Return To The RAIDER-FORUM
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/281 ... th-raiders
They bought in out there, almost the whole team, and really outplayed their talent level to end the year. The seniors had a blast with him too.
We have some holes, but we can plug a good amount for sure. 4-12 will likely be our worst record under him, and I think we lucked out getting him.
Next year will be tough, but you don't forge steel with water. Every rookie he brought in has zero quit, that will be a big part of every draft from here out.
He rolled the dice, good, keep doing it. This year, we have maybe three times the cap to work with (after cuts), and three extra first round picks coming up as well (plus a saved 40 million worth of FA). To me, 4-12 with maybe 5-8 guys playing above league average, some just barely, it was actually impressive.
I am not saying we see .500 next year, but if we get the QB situation resolved, I doubt we see less than .500 for the next several years following. This new core of all out players, plus all those FA's and two Mayock drafts including 5 first rounders, the chance of us greatly improving our talent level is basically guaranteed.
I saw enough to feel pretty damn good about it. The last quarter of the year is the team I am looking at only.
I will add this, Guenther's D handled KC's misdirection better than the Colts. That is how you beat Reid, I like Pauly G too.
We purged the team. Gruden oversaw getting pretty much nothing in the draft or FA last year. He made weird choices with not playing our younger players until later in the year. This is all bad, real bad.
Mayock was hired.
Now the hope is Mayock has a great eye for talent, Gruden will listen, and we will get lots from the draft and FA. It could happen. But there is zero track record for any of this.
This draft and FA will tell the tale of this franchise for the next half dozen years.
CJ Anderson "Jon Gruden is doing the Right Things With Raiders"
-
deathstar
Posts: 2,911
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2014 7:54 pm
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/281 ... th-raiders
-
Jeremyturner1976
Posts: 2,263
Joined: Tue Aug 28, 2018 3:26 am
- Jeremyturner1976
- Posts: 2,263
- Joined: Tue Aug 28, 2018 3:26 am
- Has liked: 3413 times
- High Fived: 1425 times
I really enjoyed the read.deathstar wrote Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:12 pm:CJ Anderson was a Raider for less than a week but was complimentary about Jon. I like the signing before the fact but glad he is on a Superbowl team and not the donks. It is a nice read imo.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/281 ... th-raiders
They bought in out there, almost the whole team, and really outplayed their talent level to end the year. The seniors had a blast with him too.
We have some holes, but we can plug a good amount for sure. 4-12 will likely be our worst record under him, and I think we lucked out getting him.
Next year will be tough, but you don't forge steel with water. Every rookie he brought in has zero quit, that will be a big part of every draft from here out.
-
deathstar
Posts: 2,911
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2014 7:54 pm
I usually don't follow this type of article but love the read. It restored some faith I have with Gruden.Jeremyturner1976 wrote Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:30 pm:I really enjoyed the read.
They bought in out there, almost the whole team, and really outplayed their talent level to end the year. The seniors had a blast with him too.
We have some holes, but we can plug a good amount for sure. 4-12 will likely be our worst record under him, and I think we lucked out getting him.
Next year will be tough, but you don't forge steel with water. Every rookie he brought in has zero quit, that will be a big part of every draft from here out.
-
kinz
Posts: 15,381
Joined: Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:52 pm
-
Jeremyturner1976
Posts: 2,263
Joined: Tue Aug 28, 2018 3:26 am
- Jeremyturner1976
- Posts: 2,263
- Joined: Tue Aug 28, 2018 3:26 am
- Has liked: 3413 times
- High Fived: 1425 times
He rolled the dice, good, keep doing it. This year, we have maybe three times the cap to work with (after cuts), and three extra first round picks coming up as well (plus a saved 40 million worth of FA). To me, 4-12 with maybe 5-8 guys playing above league average, some just barely, it was actually impressive.
I am not saying we see .500 next year, but if we get the QB situation resolved, I doubt we see less than .500 for the next several years following. This new core of all out players, plus all those FA's and two Mayock drafts including 5 first rounders, the chance of us greatly improving our talent level is basically guaranteed.
I saw enough to feel pretty damn good about it. The last quarter of the year is the team I am looking at only.
I will add this, Guenther's D handled KC's misdirection better than the Colts. That is how you beat Reid, I like Pauly G too.
-
WolfRaider
Posts: 765
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:46 am
- WolfRaider
- Posts: 765
- Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:46 am
- Has liked: 86 times
- High Fived: 313 times
-
TruR8r
Posts: 1,880
Joined: Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:38 am
-
RunOverByHubbard
Posts: 7,137
Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:09 am
Location: 88 miles NE of the Coliseum
- RunOverByHubbard
- Posts: 7,137
- Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:09 am
- Location: 88 miles NE of the Coliseum
- Has liked: 1454 times
- High Fived: 4157 times
-
kinz
Posts: 15,381
Joined: Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:52 pm
We purged the team. Gruden oversaw getting pretty much nothing in the draft or FA last year. He made weird choices with not playing our younger players until later in the year. This is all bad, real bad.
Mayock was hired.
Now the hope is Mayock has a great eye for talent, Gruden will listen, and we will get lots from the draft and FA. It could happen. But there is zero track record for any of this.
This draft and FA will tell the tale of this franchise for the next half dozen years.
-
RenoRaiders75
Posts: 79
Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:36 am
- RenoRaiders75
- Posts: 79
- Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:36 am
- Has liked: 7 times
- High Fived: 36 times
-
HITMAN
MEDIOCRE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
Posts: 31,139
Joined: Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:06 am
Location: Mount Sinai, One Foot in Hell...
I think that's why Mayock was brought on board to oversee all the administrative side of the football operations so JG can focus on the actual job of coaching players.Jeremyturner1976 wrote Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:08 pm:Hopefully he does a lot less managing and a lot more coaching. This was the move in and move on year, and we did not have a ton of cap to start with.
He rolled the dice, good, keep doing it. This year, we have maybe three times the cap to work with (after cuts), and three extra first round picks coming up as well (plus a saved 40 million worth of FA). To me, 4-12 with maybe 5-8 guys playing above league average, some just barely, it was actually impressive.
I am not saying we see .500 next year, but if we get the QB situation resolved, I doubt we see less than .500 for the next several years following. This new core of all out players, plus all those FA's and two Mayock drafts including 5 first rounders, the chance of us greatly improving our talent level is basically guaranteed.
I saw enough to feel pretty damn good about it. The last quarter of the year is the team I am looking at only.
I will add this, Guenther's D handled KC's misdirection better than the Colts. That is how you beat Reid, I like Pauly G too.
-
LVRaiderFootball
Posts: 1,261
Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:32 pm
- LVRaiderFootball
- Posts: 1,261
- Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:32 pm
- Has liked: 724 times
- High Fived: 528 times
-
MH_Raiders
Posts: 12,045
Joined: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:30 pm
- MH_Raiders
- Posts: 12,045
- Joined: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:30 pm
- Has liked: 3501 times
- High Fived: 5939 times
-
RaiderShane
Posts: 1,913
Joined: Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:22 pm
- RaiderShane
- Posts: 1,913
- Joined: Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:22 pm
- Has liked: 9285 times
- High Fived: 1291 times
He did buy wings at the senior bowl, just sayin.MH_Raiders wrote Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:16 am:We have heard this stuff way too many times before... nothing about Gruden this year said he knew what he was doing.
26 posts
• Page 1 of 2 • 1, 2