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Raiders have no option!


This year's crop of free agency talent, most believe, is the best talent wise for some time. Lots of top end players, all of whom will do well for themselves in the market.

Last year marked the end of the Raiders deconstruction and the beginning of the rebuild. In free agency it was a mixed bag for the Raiders, lots of veterans on short term deals, some who worked out and some who didn't. At the time Reggie explained he needed a lot of role players and depth. I think it's fair to say the Nation was relatively underwhelmed with his efforts, particularly when you factor in the departures.

This season Reggie has stated he needs less bodies coming in on free agency. And, what he is really looking for are high impact players who can come in and start and make this team very much better straight off the bat. We all know who are the high impact players who will go to free agency, not all sadly because some will be tagged, but still plenty left.

However there are plenty of teams who will be able to afford one of these players, even if only a few teams like the Raiders can afford several of them. The competition will be very tough for their signatures, particularly for teams not expected to contend. If the Raiders are not careful these players will be spread out between the 15-20 teams who can afford one of them.

Knowing that we will be unsuccessful on a number of these players, I believe the Raiders only option is to aggressively persue every single one of them. Using the basis of putting an exceptionally big net in the water will/should net us our fair share of this free agency catch. This would be my strategy, sit on the phone, morning, noon and night to their respective agents and chase them down.

To my mind this is the only way we have a chance of winning in this free agency an giving our talented youngsters a top quality set of incomings with which to work with and take us to the next level and beyond.