Rich Gannon wrote:They (Raiders) don't get big plays out of their defense. No interceptions, no sacks. It's hard to win in this league if you aren't doing that.
On offense, they're 31st in rushing. What was a major problem a year ago -- they were the worst team in the National Football League at running the ball, the worst team in rushing attempts, they're still not running the ball effectively enough.
And if you really want to get into the nitty-gritty, just look at the Raiders' competitiveness and success when I was in there and when I was not in there.
The biggest thing is -- as an outsider looking in, which I am now -- you look at this football team: Where are the guys, the Ray Lewises, the Ed Reeds, the forceful leaders, dynamic personalities? When I look at them, that's my first question. Who's accepting ownership? Who's accepting responsibility for this?
RACK fucking Gannon.
Fuck I miss that cat.......
Some other good shit here:
John Ryan: "As a player, one of your main points of contention was that we in the press box, and even guys like Phil Simms and Joe Theismann in the TV booth, made snap judgments about what went wrong without knowing what was supposed to happen. Have you gotten comfortable calling things just by the way they look from upstairs?"
Rich Gannon:``Oh, yeah. I know the system in Oakland. I watch a lot of film each week. I pride myself on still doing that and keeping up. There's going to be times when the ball is thrown down the middle. You have to make your best assumption, and you say that. But there's things that Simms, Theismann, guys who played the game can see about coverages or blitzes. I could always tell those things, from the sidelines or from the press box.''
Christ-dude is a fucking machine......he still watches gametape and breaks shit down? Fucking superb.
