ohiodawg13 wrote:Dennis Allen is the first defensive minded coach the Raiders have hired since John Madden in '69. I heard today that he's big on discipline, which might help keep the Raiders from leading the league in penalties again. Now, what to do about the QB position....Carson Palmer is not the answer. All he did for the Raiders was cost them valuable draft picks, and Hue Jackson, who spearheaded the deal, wondered why he got canned.
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I don't see Dennis Allen having any stellar accolades yet. He barely improved Denver's defense.
They sure couldn't stop New England at all. So he is yet to be proven. But I want him to prove himself big time now since he is the Raiders new Head Coach.
Hue Jackson is very big on discipline also, he brought refs in just to help the Raiders overcome the penalty problems. They tried a number of things and this has been an ongoing problem even with Gruden. There are different types of penalties and why you make them. I'm just gonna say this straight out. Our defensive coordinator and secondary sucked. They made a number of penalties because they get beat. That is not a lack of discipline. That is just you plain out just can't cover your man. They may be too fast for you. And they were out of position. This will be one of the big priorities for the Head Coach to work on.
All Carson Palmer did was almost take us to the playoffs to the very last game. With everything that happened to the Raiders this season, they were still almost able to make the playoffs. Losing an Iconic owner, your running back, your QB, your receivers, new offensive line. With everything that was thrown at him, I think Hue Jackson did a great job for his first year at head coach. He ended up have to do a sort of GM too.
No 1, Carson was brought in because we lost our QB and they had no one else to replace him to even give us close to a shot to make the playoffs. Did they pay a high price? Yes. Will it be worth it? Only the next 2 years will tell.
But in the games he played so far he did pretty good considering it's totally different verbiage between Cinn. offense and Oak. offense. And what Hue Jackson was best at, was developing an explosive complex play-calling scheme that the Raiders haven't seen even with Gruden. Not those 3-5 yd dinks. But reverses, no-huddles, screens, 40 yd passes. Mixing it up to throw the defense off. Hue took our offense from 31 in 2009 to 10 in 2010.
Zero pressure on San Diego cost the Raiders the playoffs with that dumb defensive scheme, not Carson Palmer.
Also Carson Palmer never got to play with Darren McFadden, our No. 1 player. And they still almost made the playoffs. 5.4 and that is 2 plays you get a first down. 3.8 and that is 3 plays and you get a first down. Make McFadden at 226 Att and it could be 1228 yds over Bush's 977 yds in 256 att.
Att Yds Yds/Att Long TD
Michael Bush 256 977 3.8 44 7
Darren McFadden 113 614 5.4 70 4
This new coach inherited a great offense if they can stay healthy. Carson has some things to work on like interceptions, but he does have the arm for this type of offense. Not everyone does.
We still have Al Saunders as our offensive coordinator this season and unless they can find someone better, it would be good to keep him to have some kind of stability since the offense did well this season and he is integral in the playbook. We have a young offensive line so that would be helpful to them as well.
The GM cleaned house, so let him clean up that defense and make it a champion like he said he will. Because until you clean that up, the Raiders are going nowhere.
"Holy Toledo" - Bill King "Just Win Baby" - Al Davis "The Autumn Wind" - Steve Sabol
.....but i dished out as much jive a** as I could muster.....punks with little stones trying to diminish my 49ers cinderella season....as I said to one fool.... "yes, the clock struck midnite, and the slipper came off, but your momma still wears combat boots, and your team still plays like sissies (not THAT exact word) ....
Let's see at this point, we have a former linebacker as are new GM,