BuffaloRebound

Obviously. The fact that it always comes to this is the problem. The inability to find and develop younger players to fill these roles is the failure.

Steelers must be terrible for us to be 4 point favorites in vegas for this game.

Just make it stop. How can this regime not find promising young players to fill these roles?

Raiders feel a lot like the drought-era Bills. Some good individual players but an organization lacking any direction. That’s the type of team you poach players from like Marshawn, Peters, and Gilmore were freed from the Bills and became Hall of Fame players.

We simply don’t develop enough good young players on either side of the ball but especially on defense. Then we are stuck having to give significant contracts to above average players because it would take so long to replace them. And supplement that with guys well past their prime like Poyer, Tre White, aj klein, jordan phillips, shaq lawson, gabe davis, etc. We are about 3 years into the McBeane ‘Holding on to something they never had’ tour. The only thing preventing the wheels from falling off is a superstar QB.

It’s not just WR. The LB and secondary room is almost as bad. Beane is to blame but so is McDermott, who trots out washed up guys who he’s familiar with. Both of them need to go. They’re both above average at their jobs, but we need great to go along with our QB. Does Terry have it in him to dump above average to go for great?

I mean he held up 1v1 for 3.5 seconds against an elite pass rusher and probably gets a holding call if he tries to re-engage after that.

Rousseau is a solid player. Benford was good but is injury prone now. Same with Bernard whose contract was a lot lighter. Shakir is a good player. Cook is an All Pro. And who else was available to give that money to? The problem has always been the defensive scheme and that McDermott values guys who can run his complicated scheme over size and speed. And you end up with a ton of injuries then having to recycle washed up guys who know the system.

Why is Ray Davis not getting any carries the way he is returning kicks the last 2 games?

Yep. He’s like the 20 year old kid on a team of 50 year olds at the local YMCA pickup basketball games.

I simply hate watching this defense. Aging, undersized defenders who can’t tackle, get pushed around and constantly get hurt. It’s painful. McDermott usually finds a way to duct tape it together long enough to give the offense a chance, but it’s no way to win a championship.

Yes. Denver did it with a competent coach. Watching 190lb Taron Johnson playing Linebacker on a 4th and 1 getting dragged 7 yards by the Running Back sums up the McDermott defense. It needs to be blown up and Mcdermott needs to go with it.

Josh Allen is always worth watching. Mcdermott and his defense aren’t. It’s like watching a fight where a scrappy 180lb weakling gets pummeled by a bigger stronger opponent. Congrats McBeane. You’ve managed to build a defense that is the exact opposite of your unicorn QB. I particularly loved watching Taron Johnson unblocked on a 4th and 1 get dragged 7 yards by a RB.

bernard was off the field.

whoever came in for bernard. Defense looked competent once Bernard got hurt.