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Y'all are a bunch of haters our Defense is getting stronger especially now with the leadership change and we got some solid players on the offensive side. The new staff is going to turn things around and whose to say Aiden O Connel isn't our future generational QB? I have a lot of confidence remaining and this season still we can still make it to the playoffs and I look forward to O Connal high lights and the new staff winning games while you fools continue to hate. We got the perfect formula just watch!

That wont be consistent watch if the lions make the playoffs i guarantee they wont be in it next year those are the kirk cousin qbs...the jets have an elite defense Justin Herbert just beat them bad the 49ers aren't looking to hot right now plus you have to worry about injuries a great qb cant elevate bad teams and if you keep this mentality that you dont need a great qb thats exactly why the raiders never win consistently...i think the truth here is the NFL doesn't want the raiders having an elite qb because they want to see those money making super stars succeed but the NFL doesn't want the raiders winning like that.

The Eagles beat Tom Brady with Nick Foles.

​@casper7869 Yes, he was a bit off target..but his point still stands. Mahomes was the 10th pick, and Allen the 7th pick. You don't need to move up to the very top of a draft to get a great QB.

@@Caspet78 You still chose to miss the point...which was excatly what the original poster said...that you don't need to draft at the very top of a draft to get a great QB. And you're welcome.

@@Caspet78 "You DONT need a top 2 pick to get a great QB". How is that not correct? That was his point. He was wrong about the exact spots where the QB's he mentioned were drafted, but his point still stands.

@@Caspet78 You make some lame, rude comment pointing out that part of someone's comment was factually incorrect while completely ignoring their point..throw in a childish "lmao"..and then resort to personal attacks. It's pretty obvious who the "kid" here is.

@@Caspet78 Dude go get a gf and stop being mad at everyone

Because everyone is casual nowadays and think you need the first pick of the draft to be successful for a quarterback

It’s gonna be interesting. No more mcdumbass to force qbs to play his play cause if you’re not Brady, audible out his play and you get crucified by him. we’re gonna find out Sunday.

@@natedogg7488 Look at the Panthers !

Agreed. O'Connell may very well be a solid - Jared Goff style - QB.

@@jeanfourcade That’s all you need because you have Davante Adams, Hunter Renfrow, Josh Jacobs, Michael Mayer so you have weapons on offense

Need a top defense though. Can't have a defense who gets trampled over running the ball. They need tackles desperately. LB's are also weak. Defensive backs can't tackle either.

@@TheBlackHole2024 That's why Raider fans should be hype about Antonio Pierce. Dude bleeds defense and knows what one looks like

@@crenshaw46 True but you still need players. They have improved some but still weak. Is he gonna take over the defense. The Bears game was despicable. Totally trounced and run over.

I think he was a 6th of 7th rounder actually, great point lets go AOC

He was a 6th rounder. But clearly finding your franchise QB that becomes a HOF player and wins tons of superbowls in late rounds of the draft has been extremely common throughout the history of the game and not a rare anomaly that has been spoken of so many times due to how amazing it was to have drafted arguably the greatest QB ever in the 6th round because his intangibles and mindset are things that draft measurements don’t account for and led to a generational player playing far above his physical abilities like Tom did. Of the 57 super bowls in league history a QB drafted in the first round has won 31 of them. The rounds other than the first with the highest number of wins is round 6 with 8 and round 3 with 7. No other round has more than 3. And those two rounds obviously have an inflated total considering 4/7 in round three are Joe Montana and 7/8 in round 6 are Tom Brady. As for round 4 like the rookie? 1. What does this indicate? That throughout the history of the game clearly the most success as measured by winning superbowls is with QBs that teams pick highly because they demonstrate the most skill and upside to invest your franchise on. Arguing for a late round guy by pointing to Tom is nothing more than saying that because a couple teams were able to hit the jackpot with a guy that wasn’t the lauded prospect in the draft because those two men were simply the anomolies that many consider to be the two best to ever play and nobody predicted to accomplish anything close to what they did is a strong basis to plot the future of your franchise because in the 57 seasons we’ve had a superbowl there happened to be two guys who accomplished something historical. It isn’t the sexy argument but clearly over half of all superbowls have been won by the stereotypical talent evaluation process of picking the best guy available and hoping he lives up to it and maybe placing your future that you will be the third in the history of the game to find the diamond that nobody else was able to see that becomes elite isn’t the best bet to make. But who knows it s happened twice in nearly 60 years so it’s theoretically possible 🙃

6th round 199th pick

Looking forward to seeing him step up and shoot his shot! Can't be worse than Jimmy...Monday was humiliating.

Bingo

You're right, it's not...but the problem is what they don't have...a reliable OL. Outside of Kolton Miller, the Raiders OL is comprised of guys who woudn't start for the vast majority of NFL teams. You can have all the skill position talent in the world, but it won't amount to much if they're having to rely on an OL with too many players with practice squad level talent on it. Outside of a lack of effective leadership, this was McDaniels and Zieglers greatest failure...they focused too much on skill positions instead of trying to solidify the trenches first.

😂 no

Yes

Their schedule is brutal.

Facts

Dude sounds like an idiot

The problem is that his offensive and defensive lines are not that great, but they will surprise some teams.

D-Line has potential. I feel like Butler isn't talked about enough. They need another dog at the edge, which everyone though Wilson would be, but dude just looks lazy every time, polar opposite of Maxx's energy, it sucks. Brian Burns would've been a perfect fit, another lengthy psycho.@@mandarinandthetenrings2201

You're with him because he's right. That other fool is just saying, "copy what the chiefs are doing". Yeah right, lightening in a bottle. Build a DEFENSE. You want to take the top guy out? Stop him! Don't try to do what he's doing better than him. Shut him down!

I agree James

I hear you but win a supetbowl we need 2 be looking for the next aikman

Yeah and james jones has been wrong for all the years hes worked for the raiders

Idk man you can just have energy, you gotta win schematically in this league

@@dylanpirie7320 completely agree but we will see

@@dylanpirie7320worked for the lions

⁠@@dylanpirie7320well, with McSuckiels we didn’t have the energy or the schematics. So at least we’re one step in the right direction.

​@WildWill-lp4cv Maybe, you have CTE and PTSD which you may need to get checked on up on lil fella 😅

I believe this. If Carr didn't get hurt, we would've went deep into the playoffs, miss those times.

Actually they were 2nd in the league in turnovers which is why that defense allowed the offense to win a lot of games.

Highest paid o line and reggie mckenzie was making a huge splash at GM. Things fell apart when they let go of OC bill Musgrave the following season

​@jocool562 Carr wanted his QB coach to be his OC that's why he was let go.

@@j.olacio5298 Todd downing??

Yea your not smart. You need both. Clearly this didn’t age well

The 49ers lost 3 games already to elite qbs your never getting to the big dance without the qb...its exactly what's holding the raiders back they never had a super star qb and the truth is i dont think the NFL wants a super stars in Vegas because then they have to watch the raiders become great again if you keep going with that mentality we dont need a great qb you're never winning in this league...james jones has been a loser for the raiders show every show was the same thing they need to do this they need to do that but never win coming from a guy who played with arron Rodgers its a joke.

It's a qb league now ya you need a good defense but to win need to put it in the end zone facts

You win with BOTH😊 FEELING ME?😅

Not anymore offense wins chips

​@night_wolf6621 and your mom still be sukn my dck

@@night_wolf6621 Only for the Chiefs.

Much more common to win championships with a great offense with a competent defense than a bad offense and great defense. This season for the Raiders should be an example of how that mantra really isn’t the case in today’s league most of the time. The Raiders defense has done enough most games to give the team a chance to win consistently if the team had a competent to good offense. The defense hasn’t been elite by any means but they’ve definitely been good enough that the offense has had the chance in most of the games to win. If your defense gives up 24 or so points a good offense can win a lot of those games but obviously not a horrible one that is averaging 16 points a game. If your offense is playing so badly to only average 16 points a game your defense has to play at an absolutely elite level every single game to even have a chance to win and that’s a ton to ask of even the best of defenses. Look at teams this season like the Browns, Saints and Falcons who have all seen really good play form their defenses yet are at or barely above a .500 record because they aren’t scoring. Your defense can’t be awful and you expect to win but if you have an offense that can put up in the mid 20s every week and a defense that can do well enough to keep teams around that same amount of points you will more often than not win a lot of games. Look even at the Super Bowl. Both teams scored 30+. The Chiefs defense stepped up in the second half and played a major part of the win but the defense was never an elite defense. The offense was obviously very good the entire season. The eagles defense had been one of the top in the league the entire season and their offense was obviously very good as well. But notice how a defense that had been one of the best in the league the entire season wasn’t able to stifle all the scoring when the offense they were playing was led by an elite QB. If they didn’t have a good offense they’d have been pummeled but because they also had a really good offense their defense didn’t have to be expected to somehow keep a Mahomes from scoring which isn’t going to happen but simply to get some key stops that allowed for their talented offense to get enough of an edge to win like KC did. But if the team can’t score they’ll not see any serious contention because even Mahomes at his worst is almost always going to score at least 20 points.

@@ActorJose4Real The last time the defense won a championship was 2019 Pats Vs Rams Super Bowl the Las time the defense carried a team to a superbowl was 2015. Other than that every team that went to the Super Bowl had a really good offense

In a division with a mahomes and a Herbert, we need a generational qb. I get it we need to ramp up the d and olines but if you don’t have a qb that can got toe to toe with mahomes, we’ll never get past em

The answer is not to outscore Mahomes. It's to stop him. Defense is the answer. Something the Raiders know very little about but should learn real quick.

@@UpsonPrattJr. for sure but having a mediocre qb isn’t gonna work in today’s NFL. I’m tired of mediocre or middle of the pack guys like Carr or Jimmy G. The defense isn’t gonna be that hard to fix they’ve played relatively well so far. We need to get our QB

​@@paytonhurde4092He's not saying mediocre just one who can get the job done. The chances of getting a generational talent is one in a million. A Burrow, Allen, Tua, Mahomes, Herbert, etc. takes insane amounts of luck to get and even if you get a top QB in the draft how do you guarantee that's the guy? All you really need is a QB who can make limited mistakes.

Lol who with eyes can't see that😂 Who's ya'll

u gone be saying that till all of a sudden your defense is good and your offense sucks. Saw it happen to my giants

I agree . I can’t stand her