I realized while reading a rant this afternoon between RaiderCardAddict and RaiderSteve that I've seen this before, although not in football. But first, a little background:
We Raider fans are learning that there is a big difference between not performing and imploding. The Bugel years we didn't perform. Watching Jeff George as our QB was an exercise in non-performance. Loosing Gannon started a skid of subpar performances that has culminated in what can be viewed as little short of disaster.
But in non-performance, there is always hope.
Over the years we've had Woodson, Brown, Garner, Wheatley, and some of the most dominant offensive lines in the game. And we've had the much maligned Al Davis who, for all his flaws, remains one of the premier coaching talent evaluators in football history (SB winners Tom Flores, John Madden, Mike Shannahan, and John Gruden are all Davis hires).
True, he's as good (better, even) at firing premier coaches than finding premier coaches, but he was our man and our leader, and we were with him.
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about 1 month ago
Interesting story.
Although, the steve you speak of, has been removed for TOS issues.
I know the Raiders have issues. I also know that this is a team, that has issues on being close to multiple personality issue disordered.
One week, our Defense stinks.
Another Week, defense great, offense stinks.
And another week, Offense great, defense stinks.
We've had close games, even with the soap opera going on between Kiffin, Cable, and Davis.
Sure, things can be ugly. But then, solutions are hard to come by, with the players and the owner we have.
All i hope for right now, is we don't lose Nmandi in the offseason.
about 1 month ago
crack killed applejack. Lay off it. you sound like a forty whiner fan. sometimes you have to hit bottom and this is where the raiders are now. one thing you said is true; we have no leadership on the field/sideline at all, coach player nothing no one nada. without that we will wallow in the doldrums of misery. it does not appear that the affable manchild jmarc is capable of fulfilling this role for us...luckily for me i'm too old to hang out in sportsbars and thus have probably saved myself thousans of dollars in bail money over the last six seasons.
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