The Experts are WAY too easy on the Oakland Raiders this offseason.
While any Raiders fan should be pleased with Oakland's house cleaning this offseason, they should also be plenty worried about coaching, age, quality and defensive scheme.
The only thing Norv Turner has proven over his tenure as a head coach in the NFL, is that he has no business being a head coach in the NFL. He's a very good OC, but a worthless HC.
Ted Washington has serious fragility problems now that he's gotten older. Warren Sapp takes too many plays off (something you'd never see him do in his prime).
And what is Ray Buchannan supposed to bring to the table? He's both drastically slowed -- this goes way beyond "a step" -- and prone to late career injuries. Is it supposed to be leadership? Sorry, the presence of Norv Turner makes player leadership a waste of time, because he can't be overcome.
Neither Troy Hambrick nor Amos Zereoue belongs on any NFL roster. Not as starters, not as situational guys, not as water boys.
Washington and Sapp would have been pretty nice side by side in a 4-3. But Oakland, thanks to a Turner stroke of idiocy genius, is switching to a 3-4 and neither player has enough left in him to be a difference making NT.
The only thing saving SD from being the AFC West whipping boy in the '04 season is the Oakland Raiders. I don't understand why The Experts seem to feel a need to continue hyping what can only be a dismal '04 Raiders team.
Not that I'm saddened by any of this. I'm just sayin', Yo.
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