Browns Gameday Thread
Friends, belated thanks for your well wishes during my travels, I was on the run but it didn't go unnoticed.
I'm back in the saddle but nothing seems to have changed, as this Browns game is off to a nightmare Clown Car start in the first quarter.
Still plenty of time, but it's not looking good. We shall see. GO RAIDERS!
posted by Raider Take at 1:47 PM
6 Comments:
Honestly, what did we expect? This team is product of its own doing. A long off-season of new GM and coaching hires, too many personnel changes, mind-numbing playcalling and poor execution. I know some will say injuries have cost them. Sure, but what's different from before the injuries?
Ashton Jeanty is a decent coach and new offensive scheme away from being a star. Jacobs went thru the same nonsense with the Raiders. He had off years when they used zone blocking and he thrived during seasons with power blocking. Hopefully, the pendulum will swing back for Jeanty.
What a day for Shedeur Sanders. First NFL start! He did not need to be spectacular to show up the Raiders. He had at least two long pass plays and moved well, throwing on the run. Not bad, and certainly good enough to make the Raiders look foolish for not taking a flier on him.
Meanwhile, the Raiders have no QB.
IMO, the Raiders looked spectacularly bad today and on the season. I can't imagine Pete Carroll survives this year. How can he?
So much to say but how about this…Amy Trask is saying Jim Gray became a part owner as part of the Brady deal (I had no idea) and is a problem behind the scenes.
Can we be at least a little normal in some ways? Can Mark hire a President of Football Operations and have the GM report into him? If Brady wants to be that guy (I’d have reservations), no more working for Fox and being coy about it; it’s a full time job and it’s important.
Gray’s role should be to count the money he’s making from his investment, nothing more.
10 sacks. Imagine misreading this O-line so badly that you draft an RB in the first round.
I thought hard about it and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse offensive line take the field for the Raiders. They miss assignments AND get overpowered, just inadequate in every way. And since some of them looked at least decent last season even as rookies (Glaze, JPJ), coaching sticks out as the major issue in addition to talent of course.
I can’t imagine Brendan Carroll would not have been at least demoted by now if the dynamics of that decision were not so awkward for Pete.
Thanks for calling out that Jim Gray report. If there's truth to that, it would explain a lot.
Chip Kelly fired. Two coordinators fired in three weeks, signaling another epic fail by the Raiders. Pete Carroll is next. No way Carroll can stay and hand off a rebuild to another HC. The Raiders are proof of that. Any HC worth his salt wants his own players.
This also signals the first major failure in the Tom Brady era. How fitting that Shedeur Sanders beat the Raiders in his NFL debut... after Brady prevented the Raiders from drafting Sanders (7x).
IMO, the Raiders should gracefully end the Carroll experiment today and hire Patrick Graham as interim HC. Let Olsen call plays on offense, using a power blocking scheme, and play every player who might have a future with the Raiders, including and especially Rogers and Grant.
But there's more amiss than meets the eye. As RT pointed out, the misread of the O-line and other personnel moves is stunning. Where's Spytek fall in this mess. Here's a stat... Bech and Thorton Jr have combined for under 15 catches this year. Trading Meyers didn't help either of these guys.
The 2025 Raiders team is one of the most mismanaged and poorly coached teams we've had the displeasure of watching. And it's not even close. At least other bad Raiders teams were scrappy and competitive. If we put this entire Brady/Carroll/Spytek/Kelly experiment under a forensic microscope, I think we'd all be shocked how bad it truly is.
For now, the "Time to Compete" era should be quickly put to rest. No more pretending it's going to work.
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