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He throws the deep ball far better than JC could. He’s a perfect fir for a team where even the fullback runs a 4.4 (No joke. Reese actually clocked it).

I think Carson Palmer is a franchise quarterback who is borderline elite….. (especially if Eli is being considered as such nowadays), Jason Campbell was a good game manager and all, but he was slow in his decision making, and lacked a live arm to stretch the field with all the speed we have on offense….I’m much happier now that we have CP3, because i know he makes our offense / team much better…I appreciate everything JC has done in helping turn the RAIDERS team around, but with that said i’m glad we made the move for Palmer…

But it was necessary. Kyle Boller was not the answer. After the KC game we now hold him in slightly higher esteem than Purple Drank. Only slightly.
We would be angrier about the picks if we hadn’t gotten such good value in this year’s draft.

kinda

but given the circumstances it was necessary. Things were on an upswing for our team and we were building up some positive momentum. After losing Campbell we risked losing not only the season but also all the progress we’ve made so far. We have a lot of young players on our team and their development would’ve been negatively affected.
At the end of the day I think that most fans are happy with Palmer’s performance so far. He is a significant upgrade over Campbell (remember that the Skins picked McNabb over Campbell) and he’s the best QB we’ve had since 2002. But only time will tell whether or not he is worth the price we’ve paid.

It changes every so often. Hue Jackson hates fantasy guys.

Early in the year it looked like it was Moore. Then DHB popped up. Then against denver it was Ford, and now it was Moore again.

We made out like a bandit draft wise this year. Wizniewski, Barksdale, Taiwan Jones and Moore are all proving their worth. Chekwa and DVD were coming along before injuries killed them.

But he has only started 2 games so far so things may be different on Sunday. Palmer is a prototypical Al Davis QB who has a strong arm and can make all the throws. He will stretch the field with his deep throws. But expect him to make some mistakes too because this will only be his 3rd start in a new offense after having 10 months off. He had 3 turnovers in his first start and 2 in the second one. We’re hoping that this will change as he gets more comfortable in our system.

so unless he falls away badly this week (not ruling this out) he should do pretty well against yr guys.

Not having Jacoby Ford won’t help though.

What other skill position guys from them are getting drafted?

Counting only offensive starters his senior year, I’d say Rodney Smith, Bert Reed, Andrew Datko, Zebrie Sanders, and Rodney Smith (drafted by KC); so a fair amount. But I have to point out that a new offensive system was put in Ponder’s senoir year from Jimbo Fisher taking over for legendary coach Bobby Bowden. The season was a frustrating one with recievers running poor routes and our tandem of backs being inconsistent. Ponder had an amazing amount of responsibility in that system, routinely lining up confused recievers (I’m looking at you Bert Reed) and having alot of options at the LOS. It’s safe to say that without him, that offense would have falled apart.

The key to this game lies in the run game for us. If we can establish our run game and don’t have to rely on Palmer heavily then our offense can score points while keeping turnovers to a minimum. Similarly if you guys can run on us (we’ve been inconsistent in stopping the run) then it will open room for Ponder to pass against our banged up secondary.

but you guys don’t have a flash secondary so I think, if Thunder and Lightning (Bush and our rookie Taiwan Jones) can run the ball we’ll win. It’s gonna depend on us stopping Peterson though.

For some reason our run D seems to lift against top RBs (we contained Arian Foster in Week 5) but not show up against lesser/platoon guys (McGahee and Jesus H. Tebow two weeks ago, Law Firm and Stevan Ridley for the Pats in Round 4 had their way with us). So based on this trend I say we turn up for AP.

No way we bring back Boller unless he persuades his wife to pose nude for Raider Nation at every home game. We’ll probably grab a FA QB if JC wants to seek greener pastures.

Being Australian, every time I go to the US people seem weirded out by the fact that I don’t talk like Steve Irwin or Paul Hogan.

and he would like to be a #1. He’ll probably get a good contract in the offseason because there are plenty of teams in need of a guy like him. We’d much rather keep DMC but we also need to have a good backup since DMC has an injury history. We’re hoping that rookie Taiwan Jones can pick up the slack next year.

I’m in no real position to joke about him given that they beat us with that game plan – but they also got a punt return TD, Carson was still finding his way with our offense and we’ve historically had issues with running QBs given our man to man scheme.

I’d like to say punching bag but I don’t really have the right at this point.

It’d be better, but we’ve lost 3 starting CBs over the course of the season. We signed a safety named Ndukwe off the street – injured after a week. We haven’t had an injury report with less than 10 all year.

Routt isn’t terrible, but he’s not Nnamdi. Our pass rush has been able to make up for it a bit, but it’s not as good as we like.

As for the newcomer Lito Sheppard, he seems pretty good.

We are susceptible to a QB who can make plays with his feet – see Tebow – but not just on rollouts and the like.

It won’t happen. There is some merit to it but it won’t happen. Not only is he the public face of the franchise and one of the fan favorites but no team will take his contract in a trade.

but I can’t believe yr management would unless he asked for it. Especially after he only played one year of a new deal and his trade would probably cause a riot in the Twin Cities.