The Official Oakland Raiders 2012 Offseason Thread
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i think this is the year DMC stays healthy and takes over that number 1 RB spot in the league. with the new strength and conditioning coaches, it should be a fun year to watch, and healthy hopefully. everybody in the world has counted the raiders out this year so far, but surprises will come to those. RAIDER NATION!
charles sollers concept helmets. I doubt these would ever actually be used, but they're dope anyway.
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I don't think there's any reason to be conerned about Palmer starting the whole season. I mean our O-line is pretty fuckin solid right now. Of course injuries always happen, but I don't think there's a reason to be extra worried about injuries at the QB position for us.
as far as our defense goes, I don't think we'll even be a top 15 defense. However, I think we can be better than last year, based on scheme alone. We really haven't lost much on defense. We lost Routte, but we all know how hit or miss he was, especially with the penalties. We lost Wimbley, but IMO that's not a big deal. The media who doesn't pay a lot of attention to the Raiders think that's a huge deal because of his sack total, but most of those sacks came in one game. That one game was a prime time game, so people have this idea that Wimbley is an absolute beast, when in reality he is an overpaid guy who's biggest strength is rushing the passer, and was only able to do that extremely effectively in one game last season.
like I said, scheme along could probably give us a defense ranked around 20th or so, IMO. we won't be as predictable as we have been in year's past. also, people forgetting we go Sho-nasty back... who has potential to be the best player on our defense... he didn't play at all last year. IMO if McFadden stays healthy we will compete for the division. His health is my biggest worry more than anything else.
think about it like this: last year we were 8-8 with McFadden out more than half the season, a turrible defense, the record for most penalties in a season, and Palmer coming off the couch mid-season. If we have Palmer with some experience, in shape, going through a whole off-season, a slightly better defense, more disciplined team, and healthy McFadden... there's no reason to believe we won't be as good, if not better than last year. Maybe I'm just drinking too much silver and black kool-aid though.
as far as our defense goes, I don't think we'll even be a top 15 defense. However, I think we can be better than last year, based on scheme alone. We really haven't lost much on defense. We lost Routte, but we all know how hit or miss he was, especially with the penalties. We lost Wimbley, but IMO that's not a big deal. The media who doesn't pay a lot of attention to the Raiders think that's a huge deal because of his sack total, but most of those sacks came in one game. That one game was a prime time game, so people have this idea that Wimbley is an absolute beast, when in reality he is an overpaid guy who's biggest strength is rushing the passer, and was only able to do that extremely effectively in one game last season.
like I said, scheme along could probably give us a defense ranked around 20th or so, IMO. we won't be as predictable as we have been in year's past. also, people forgetting we go Sho-nasty back... who has potential to be the best player on our defense... he didn't play at all last year. IMO if McFadden stays healthy we will compete for the division. His health is my biggest worry more than anything else.
think about it like this: last year we were 8-8 with McFadden out more than half the season, a turrible defense, the record for most penalties in a season, and Palmer coming off the couch mid-season. If we have Palmer with some experience, in shape, going through a whole off-season, a slightly better defense, more disciplined team, and healthy McFadden... there's no reason to believe we won't be as good, if not better than last year. Maybe I'm just drinking too much silver and black kool-aid though.
its funny these idiots who think we will have the same exact problems as previous years. we have a whole new defense, staff from top to bottom basically. people fail to realize we have new strength and conditioning coaches, whcih should hopefully help out the injury bug from last year, not to mention mcfadden and palmer on the same field together with these up and coming receivers.