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The mystery continues... I think the only reason there's to keep Murray on the bench is they know he's something special, but the first pick is looming in their minds.
Traded him away some weeks ago, but am still a fan. I saw 2 or 3 rushes yesterday and he looked so much better than the other crap the Raiders put out there, it wasn't even funny. He looked decisive with a good burst and I don't think he left a single yard out there.
Why MJD and McFadden are still on the team after the trade deadline is beyond anything logical that I can comprehend. This team could use the throw away pick from a team like Arizona or something. I don't think he has any problems. The Raiders are just stupid.
I was at the game yesterday. Not much to say really, his first two carries were the two best rushing attempts of this entire season for the Raiders. The holes were decent but he still got banged around a bit at the line (where McFadden and MJD most assuredly would have been dropped) but he showed decisiveness and hit the hole hard and plowed into the secondary with surprising quickness.
Murray could be very good but I doubt he's special enough to win games on his own.
They won't start him
Improving the team = getting a better draft pick at this point.
They are going to have a top 3 pick no matter what - Murray isn't Super Man. They need to assess their future by getting some of the younger players more playing time. If Murray looks great down the stretch, then they don't need to "waste" a high pick on Gurley or Gordon. There's plenty of ways to improve a team.
Can you post something if you hear he's going to get touches this week? I would probably roll the dice on him if I knew the volume was going to be there.
Will do. The only source I have for this switch so far is Dodds. I'm looking for confirmation.
This was taken from a facebook Raider fanpage account. FWIW
Dropped DMC for him, looking pretty smart so far. Not hard given how terrible McFadden looked on Sunday.
I just did the exact same thing. And I was using dmc sometimes at flex. I'm totally comfortable with this decision.
I'm just going to throw out the idea of garbage time here. Mychal Rivera had some nice games in a 3 week stretch and apparently Murray does catch the ball.
I did the same, and it doesn't even really matter what happens now. At least with LM, there is the potential to hope for a possible upside (hey, it's no worse a redundancy than the ubiquitous "revert back").
I wouldnt call it terrible. They play a large number of poor offenses which means they should be in most games (within reason for Oakland)
If anyone was thinking that, I would totally agree.
Looking at KC's schedule I see only two RB's they have faced that I would consider legit - Gore and Lynch. While neither scored a TD, both rushed for over 100yds. Now the questions are - Is Murray legit and will he get enough touches for us to find out? Hope I can get more clarity before tomorrows kickoff - I could use a lift.
Maybe something to do with it being a short preparation week?
"I still expect this to be a McFadden week" were his exact words. Take it FWIW.
Oh BTW, it was this guy.
