what exactly do you two propose they do with Porter and Moss?
Since they are currently adding so much.
New coach = rebirth of Team Effort (moss and porter?)
When asstard Porter laughed at his teamates misfourtunes during the early season why would you even want him as a teamate?
My question is if you trade those two players for Vick....who is he going to throw to?
Porter is a pretty good reciever. At least the best one the Raiders have had over the past handful of seasons.
westkoast, how the heck would anyone know how good any of the Raider receivers are? Aren't NFL teams required to have this thing called a "quarterback" somewhere on the field to throw them the ball?
The Raiders put 'some guy' behind this liney thingy that on most teams actually tries to protect him from harm, but in the Raiders' brilliance, the coaches tell them, "hold those bad men across from you out of the backfield for a minimum of 15 seconds so we can have our wideouts race waaaaaay down field and maybe curl back and be wide open". Problem is, they don't include those bad men across from them in these little meetings to tell them
NOT to play like NFL defensive linemen and actually crash that party. This has proven to be especially effective on third and long plays, where the Oakland quarterbacks get sacked just about every time. Turns out, guarding against the blitz is not part of the 1960's Raider offensive playbook, as teams did not blitz back then, or at least did not call it that. Al Davis has yet to understand what this concept is and everyone around him are too afraid to tell him.
On a side note, the new Raider coach is going to be Lane Kiffen, the 31 year old USC offensive coordinator. A former quarterback at Fresno State, his limited coaching time spent in the NFL was as a "defensive quality control coach" with Jacksonville in 2000, when he worked with the secondary. The rest of his coaching tenures were with Fresno State (Graduate Assistant in 1997 and 1998), Colorado (offensive line assistant), then Jacksonville, and he has been at USC since 2001, first as the tight end coach, then wide receivers coach, passing game coordinator, and finally the offensive coordinator in 2005.
Now he becomes Al Davis' thirty-one year old "Offensive-minded Quality Control and Head Coach, <with a minor in ass-kissing and Yes Sir, Mr. Davis>) that will no doubt stir the Raider Nation to untold new heights in mutual respect over the five year contract Kiffen was given.
