Recent content by Ed Wood

Spoken like a true Pierce apologist. I would have expected nothing less from you. Good work!

Man, just watched the Campbell press conference. Ultimate respect for that dude. As a Raider fan, I hope whoever they hire can be half the coach and stand up guy he is.

I meant to write this after the Raiders hire Johnson but I decided to ask it now: To those who wanted to see Pierce at least get a chance to start the 2025 season, how many of you are sorry Davis canned him now? This is like that Mad Men bit where an American Airlines jet crashes into Jamaica...

To me this is what makes Johnson even more appealing. What was the weak link on the Lions offense? To me, it was the QB. Imagine what Johnson could do with an elite one. If he can make lemonade with Goff, he can make it with O'Connell.* *I'm an O'Connell backer but this is in no way implying...

So let's see: Tuesday, fire Pierce. Take a couple days/breaths. Friday, fire Telesco. Take a couple days/breaths. Monday: The Raiders have announced they are trading Maxx Crosby to the Kansas City Chiefs in exchange for the a 2nd round pick in 2025 and a conditional 3rd round selection in 2026.

I'll add I guess the failure on Telesco's part to add a quality QB (and to compound the problem by adding a crappy one) played a large role in his demise. I guess Brady and/or Davis definitely saw the glass as half empty with him.

Absolute stunner IMO. As much as I wanted to see Pierce go I wanted to see Telesco stay. He had some poor drafts with the Chargers but his first with the Raiders was top notch and he deserved another year for sure based on it. I see Brady's fingerprints all over these two moves. I hope he's got...

A gerbil would be an upgrade. A brain damaged gerbil would be an upgrade. A brainless gerbil would be a wash. A brainless gerbil who had arms and could throw darts at a dartboard would have done a better job at in-game decision making and time management than Pierce. But seriously Tafur and...

Yes!!!!! Terrible of Davis to wait a day and leave Pierce hanging though. As Jim Bouton recalled in his awesome book "Ball Four" about a manager who waited to take him out after Bouton was getting shelled for a number of innings: "What took you so long?"

🤮 In that division in particular that's a terrible decision IMO if true. He was 5-4 last year, 4-13 this year and was a demonstrably worse coach in 2024. He made some head scratching decisions decision in 2023. In 2024 he had way too many WTH moments. I'm not sure how he corrects on the on field...

This. Unless Wes Phillips comes with Darnold I'd stay away. Cousins appears to be cooked. Evidence this year suggests if you're a 35+ QB you don't come back from an Achilles tear.

Something that fries me about the last play that has nothing to do with clapping or the refs or anything of that nature. It's the fact the Raiders are scared to death of Mahomes (or at least Pierce is). Sure, he did something amazing with 13 seconds left in one game and has engineered a number...

Interesting and makes sense. As a casual observer of football for 7 decades I know a false start kills everything that follows it. But about everything I've read and heard about this play in the press says they ended up getting the call right so I don't know. I think it's telling how O'Connell...

Was just coming in to post this--with a twist. AOC should have started from the get-go this season. He was the incumbent going in and Minshew did nothing to earn the starting role. I'm still stunned Pierce went with Minshew considering AOC played a large part in him getting the "permanent" head...

I have visions of, in the hands of a capable head coach, OC and QB, Bowers and Mayer being Gronk/Hernandez lite. 2010: Gronk 42/546/10 Hernandez 45/563/6 2011: Gronk 90/1327/17 Hernandez 79/910/7 2012: Gronk 55/790/11 Hernandez 51/483/5 I'd even, gulp, sign McDaniels up for OC if he could make...