So? What you may not understand is that Hue Jackson is talking about winning "now", not hoarding draft picks for a long slow build.
This is stupid. Keeping your top picks is not 'hoarding'.
It may or may not work out, but the fact is, there is more than one way to win in the NFL especially these days of rampant parity. As I previously posted, if it works the way we want it to work out, who cares about the lost picks. In fact, my fervent hope is that that 2013 2nd pick turns out to be a resounding 1st rounder. BTW, the Raiders will collect about 4 mid round picks for the loss of free agents.
Well, first of all, mid-round compensatory picks aren't nearly as valuable as 1st and 2nd round picks. Second of all, you get those picks whether you trade away your 1st and 2nd round picks or not, so it hardly seems relevant. Third, you spent your 3rd round pick next year in the supplemental draft to get Pryor. Ya know. A guy you plan on playing as a QB. Apparently your #2 and #4 for 2012 are gone already as well.
Not even willing to entertain the possibility that it may work out brilliantly, huh? Keep assuring me your opinions aren't based at least 90% or more on hater-aide and about 10% or less on objective knowledge of the game.
Objective knowledge of the game? As if that's something you're displaying in any capacity yourself?
The #2 pick only escalates to a #1 if the Raiders make the AFC title game. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that won't happen. But a first and a second round pick is still too much for Carson Palmer. A second is probably pushing it.
Let's see, Palmer has never actually won a playoff game. Have you watched him play the last couple of years? He actually hasn't even been that good. Statistically he's not even in the top 50 percent of starting QBs in the league over the last couple of years. He really hasn't had a good year since 2006.
Hue helped recruit him out of high school, and was on the Bengals staff for a little bit when Palmer was starting. He said something like "it's not about the statistics, it's about the person". Yeah, really sounds like Hue has evaluated Palmer objectively
And they didn't have time to evaluate Palmer's game film from the past few years. They had what? 48 hours to get the trade done after the injury? Presumably a lot of that was actually working out the details of the trade. Were they pushing for Palmer during the offseason? I don't remember hearing any kind of talk. Al Davis has died since then. The Raiders are actually looking for a GM. And that makes sense, because you pretty much have to be a team that doesn't have a GM to think this trade is a good idea.
Then there's the fact that it's not easy coming in off the street to a new team and start playing regular season games a few days later with essentially no preparation. No time to build chemistry with your receivers. No training camp. No preseason. Just a couple of practices.
And not to mention he's getting like 7-8 million guaranteed... He'll make something like 12 million next year. There's a very real possibility that the Raiders will have to waive him before one or both of those draft picks even comes around. That is a lot of money for Palmer.
It's such an obvious panic move. Of course it's a bad move. If the Raiders somehow make some waves in the playoffs it's STILL a bad move. Sometimes really bad choices work out. People have driven drunk to a casino and proceeded to win thousands of dollars. That doesn't make drunk driving a GOOD FUCKING IDEA.
Aren't you a Broncos fan?
