Putting the current players into a more conventional defense would only make them suck a little less, and they'd be boring to watch. At least there's some entertainment value in watching them flamboyantly suck now.havokeff wrote: This is my point. The Raiders talent is fine, but they don't have the players to run the D that is implemented.
Shit, you could put Ronnie Lott, Charles Woodson, Deion Sanders and Rod Woodson in the Raiders secondary and they would still get torched with no pressure from the front four with little to no blitz help. (OK that group might be OK, but any other would get torched. )
That's true to some degree, but teams dump talented players or refuse to draft them all the time. The Raiders had a lot of success with Rich Gannon and that was only six years ago. The best QB in the league right now is Kurt Warner, who has a Ring, two MVPs, was never beaten out of a job and only taken off the field due to injury -but nobody wanted him as a starter. I think a smart evaluator of talent would make damn sure he checked the roster cuts from teams that suck.After all, if those teams could pick talent, they wouldn't suck so hard now would they?This is where Al Davis is stuck in the past. This type of roster won him three Superbowls and got them to 5. He still thinks he is the premier talent evaluator in the NFL and that other teams will cast off good, undeveloped, or even great, players for whatever reason they used to. (Bad attitude, criminal behavior, didn't fit the system) The thing is, the rest of the league caught up with him, and they all have the "Just Win Baby" mantra going. That is why you get players like Chris Henry, who is a complete FUCK UP, but has an ass load of talent, getting resigned to the team that cut him just for that behavior. It is all about winning for EVERY organization now, whereas it used to only be that way for Al and the Raiders. The players that get cut now, really aren't that good.
That's funny, Roger Staubach won two SBs with Reeves' system.Elway. Could NOT win the big one in Reeve's system, (It was only his talent that kept them competitive) but bring in Shanahan, who, oh by the way, implemented Montana and Young's system, and he wins two in a row.
I though that was a money decision.A relevant example of this is DeAngelo Hall. You can't deny that he is immensely talented, but when he was put into an incompatible system i.e. the Raiders, talent doesn't win out.