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I’m no fan of Knapp but… Hue’s vaunted “9th Ranked” offense was fool’s gold – just look at the details. I get it: DMC isn’t gonna change his running style to fit the Zone and hiring Knapp was almost as bad an idea as paying guys like Routt, Kelly, Huff, Richard Seymour as if they were All-Pros… or trading two high picks for Carson Palmer. However: you have to admit that it was weird when literally every other RB on the roster put up near-double YPC average than DMC.

To the Hubris Jackson fool’s gold:
Did you know:
~Not one single 100 yard rusher final 6 games of 2011. The most rushing yards by any one Raider during that stretch was 78 yards from Bush vs. Green Bay, 50 of which came in the second half when the score was 0-34. (77 for Bush vs. Detroit – the only game during the last three where this “mighty” offense delivered a rushing TD… from Louis Murphy on an end around.)
~Bush had 2 Rushing TDs in the last quarter of 2011: 1 vs. the aforementioned Caleb Hanie-led Bears… in week 12; 1 vs. Green Bay in the 3rd quarter… to make the score 7-34 in week 14.
~The TD vs. Chicago was the last “meaningful” TD scored by our running game in all of 2011. (“meaningful” = game still undecided)
~Of the 8 TD passes thrown by Palmer those last 6 games, only 3 were truly meaningful.
~For the second half of the season, Hue’s offense went over 300 yards passing 3 times, with an additional week of 298. During the last quarter of the season? Twice. Detroit for 340 and SD for 417.
~One single, solitary 100+ yard receiver in a meaningful performance – DHB, with 155/1TD vs. Detroit. He had 130/1TD & Moore had 101/0TD vs. SD but you guessed it… mostly junk. 190 yards in second half of the SD game to those two, including a 78 yarder to Moore when it was 24-13 in the 3rd. I count that as garbage because anyone watching the game knew it was over, especially when SD went up 31-16 halfway through the 3rd.
~Garbage time passing yards, where the game is lost, just during the last quarter: Miami – 174; GB – 143, SD – 226. These were blowout losses.

Yes, I’m well aware that Carson came off the couch and that the offense had some serious injuries, but having said that… why do people remember such a great offense? It’s called “Selective Remembrance” and it’s simply inaccurate. Everyone blames the D as the problem in 2011… not sure that’s accurate either. Regardless… the Raiders dominated exactly ONE team in 2011 under the still-not-employed-as-an-OC Hue Jackson: the pounded the Jets. Not exactly world beating, but maybe not even worth remembering so fondly when watching DA and RM try and sift through this disaster.

As far the rest of the “front seven”:

Lamarr Houston as one 3-4 DE and draft S. Floyd as the other 3-4 DE or Lotulelei from Utah as the 3-4 DT.

Sims, Walker, and Hunter rotate in and out at DE and Kelly in at DT if he takes a MASSIVE paycut.

DMAC themed offense led by OC Olson (with Saunders help) will come along either with Palmer OR Pryor OR “QB to named later” in 2014 and beyond…BUT the Defensive side of the ball is what the Raiders need to fix in 2013!

If we can complete the rumor of trading our # 3 pick , and a 6th rounder, (thank you for the compensatory pick yesterday) to the Rams for their #16, # 22, and # 46 pick , then i would have to say hats off to reggie, even though the Rams well get either a great tackle either way…defense or offense. Maybe even Warmack to make one heck of a left side along with Jake Long. Bradford would be loving that.

Solid pick ups and little money spent.

get WRs,

give carson 1 more year with some decent weapons, new o-coordinator, if he doesnt make playoffs, pryors job the next seasons and future…

give dennis allen another year to fix defense and pieces,

its simple, keep palmer & allen for another year, give them weapons , build and see if they make playoffs this year,

if not, pryor , maybe a new coach and continue to build, u can have a good season THIS YEAR and the set up for the future,

pryor is perfect with this new wave of option QBS, hes bigger then RG3, more durable,

mckenzie needs to have a good team this year,

the fans were shot in the heart last year after being out of the playoffs mathematically in week 9.

give the fans a season , please. hue had them 1 game away at the least…