veteran players
Oakland Raiders Hats , there were none dealt at the trade deadline. The Raiders were said to be listening to offers for players such as Bruce Irvin, Rashaan
Melvin, Karl Joseph, and Kelechi Osemele, but the trade deadline came and went
with no deals made.There was a lot of talk about the one trade the Raiders did
make, however. That was the trade 8 days ago that had Amari Cooper go to Dallas
for a 2019 first round pick. Two trades today in particular had many invoking
the Raiders trade of Cooper. The Broncos trade of Demarius Thomas to the Texans
for a 4th round pick and the Lions trade of Golden Tate to the Eagles for a
third round pick.Outside of their positions, there aren’t a lot of similarities
between these three players. Thomas and Tate are both 30 years old. Cooper is
24. Thomas has a big contract for an aging player and Tate’s contract is up
after this season.Even still, there’s no question the Raiders got great
compensation for Amari Cooper, especially when you consider the Cowboys are
currently out of the playoff picture and could be giving up a somewhat high
first round pick unless they turn things around.There are certainly scarier
trades the Raiders have made and could’ve made. Well played, ESPN.Follow
@LeviDamienFootball Outsiders: ‘Nothing scarier’ for Raiders than Jon Gruden’s
old-school coaching mentality In the last few weeks, the good folks at Football
Outsiders have been answering a series of questions from each SBNation football
blog, including us here at Silver and Black Pride. This week, we will publish
the answers they provided to our questions.The Raiders have completely
overhauled nearly everything about the team this offseason, but the most glaring
change was the hiring of former coach Jon Gruden to resume the role he was
jettisoned from in a trade over 15 years ago. Today’s question will focus on
that change.Football Outsiders is known for being an industry leader in the
field of football analytics and are responsible for the invention and
implementation of several new statistics
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Jon Gruden has put an emphasis on bringing an old-school mentality to the
Raiders this year. How do you see his philosophy playing out against modern
defensive schemes and players who may not have even been in organized football
the last time he coached?Well, that’s certainly a take and a half. It’s not
unreasonable that someone without any emotional ties to the Raiders would feel
this way, considering how much the game has changed since Jon Gruden’s heyday in
his first stint as Raiders coach.It’s difficult to even hold a position on
whether Jon Gruden has new and exciting plays in his “skunkworks”, because the
plays Gruden has run in the first two preseason games have been the most basic
and uninteresting ones imaginable. And yet, even that has been streets ahead of
the junior high offense Todd Downing was running last year. We really have no
idea what Gruden has in his bag of tricks for this season and the first people
who will get to see them are the Rams in Week 1.The NFL was a very different
place in 1998. Hitting was allowed, and the league was far more rush oriented.
That year, the Broncos won the Super Bowl, and they rushed 525 times with
Terrell Davis reaching over 2,000 yards rushing. John Elway started 12 of their
16 games, and the team passed only 491 times. Such was the nature of a prime
Mike Shanahan offense, even with the prolific Elway at the helm.In the modern
game, offensive schemes are far more pass-heavy, but when you ask a coach what
he needs to do to win
Womens Customized Oakland Raiders Jerseys , he will almost always say “Run the football and play great defense.” To me, that’s what it means to take it
back to 1998. You can do that in today’s NFL if you have a great offensive line,
a great stable of running backs, and a quarterback who can sell play action and
keep the defense from stacking the box.Jon Gruden would love nothing more than
to line up in a Power I formation and run the ball down his opponents’ throat
and break their will. But nobody can tell me that in the ten-plus years Gruden
spent in the Monday Night Football booth, he didn’t pay attention to the way the
game was evolving and that he didn’t come up with a few new tricks of his own.
The amount of time and money spent upgrading the Raiders’ receiving corps shows
me that Gruden isn’t going to be Darrell K. Royal, running the ball 50 times a
game.There have been plenty of innovative coaches in the NFL. Sid Gillman
emphasized the deep vertical passing game, Paul Brown and his protege Bill Walsh
invented the West Coast offense, Andy Reid emphasized the use of running backs
in the passing game, and Bill Belichick’s borderline psychotic attention to
detail and game planning and finding new and exciting ways to cheat has earned
him five Super Bowl rings. But usually it comes down to playing with discipline,
good clock management and having better players than the other team while making
adjustments in-game to exploit the opponent’s weakness. There is absolutely no
reason that a smash-mouth approach can’t work in today’s NFL, especially when
you have skill players like the Raiders do and a quarterback as talented and
cerebral as Derek Carr. It certainly can work how Jon Gruden envisions it, but
will it? We shall see.
