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QUOTE Originally Posted by Sal_Tessio:


What does this even mean? He'll look like him physically?  A huge fat behind?  If so, no.  Pryor will always be lean.  Or maybe you mean he'll look like him figuratively... as a bust? Russell was the 1st overall pick.  Yeah, he was a bust.  Pryor was a 3rd-round pick in the Supplemental Draft.  Nobody expected him to be a superstar.  Anyway, Pryor has very little to do with anything.  Maybe he can stick around if they create a Wildcat package for him, because clearly, all he is capable of doing is running.  He has zero accuracy, his footwork is terrible and he's pretty much a friggin dummy on top of everything else.  If they can't find a way for him to be useful, he'll be on the street.

This team will go as far as Palmer takes us.  We're stuck with him for better or worse.  I don't think he makes that ill-advised throw that got picked off if this were a regular season game.  You work on garbage in the preseason.  He wanted his receiver to go make a play.

I go back to the bad-behind Raiders of the 70s.  THOSE were football teams.  And since Kenny Stabler left, we've had two good QBs -- Plunkett and Gannon. Been waiting for another ring for almost 30 years now.  The wait will get longer, but I'm convinced this team is heading in the right direction.

Incidentally, I don't think McKenzie is a huge Palmer fan, so we'll probably start looking for our long-term answer at QB within the next two draft classes.

The good news: D-Mac is healthy!  And he looked fast and elusive in his limited action.  If he stays healthy, we WILL put points on the board.  The WR corps is as deep as I can ever recall. (Letting Murphy go to Carolina for a late pick is a clear signal of that.) The O-line is a young, nasty, underrated group of snotblowers, and the zone-blocking scheme is perfect for McFadden.  Same garbage he ran at Arkansas.  One cut and out the gate.

The defense has been the HUGE question mark over the last several seasons.  Allen is the man for the job.  He is a defensive specialist, and he'll put our guys in the best schemes to be successful.  The 1st-team defense looked fantastic tonight.  The D-line dominated and the LBs were flying around.  The back end is a big concern, and has been since Nnamdi left.  That will continue to be a work in progress and the main headache.

We have the best special teams in the league, as far as PK/punter combination goes.

But most importantly, we have a real general manager now.  I loved Al, but speed speed speed is the only thing he cared about.  Al would take a fast guy and try to make him a football player. Reggie wants football players, and if they happen to be fast, that's a nice bonus.

OAK is 9-3 in the AFC West the past two seasons, so we are taking care of business in-division.  It just got tougher with Peyton going to Denver, but I like the challenge.

PRIDE AND POISE, girl!