What exactly are you basing your opinion on about Russell. His LSU days. Cause he was pretty good for the tigers. I hope its not those last three games of the season last year. And to call Cutler the 5 best qb in the league is pretty ridiculous. He isnt even top 10. Manning X2, McNabb, Brady, Rivers, Garrad, Romo, Brees, Bulger, Anderson, Hasselback, Delhomme.
Shut up. I dont believe this statement either. But i not saying thats its impossible. Cause if things go the right way and balls fall in our favor. The raiders could go 10-6 with Russell. I think 8-8 but 10-6 is possible. If fucking Buddy Ryan starts to blitz more since we play so much man to man. Also our d line and o line is better.
Haha. I did say buddy. Also dont say you know they will blitz more. We have played man to man for the past three years. Ryan has said himself that he does not like to blitz. He likes to use linebackers and safeties as run support only. Now which is weird cause we have been in the bottom in the league in the running game for the past few years. Plain and simple Ryan is horrible. Kiffin was right to try to run him out of town. But Al likes the guy cause of his last name and the way he looks.
I'm not sure I ever said Cutler is a top 5 QB (although not 100%, I might have,), but what I meant to say is Cutler will end the year as a top 5 QB, and he will. He is such a better QB than Russell it's not even fair. This isn't all just being a homer either because I don't think he is the best QB prospect in the league, Brady Quinn is (the guy Oakland should have drafted).
It's pretty funny that people forget that Russell was a borderline 1st round pick until he tore apart the ND defense in the BCS bowl game to end his college career. That was an absolutely terrible defense, but because he threw all over them the absolutely soared up on everyone's draft board. He isn't accurate enough, he's not a good decision maker, turns the ball over too often, doesn't make reads fast enough and from I remember I don't think he's ever done great against a team with equal or greater talent. He had stars all around him in college to make him look good, which isn't the case anymore. He's Byron Leftwich with a stronger arm. Brady Quinn will win MVP awards, and they missed out big on him.
This is all just my opinion of coarse, but the Raiders draft worse than every other team in the league. The two guys I personally wouldn't have touched at all in the past two drafts the Raiders end up taking in the top 5 both years in Russell and McFadden. We'll see how it turns out, but I think the best this team can hope for this year is 9-7. I would be amazed and give them their props if they could win 9 games this year, because that would be pretty shocking, and then you see fans predicting that they could win 12 if they get Favre, who isn't even that good at this point in his career (yes I remember last year, but do you remember the four years before that..).
If you Raider fans are really this confident in your team that a 7-9 year would be disappointing then you can all become very rich because right now they are listed at 6.5 wins and you get +140 juice to take the over (only way they can get people to bet that I guess).
