Las Vegas Raiders General Thread

I echo your guys sentients. Absolutely ******** he's not a starter as a slot WR. Raiders replace One honkey with another.
 
Leonardfan said:
I’ve found preseason football to be a lot more entertaining and enjoyable to watch just because White athletes get a few more opportunities.
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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..
 
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 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.

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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
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Don Wassall said:
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.

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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
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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 unstoppable
 
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.
 
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.
 
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...
 
Hoping we see him quite a bit in 3rd down situations. Seems like he’s a natural receiver.
 
Looking forward to Laube in the NFL. Hopefully he is utilized like Danny Woodhead. I think they have very similar skill sets.
 
Raiders could be a pleasant team to root for if they use laube, along with their stud te’s appropriately
 
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
 
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.":

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Tommy Eichenberg standing out under Antonio Pierce’s, Robert Spillane’s guidance

5th-round pick has been making some noise in training camp
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HaywoodZarathustra said:
Sounds like Williamson doesn't belong anywhere near a media mouthpiece.
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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:

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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.
 
Gator Dad said:
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.
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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.
 
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