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This guy thinks Tarvaris Jackson would start for the Raiders over Pryor.
You are overestimating the Raiders defense, and underestimating the Redskins offense. This should be a shootout.
It does look like Pryor's best games are against good offenses rather than bad defenses... but the raiders defense is probably going to give up major yardage to RG3 and Morris. AND the Redskins D is bad. I'd say this is a combination of good matchup criteria for him, assuming there's some clarity about him starting by Friday/Saturday.
Three different starters on that line last night due to injury. What can they do? Brutalized by injuries.
IIRC, he did remain in the game for two plays after that hit, including a near TD pass to Streater at the GL
He said that he didn't remember the hit, he didn't say anything about remembering what happened after the hit.
There wasn't much talent to begin with Veldheer and Wisniewski (who is still somewhat of an unknown) were the only players of note going into the season. Everyone else is/was a journeyman, has-been or never-was. Maybe Menalik Watson will be a revelation but if he isn't they still need to invest one or two more high draft picks, or spend some FA dollars to shore up the line. Most of the current starters should, at best, be reserves.
Every good o line in the league has journeymen on it. The line isn't a finished product, but one hopes they have the C and LT spot filled. Those are the toughest to fill.
They sure do. Brisiel is a passable journeyman, Pashos may still have some gas in the tank for spurts throughout the game but his best stuff is behind him. Gurode's best stuff is definitely behind him and Barnes never lived up to expectations. The depth is non-existant.
It doesn't matter if Pryor says he "feels great". It's not up to him to say if he can play or not. He's got to go through a battery of tests over several days. It's a short week, the Washington Redskins gameplan is already being installed, and the likelihood of switching back to Pryor later in the week seems incredibly optimistic.
Except he didn't actually say that, he said he didn't remember taking the hit on that specific play, he didn't say that he remembers little from the game.
It appears to me that he is talking about the hit, not the entire game. And Rotoworld (among other sources) also interpreted it that way:
Rotoworld's interpretations generally suck, and are incredibly biased.He clearly says "I heard our team fought well". He doesn't remember the game, or he doesn't remember how it ended. Either way, that's a problem.
Yes, he heard they fought well after he left the game and was being evaluated in the locker room. Barring a clarification from Pryor or the team we will have to agree to disagree on what he meant.
Fair enough, that may have been what he meant. It may not have any bearing on if he plays or not in any case.
Unlikely to play now.
the full story roto world is quoting is below... I hope the last underlined part is confirmed before early kickoffs....
I agree with this - as I posted in this thread earlier I think, there's something about Pryor that makes it hard for people to move on from their negative preconceptions about him, no matter what he shows us on the field. It's as if the fact that he's not always the most technically sound QB offends some people's football sensibilities or something, and he doesn't fit the mold of what people regard aesthetically as a "NFL QB" so he therefore can't be one (similar to dare I say it, Tim Tebow). Even in preseason, i was surprised by how little enthusiasm there was for him in the fantasy community generally as a waiver wire pick up - some of that no doubt is due to depth of QB this year, so most people didn't view him as a necessary pick up in the way that an emerging RB would be, but still, there wasn't much optimism and most people seemed to begrudgingly say, yeah pick him up if you're in a 2QB 32 team league or something, but expect him to be terrible.
Very well put, RushHour. I was going to post something similar but didn't know how to articulate it. To take it a step further, it then becomes somewhat fashionable to pile on and bash the guy. It's almost as if Pryor is supposed to be some kind of guilty pleasure for the people who actually like him as a player. Now you'll have to excuse me while I go listen to my WHAM greatest hits CD.
I think it's a combination of (1) playing for the raiders (2) being a supp draft pick (3) being kicked out of OSU and (4) the tebow-effect as stated above.
His mechanics and passing ability (touch, accuracy, arm strength) look much more like an NFL QB than Tim Tebow's ever has.
