Davis are fodder, Bani Gbadyu is only slightly better, Quentin Groves, Darryl Blackstock and Sam Williams are sub mediocre and Wimbley is just okay. I’d trade the lot of them (except Wimbley) for Mason Foster

gaining a guy like lofa tatupu or Kirk Morrison would be even better. If only we could sign both and drop Quentin Groves….

http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post/_/id/31080/raiders-likely-to-pursue-vet-lb

A player of his caliber (5 straight 100+ tackle seasons before last year) usually would have been signed a long time ago, and it’s not like he’s coming off an injury like Tatupu.

"If I’m asked by the organization, if they want me to do it, I’ll do it," Pryor said. "But the only reason I’m not doing it is there’s other great players on the field, and I don’t want to be selfish and have attention on me when it doesn’t need to be."

Pryor said he is eager to join his new teammates.

"As soon as my agent, Drew Rosenhaus, him and the Oakland Raiders organization get that contract done, then they want to fly me out," Pryor said. "I don’t know why we’re waiting, but that’s what was said yesterday. I’m just waiting to hear the news and as soon as I hear it, I’m going out."

I think that maybe they are not rushing because they dont want to disrupt the team in the middle of the week of practice leading in to the most important preseason game. The other thing we have to remember is that we didn’t even know we were getting him until yesterday the coaches probably havent really even had a chance to work out properly how they are going to handle him.

“BLTN Raiders practice notes: Overheard from assistant coach: ``Put a helmet in his nuts and push him back!’’”

Raiders | Kirk Morrison, Lofa Tatupu on radar?

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:35:54 -0700

Oakland Raiders head coach Hue Jackson said Tuesday, Aug. 23, that it is conceivable that the team will check into signing either free-agent LB Kirk Morrison (Jaguars) or Lofa Tatupu (Seahawks).

Raiders | Will end yearly preseason game against SF

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:48:56 -0700

The Oakland Raiders will stop their annual preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers after a shooting incident following their preseason game Saturday, Aug. 20, which left two people in critical condition. The NFL and local police are said to be in favor to stopping to yearly game.

Read more: http://www.kffl.com/team/28/nfl/oakland-raiders#ixzz1VwSdfI00

Talk about not having the proper tools to solve the question. To cancel the game and punish the fans is the wrong way to go. I really hope both Raider and Niner fans will protest against this load of utter bullshit

The Raiders received great value by selecting Pryor, and I’ll throw out a guarantee that Pryor has a more successful NFL career for around $60 million less than JaMarcus Russell ever had.
 Bleacher report , really going out on a limb again. Hope they are right.

This forces the Raiders to go out and do what they already should have done, upgrade the LB core. We just hear about Goethel’s potential, come game time I’ve never seen it regardless of injury or whatever. If the Raiders take the next man up approach then were screwed. I don’t think they will, they should bring in 2 more LB’s.

Could be a great blitzer lol