The Offical 2013 Oakland Raiders Season Thread

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Raiders place Maiava, Young on IR
The Oakland Raiders placed linebacker Kaluka Maiava and safety Usama Young on season-ending Injured Reserve on Saturday and signed linebacker Marshall McFadden off the practice squad in a flurry of roster moves.

The Raiders also waived defensive lineman Brian Sanford while signing cornerback Chance Casey and safety Shelton Johnson from the practice squad.

The Raiders initially listed Maiava (ribs/calf) and Young (neck) as two of the seven players ruled out for Sunday’s game at the New York Jets, but with the two now off the 53-man roster, Oakland has two options for the 46-man game-day roster.

Maiava, who was expected to compete for a starting position at weak-side linebacker, endured an injury-plagued season, appearing in nine games and had 25 tackles, nine solo. He started one game.

Young appeared in 12 games and had one start at strong safety. He had 26 tackles (19 solo, six on special teams) with 2.5 sacks to lead the secondary, an interception and two passes defended. He was injured in the Raiders’ Thanksgiving Day loss at the Dallas Cowboys and he left the locker room wearing a neck brace.

While Casey and Johnson were both undrafted free agents signed out of Baylor and Wisconsin, respectively, McFadden spent most of the 2012 season on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ practice squad and appeared in one game.
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something to keep in mind even though our squad ain't lookin' so hot right now:

Dead money leaders | National Football Post

Oakland Raiders ($55,465,877-Dead Money; $127,187,041-Adjusted Cap)
Reggie McKenzie inherited a salary cap mess when he was hired as Oakland’s general manager in January 2012 due to the previous regime’s habit of overpaying players. Oakland’s massive amount of dead money results from McKenzie completing a two-year process of cleaning up the cap through a roster purge where Oakland’s five highest paid players (by average yearly salary) in 2012 were let go by the team.

It is amazing that the Raiders haven’t sewn up the first pick in the 2014 NFL draft considering that 43.6 percent of their adjusted cap is devoted to dead money. The Raiders are essentially operating with a $71.7 million salary cap because of dead money.

Four former Raiders are in the top-10 in dead money this year. Richard Seymour ($13.714 million), Carson Palmer ($9.34 million), Rolando McClain ($7.26 million) and Tommy Kelly ($6.324 million) rank first, third, fifth and eighth, respectively.

Three Al Davis first-round picks (Darrius Heyward-Bey, Michael Huff and McClain) were among the players released. Heyward-Bey and Huff are taking up $5.26 million and $3,288,750 of cap space. Huff was a Post-June 1 designation who will count $6,208,750 million towards next year’s cap.

The bright side of the roster purge is that the Raiders should have the NFL’s most cap room in 2014. The Raiders currently have $54,135,620 of 2014 cap obligations with 32 players under contract, while the top-51 cap numbers count towards the cap. If the 2014 salary cap is set at $125 million, the Raiders should have slightly over $61 million in cap space.
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I'm sold on tarver, he's doing more with less. I think a lot of what's gone wrong on the defensive side, has had to do with the talent level.

not sold at all on olson, wish we could get hugh back at OC.

not sure about DA, he brought in tarver, but he also brought in knapp and olson. also waited too long to pull flynn's bum ass from the starting position. how the hell did that clown go through the whole offseason as the starter? gotta wonder how much better off the offense would be if mcgloin or pryor had gotten all the first team reps through OTA's and training camp. instead it was flynnch until the last preseason game.

reggie needs to prove himself in this next draft or he gotta go. none of his top picks have done much for us. he's good at finding undrafted talent and hidden gems in free agency to fill out a roster, but we need some big time playmakers/difference makers. he'll have all the picks and money he needs next season, so no more blaming it on the previous regime.
 
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Raiders Inactives: WR Denarius Moore, RB Darren McFadden, RB Rashad Jennings, RB Jeremy Stewart, S Tyvon Branch, G Lamar Mady, G Mike Brisiel

Jets Inactives: QB David Garrard, LB Jermaine Cunningham, G Will Campbell, T Ben Ijalana, OL Oday Aboushi, TE Chris Pantale, WR Stephen Hill
 
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