Raiders Lose Even In Winning
WIN OVER PITTSBURGH OVERSHADOWS THE WORST OFFENSE EVER
It's hard to decide which team to trash. A Super Bowl champion losing to the worst team in the NFL or the winner of the game displaying the lowest depths of ineptitude on offense ever.
The Raiders season cannot hit any lower or peculiar after Sunday's upset of the Steelers. Does that sound right? A 1-5 team beats the defending champs and there's still no reason for optimism? Leave it to the quarterback with two first names and the offense he leads garnering a meager 98 yards.
The Raiders may have had the fortune of playing against a post-concussed Ben Roethlisberger yesterday, but how many times will this defense be able to win a game incredibly and entirely on its own merits?
If yesterday's game were a video game, you would have sweared the Raiders offense was played either by a four-year-old limited to 2 hours of television a week by his hippy parents or a 65-year-old hand amputee with zero knowledge of what a video game is.
Four and out. Four and out. Four and out.
You can't get more predictable than that. Ironically, one of the best Raiders quarterbacks of all-time, former MVP, Rich Gannon was calling the game for CBS Sports. It was Gannon's pathetic five interception performance in the Super Bowl that seemingly jinxed the position for the next three years. He even called the offense run by Tom Walsh as "vanilla". Gannon's taste buds must have been muted by some salty fries and a pack of cigarettes, because to the rest of us it tasted like shit.
Performances like these, show in great detail that the Raiders braintrust severely mistook what they had in Andrew Walter as a young, up-and-coming QB, when the future belongs with the Matt Leinart, whom they passed over in last years draft.
Remember, when Al Davis drafted Marc Wilson number one out of Brigham Young in the early 80s and continually trotted him out there to the dismay of fans for four years. Wilson was an early round pick and should have been discarded as a mistake. Instead, the Raiders languished in mediocrity until the early 90s when Jay Schroeder and Jeff Hostetler brought the silver and black back to the playoffs.
Will Davis pass over Brady Quinn next year because he again mistakens Walter for a first-string quarterback or will he cut his losses unlike Wilson. Probably not, but we can hope.
The Niners across the Bay may get blown out with alarming frequency, but, at least the perception is that they're working out the kinks of a young team. These Raiders, on the other hand, are a mishmash of pieces new and old without any discernible direction but down.
It's hard to decide which team to trash. A Super Bowl champion losing to the worst team in the NFL or the winner of the game displaying the lowest depths of ineptitude on offense ever.
The Raiders season cannot hit any lower or peculiar after Sunday's upset of the Steelers. Does that sound right? A 1-5 team beats the defending champs and there's still no reason for optimism? Leave it to the quarterback with two first names and the offense he leads garnering a meager 98 yards.
The Raiders may have had the fortune of playing against a post-concussed Ben Roethlisberger yesterday, but how many times will this defense be able to win a game incredibly and entirely on its own merits?
If yesterday's game were a video game, you would have sweared the Raiders offense was played either by a four-year-old limited to 2 hours of television a week by his hippy parents or a 65-year-old hand amputee with zero knowledge of what a video game is.
Four and out. Four and out. Four and out.
You can't get more predictable than that. Ironically, one of the best Raiders quarterbacks of all-time, former MVP, Rich Gannon was calling the game for CBS Sports. It was Gannon's pathetic five interception performance in the Super Bowl that seemingly jinxed the position for the next three years. He even called the offense run by Tom Walsh as "vanilla". Gannon's taste buds must have been muted by some salty fries and a pack of cigarettes, because to the rest of us it tasted like shit.
Performances like these, show in great detail that the Raiders braintrust severely mistook what they had in Andrew Walter as a young, up-and-coming QB, when the future belongs with the Matt Leinart, whom they passed over in last years draft.
Remember, when Al Davis drafted Marc Wilson number one out of Brigham Young in the early 80s and continually trotted him out there to the dismay of fans for four years. Wilson was an early round pick and should have been discarded as a mistake. Instead, the Raiders languished in mediocrity until the early 90s when Jay Schroeder and Jeff Hostetler brought the silver and black back to the playoffs.
Will Davis pass over Brady Quinn next year because he again mistakens Walter for a first-string quarterback or will he cut his losses unlike Wilson. Probably not, but we can hope.
The Niners across the Bay may get blown out with alarming frequency, but, at least the perception is that they're working out the kinks of a young team. These Raiders, on the other hand, are a mishmash of pieces new and old without any discernible direction but down.
