Not Enough Raiders in ESPN's Top 200

Huff is ok (has lots of room for improvement, his potential corner skills could be very usefull to us this season), if Kelley & Routt perform as well as they did last season or better then much respect is due.

ESPN and NFL Network will never respect the Raiders until they start winning. The only reason the Raiders have been on either network’s radar is drafting Pryor. If you watch, they report on the same teams over and over and the elite players and mostly east coast teams.

but, I’m truly hopeful that the team, players and coaches, uses all the oversight and negativity comprising recent Top 100’s, 200’s and all else as motivation to make the pundits who post or write such obviously biased quibble eat their words. GO RAIDERS!!!

who, essentially, believes that because Terrelle Pryor went to the Raiders and Al Davis his career is doomed. In any event, I had to send him a comment:

Please, I can’t see the personal connection, but where does your hatred for the Raiders and Al Davis come from? Are you simply one of those negative bandwagon jumpers, like many others who have relished the adverse consequences of several personnel selections that just didn’t pan out the way some had hoped for the Raiders and, for the most part, led them down the recent path of mediocrity? I get the distinct impression that you believe T Pryor would be successful anywhere but with the Raiders, and that is totally disingenuous and ignores the positive coaching changes in Oakland and the truly impressive credentials those new individuals bring to the table. The Raiders, thanks to Al Davis’ decision making, have come together in a very positive way via some excellent personnel moves in both the player and coaching categories. And, by all accounts, AD is very rarely in attendance at practices and drills this season which certainly leads one to believe that he is fairly comfortable with what he has put together … a comfort that really hasn’t been seen since Jon Gruden was coach. In a nutshell, I believe your assessment of the Raiders ability to nurture the highly-gifted physical attributes and talent of Terrelle Pryor are seriously misplaced. Had this been 3-5 years ago your beliefs may have actually held some water, but you too late with all that because this is a team that is changing for the positive, and the positive aspects of that change will translate onto the field for the team as a whole and for the career of TP as an individual player. I’ve been a Raiders fan since 1966. I’ve seen the good and the bad, but I’ve paid enough attention to it all to know that your present assessments do not apply to the team as it is made up today. It’s a serious mistake to think that the Raiders were destined to stay in the land of mediocrity forever, despite the fact that many haters would certainly enjoy nothing more than just that. Al Davis is far shrewder than many of today’s criticizers may imagine, and he has taken many necessary steps toward placing his team back in the position of being a winner. Terrelle Pryor is just another part in what I and many others believe will be a successful team, and he is a part that will make his presence felt in Oakland and the NFL because of Al Davis’ vision, experience, and willingness to exercise a degree of daring in his draft scheme. Really tired of hearing how this one or that one was drafted only because of his speed. In Pryor’s case, if the pick were just for his speed, how is it that he is such a prolific winner? Certainly, you don’t believe that speed all by itself translates into success? Also really tired of hearing about J Russell and how that was an AD mistake. Russell was projected to be a successful QB in the NFL by many who claim to be knowledgeable about the NFL and football, it wasn’t just AD that was burned here. And, don’t go blaming JR’s troubles on something the Raiders did or didn’t do, the guy was destined to be a bust wherever he went because of one reason only … his very own selfish lack of respect, for the game and himself. Don’t think you’ll be seeing that this time … no way. shape or form. GO RAIDERS!!!

Really tired of all the garbage people will print, based solely on matters of the past, and I hope the coaches and players are too!

Interesting

Both inconsistent but Routt more so, Kelly got hosed

ESPN sucks. They’ll show 55 fucking minutes of Fivehead Manning, Brees, Brady and Phyllis Rivers…the Raiders blow out the donkey-dicks 59-14 and we’re lucky to see 10 points worth of highlight film.
My wife will laugh and tell me not to blink when I watch SportsCenter post games or I’ll miss the Raiders. That’s no shit….easier to go to NFL.com or Raiders.com to see highlight vids.

They have been haters it seems forever, even when we were winning consistently they looked for reasons not to show our highlights.. I don’t even watch espn unless they are playing a game I want to see, I don’t look at any of their programming…NFL Network is where I get my info and online…We are building a good team now, we are young, fast, and I can see our skill level improving. If we can get our LB play and QB play up to par and our receivers don’t drop passes, we are going to the playoffs….Go Raiders…