Las Vegas Raiders General Thread
- Thread starter Don Wassall
- Start date
Dylan Laube continuing to get positive reviews:
www.sportingnews.com
Las Vegas Raiders Day 3 pick drawing early hype with showing at OTAs | Sporting News
Las Vegas Raiders 2024 sixth-round pick and running back Dylan Laube was turning heads during Day 2 of OTAs on Tuesday.
www.sportingnews.com
This. I always watch pre season with an eye for White talent which I know will be caste aside come regular season. merit based league obviously..
Brock Bowers can be a super weapon if the Raiders "dare" to utilize his talent to the maximum.
Las Vegas Raiders hint at using Brock Bowers in a special way by posting a teaser video from OTAs
white lightning
Hall of Famer
- Joined
- Oct 16, 2004
- Messages
- 21,498
Dylan Laube continuing to get positive reviews:
Las Vegas Raiders Day 3 pick drawing early hype with showing at OTAs | Sporting News
Las Vegas Raiders 2024 sixth-round pick and running back Dylan Laube was turning heads during Day 2 of OTAs on Tuesday.
This is very exciting news. Haven't been much of a Raiders fan for a long time but will tune in this fall for sure.
Freethinker
Hall of Famer
The Raiders are shaping up to be a top team for our cause. They could have 4 starters, or 5 if they utilize a double TE set, on offense. 2 or 3, depending on the base defense on D. Mineshew or O’Connell, Miller, JPJ, Bowers and Mayer, with an eye to be kept on Harrison Bryant and Dylan Laube. On D they’ve got Crosby and Spillane with Masterson or Eichenberg as the 3rd LB.
The positive publicity continues for Laube:
Raiders’ best rookie sleeper to make impact in 2024 NFL season
Raiders' best rookie sleeper to make impact in 2024 NFL season
Raiders sixth-round rookie running back Dylan Laube is a sleeper who could make a big impact for the team during the 2024 NFL season.
clutchpoints.com
Very positive article about Laube:
www.silverandblackpride.com
Raiders depth chart: Rookie Dylan Laube has skillset to be RB2, change of pace back
New Hampshire product has all-purpose skillset as runner, receiver, special teamer
www.silverandblackpride.com
The Raiders are supposedly going to utilize both Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer quite a bit this season. That certainly makes sense as they have little at WR after their two starters Davante Adams and Jacobi Meyers. They have Alex Bachman as a backup but at this point we can be pretty certain that Bachman will never get a legit shot at regular season playing time.
Bowers can be used all over the field including at running back. There's room for both he and Mayer to soak up lots of targets, let's hope it happens.
www.yardbarker.com
Bowers can be used all over the field including at running back. There's room for both he and Mayer to soak up lots of targets, let's hope it happens.
Raiders won't be wasting Georgia product Brock Bowers' elite talent in Year 1
Nobody could have guessed Brock Bowers would end up with the Las Vegas Raiders at No. 13 overall in the 2024 NFL Draft. Even Bowers was shocked. That's
www.yardbarker.com
jphoss
Mentor
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2022
- Messages
- 866
I recall the pats giving hernandez jet sweeps out of the backfield. Hopefully we see the raiders emphasize the te’s the same way the patriots did. Their offense will be unstoppableThe Raiders are supposedly going to utilize both Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer quite a bit this season. That certainly makes sense as they have little at WR after their two starters Davante Adams and Jacobi Meyers. They have Alex Bachman as a backup but at this point we can be pretty certain that Bachman will never get a legit shot at regular season playing time.
Bowers can be used all over the field including at running back. There's room for both he and Mayer to soak up lots of targets, let's hope it happens.
Raiders won't be wasting Georgia product Brock Bowers' elite talent in Year 1
Nobody could have guessed Brock Bowers would end up with the Las Vegas Raiders at No. 13 overall in the 2024 NFL Draft. Even Bowers was shocked. That's
It's surprising that the Raiders and Eagles have become two of the teams I'm most interested in following this season. One or both may end up disappointing as usually happens, but both drafted uber-talented White players, two in the case of the Eagles so fingers crossed.
Snow Plow
Mentor
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2022
- Messages
- 877
Yes, Bowers should develop into another elite TE and hopefully Mayer is on the field with him.
According to the fantasypros.com season rankings, we have 16 of the top 20 TEs this year. Bowers has to have been the highest ranked recruit of our guys, so the sky is the limit for him if he continues to develop like the others have.
According to the fantasypros.com season rankings, we have 16 of the top 20 TEs this year. Bowers has to have been the highest ranked recruit of our guys, so the sky is the limit for him if he continues to develop like the others have.
sprintstar
Master
Both these guys will do well just need a good to great QB..Hurts is not the QB they need...
Snow Plow
Mentor
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2022
- Messages
- 877
Bowers and Mayer have our guys Minshew or O’Connell with the Raiders.
sprintstar
Master
Yup I know, my bad for not wording my post correctly...I meant Hurts is not a great QB and guys of this level will need very good to great QB's to utilize their enormous talents on all teams...
More positive coverage of Dylan Laube:
raiderswire.usatoday.com
www.si.com
Could Raiders RB Dylan Laube earn the No. 2 running back job in camp?
Could Raiders RB Dylan Laube earn the No. 2 running back job in camp?
raiderswire.usatoday.com
Underrated Raiders Rookie 'Stood Out' in First Training Camp Practice
The Las Vegas Raiders took the field together for the first time since minicamp in their first practice of 2024 training camp in Costa Mesa, California, on Wedn
www.si.com
Leonardfan
Hall of Famer
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2006
- Messages
- 24,587
Looking forward to Laube in the NFL. Hopefully he is utilized like Danny Woodhead. I think they have very similar skill sets.
Another Raiders rookie besides Dylan Laube who is getting early positive reviews is LB Tommy Eichenberg. I'm cautiously optimistic that Antonio Pierce will be one of the relatively fairer NFL head coaches. This article states about Eichenberg, quoting someone from SI who may or not know what he's talking about:
"Tommy Eichenberg, the powerful rookie linebacker out of Ohio State, has looked like a star. But now the pads come on. We know what he did at Ohio State, but this is not Ohio State. Now you look at Dylan Laube, he comes from New Hampshire, [this] is not New Hampshire. ... I know he has surprised people with his vision. https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/what-to-watch-for-when-raiders-throw-on-the-pads-01j3y2k5d6bn
"Tommy Eichenberg, the powerful rookie linebacker out of Ohio State, has looked like a star. But now the pads come on. We know what he did at Ohio State, but this is not Ohio State. Now you look at Dylan Laube, he comes from New Hampshire, [this] is not New Hampshire. ... I know he has surprised people with his vision. https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/what-to-watch-for-when-raiders-throw-on-the-pads-01j3y2k5d6bn
Another positive report on Tommy Eichenberg. The Raiders were smart enough to sign Robert Spillane and start him last season after years languishing in Pittsburgh as a widely denigrated backup. The consensus on him there as I heard supposed "expert" Matt Williamson say more than once was "He doesn't belong anywhere near an NFL field.":
www.silverandblackpride.com
Tommy Eichenberg standing out under Antonio Pierce’s, Robert Spillane’s guidance
5th-round pick has been making some noise in training camp
www.silverandblackpride.com
HaywoodZarathustra
Guru
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2020
- Messages
- 365
Sounds like Williamson doesn't belong anywhere near a media mouthpiece.
The rest of the Pittsburgh media was of the same mindset, and the coaching staff wasn't much better as the only time Spillane was allowed to start was due to injury. Credit to the Raiders for signing and starting Spillane and making him an integral part of their defense as it paid off big time and he's still greatly undervalued among fantasy football players despite his top level productivity last season in Vegas:
x.com
x.com
The over-the-top, ridiculously personal attacks on Spillane from the so-called "mainstream" media reached the point where they were honestly kind of creepy. "He doesn't belong anywhere near an NFL field" is the kind of extreme statement that should be reserved for mega-busts like JaMarcus Russell.
My wife said that the anti-Spillane hype machine from those guys reminded her of a catty woman ranting about a rival she was jealous of.
My wife said that the anti-Spillane hype machine from those guys reminded her of a catty woman ranting about a rival she was jealous of.
Warhawk_46
Master
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2020
- Messages
- 2,481
The agenda against Spillane was started because he stonewalled Derrick Henry on the goal line on national television. While at the moment it happened the announcers naturally were excited because it was a fantastic play, the marching orders were given and it has been a bashing session ever since.
The reason for this is the way he emasculated the premiere black running back of this current era (a player I find exciting and have no issue with). That type of physical dominance cannot be allowed.