Patience is a virtue

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This is a post I read on another site it hit the nail on the head.

The Mack Says:
November 26th, 2012 at 12:11 am

You guys kill me, its the recievers fault, its Dmac fault, its carson, its kelly, its branch,blah blah blah. You mean to tell me every player on this team is struggling whether its offense or defense they’ve all just mysteriously forgotten how to play at the same time even though they were just fine the previous year after some players were even in the conversation for pro bowl considerations. 1 or 2 players lagging off ok but the whole dam team dropping off in unison? ?? There’s a common denominator folks and thats coaching. Point blank! Plain and simple.

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When we got rid of Hue Jackson, his offense went with him. While I agree that our current OC is crap, we have to be patient with the new offense that the team implemented. When a coach is hired late in the process he has to go with a known commodity from the scraps. If we wanted better Mark Davis should have hired Reggie McKenzie sooner and Reggie should have hired Allen sooner. But the norm is to wait til the season is over and do your interviews at the offseason events. So be it. You get what you get.
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Hey I rarely respond here but always read.

I totally agree with the poster's statement that this is all about patience. Take a step back and look at this team.

Before any hires were made the defense was void of talent, the run defense was that our de's were run stuffers and our dts were pass rushers. We cut the overpaid underperforming secondary bums and replaced them with cbs from the sabermetric bible. Our lbs were either new (burris wheeler) or another overpaid underperforming player (romac).

And thats just the defense.

If you look at the offense it was built thru one man, mcfadden. He went down last year and hue made a ballsy move to save his job by trading for palmer. It looked like a better offense but there were times it didnt show up.

Now when you account for the hires.

Reggie was a highly sought after GM but hes still a rookie gm. He came from green bay and someone posted that article about the similarities between us and them and it was not an overnight process and take into account how much crappier we are when he took over.

DA is a rookie hc that is inexperienced but he will grow with time. Hes fixing penalties already and thats just the start. he needs time. well i'll admit i hate knapp, the offense he wants to run can work, just look at hou and early 2000s den. but this also takes time if you look at kubiaks tenure he was on the hot seat.

and tarver is a bright young mind running a D he doesnt normally run but is once again a rookie.

when you take into account all of this, rookie coaches across the board (minus knapp) and also compare to where they came from (green bay and ZBS) anyone thinking that we would contend this year was on something. the team has to build thru the draft thru the trenches bc there is little to no talent on D and average talent on O with a system that only 2 or 3 linemen are suited for (altho i think wiz and veld at RT can pick it up) and a rb that is not meant for the ZBS.

this will take yearS not just one or two. this roster needs to be gutted and built from the ground up. we are worse than an expansion team bc we are in cap hell with overpaid underperforming players

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My biggest fear is Allen and McK being patience with Knapp... IMO, Allen is setting himself up for failure if he's going to hitch his wagons to Knapp as OC moving forward.

Young, old, aggressive, conservative... I really dont care what kind of OC we get as long as it isnt Knapp next year. I cant think of another OC in the league who has a longer track record of being terrible and still operating as a OC. The direction he has taken this offense is honestly laughable. It took injuries to our RB's for him to finally get Reece involved... this alone just blows my mind. If my 5 yr old nephew knew that Reece was one of the Raiders better players, how does an NFL OC not??

Ok, my weekly anit-Knapp rant is done.

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Forget about zone blocking. The NFL is talking about banning cut blocks (which in my opinion they should).Plus the Raiders just don't have the personal. Should the Raiders change the roster for something that could be illegal in a year or two.

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