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Jerry Mac's case against Art (also Brooks to start vs the Jets/ Sapp info)
From Jerry Mac's blog, he'll make a case to retain Art tomorrow...
The case against Shell
Posted by Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer on Wednesday at 5:00 pm
Art Shell presided over the worst offensive showing in the history of the Oakland Raiders and most of the problems were of his doing.
The Raiders have some promise, but it's virtually all on the defensive side of the ball, where Rob Ryan operated in a separate universe.
You don't blow out a coach in one year unless the results were so incomprehensibly terrible that it was made abundantly clear there is no future in the status quo.
Like the Raiders.
Shell promised a power running game. The Raiders can't run or don't run, ranked No. 28 in the NFL.
Shell talked of a return to the vertical passing game. They have no pass play over 57 yards and no receiver with 10 or more catches averaging more than 13.9 per reception.
Shell hired inexperienced line coaches in Irv Eatman and Jackie Slater, then revamped the blocking scheme, eliminating virtually all zone schemes for straight-up, man-to-man, power blocking. All downhill, always advancing. The Raiders can't open holes for their runners and have given up a staggering 70 sacks.
He wasted no time in making his first mistake, appointing Tom Walsh as his offensive coordinator. Walsh hadn't coached in the NFL since 1994, the year he and Shell were run off together in a palace coups by Mike White and friends.
The Raiders struggled mightily, made little in the way of adjutments and finally Walsh flopped positions with tight ends coach John Shoop, who had been an offensive coordinator with the Chicago Bears.
All indications are that Shell didn't want to make this move, and that it was done at the best of Davis. Shoop has shortened up passing routes and been more creative, but hasn't been able to undo the damage done to the foundation which was laid by Walsh and Shell.
Proper clock management and correct use of instant replay has been a season-long mystery. The Raiders are so disorganized offensively they routinely get to the fourth quarter without a full complement iftime outs.
Shell's handling of the roster was as bad as his execution of philosophy.
There were problems early on with Jerry Porter, and rather than work to solve them, Porter became a Raider in exile. It's hard to imagine the me-first Porter being a sympathetic figure, but Shell managed to pull it off. He got one reception for 19 yards out of what should have been his No. 2 receiver.
Porter got off on a bad foot with a bad face-to-face meeting with Shell last April. Randy Moss never said anything inflammatory to Shell directly, so he got a free pass.
Moss started the season talking about how things were "fishy'' on the Raiders before the opener, and managed to say something every other week which was construed as negative about the Raiders.
At a press conference announcing an award for college return specialists, Moss broke a silence with local reporters long enough to say the reason he was dropping so many passes was because he was unhappy and in a bad mood.
Shell chose not to deal with this issue, either, and Moss went on his un-merry way dropping balls and looking disinterested until he suffered an ankle injury against Cincinnati, one that apparently has finished his season.
Not long after Walsh was demoted, Shell spoke to the local media about his concerns over an element of the Raiders front office which was trashing his tenure as coach behind his back with anonymous quotes to the media.
The man Shell was talking about was personnel executive Mike Lombardi. Two problems _ Shell never named Lombardi, and by going public with his concerns he was doing something he urges players not to do _ go to the media with their complaints.
If you're Davis, you add it all up, write it all off to a mistake you made with the best of intentions, and move on.
Next: The case to retain Shell
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Wednesday's news and notes:
– QB Aaron Brooks practiced without pain Wednesday, and barring a setback, will start for the Raiders against the Jets Sunday.
– WR Randy Moss did not practice and was termed by Shell "very doubtful'' even as the injury report listed him as questionable. Whatever the official designation, Shell said Johnnie Morant would start with Doug Gabriel getting on the field in three wide receiver sets.
– DT Warren Sapp expects to have a chat with management regarding his future shortly after the season ends.
"I plan on having a sit-down or talk with everybody upstairs, seeing what they're planning for me because I know what I have planned for me,'' Sapp said. "Just going to sit down, have a nice conversation and see what everybody is thinking. See if we're all on the same page. If not, then we'll go different ways. If so, then we'll find a way to come back and put this thing on and go for another 25 weeks.''
– Sapp said it's not his place to make reccomendations to Davis regarding the coaching staff. Brooks said essentially the same thing but said he believes in Shell.
Running back LaMont Jordan didn't say anything negative regarding Shell but made it clear he liked the way John Shoop went about the business of running an offense, as opposed to Tom Walsh.
"I know that Shoop has the guts to try new things,'' Jordan said. "Shoop is the kind of coach where if you say, `I can do this, put me in a position to do this,' then he's going to say, `you asked for it, there you go. Make it work.'
"You don't want a coach where as a player you have no input. And I feel that's how things were at the beginning of the season. And it's one of those things that carried over through the entire season. Offenisvely, we let out defense down. We let our team down. And the only thing we can do is come back next year, and whatever happens, happens.''
– WR Ronald Curry was the named the winner of the team's Ed Bloch Courage Award, one of 32 recipients from around the league.
From Jerry Mac's blog, he'll make a case to retain Art tomorrow...
The case against Shell
Posted by Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer on Wednesday at 5:00 pm
Art Shell presided over the worst offensive showing in the history of the Oakland Raiders and most of the problems were of his doing.
The Raiders have some promise, but it's virtually all on the defensive side of the ball, where Rob Ryan operated in a separate universe.
You don't blow out a coach in one year unless the results were so incomprehensibly terrible that it was made abundantly clear there is no future in the status quo.
Like the Raiders.
Shell promised a power running game. The Raiders can't run or don't run, ranked No. 28 in the NFL.
Shell talked of a return to the vertical passing game. They have no pass play over 57 yards and no receiver with 10 or more catches averaging more than 13.9 per reception.
Shell hired inexperienced line coaches in Irv Eatman and Jackie Slater, then revamped the blocking scheme, eliminating virtually all zone schemes for straight-up, man-to-man, power blocking. All downhill, always advancing. The Raiders can't open holes for their runners and have given up a staggering 70 sacks.
He wasted no time in making his first mistake, appointing Tom Walsh as his offensive coordinator. Walsh hadn't coached in the NFL since 1994, the year he and Shell were run off together in a palace coups by Mike White and friends.
The Raiders struggled mightily, made little in the way of adjutments and finally Walsh flopped positions with tight ends coach John Shoop, who had been an offensive coordinator with the Chicago Bears.
All indications are that Shell didn't want to make this move, and that it was done at the best of Davis. Shoop has shortened up passing routes and been more creative, but hasn't been able to undo the damage done to the foundation which was laid by Walsh and Shell.
Proper clock management and correct use of instant replay has been a season-long mystery. The Raiders are so disorganized offensively they routinely get to the fourth quarter without a full complement iftime outs.
Shell's handling of the roster was as bad as his execution of philosophy.
There were problems early on with Jerry Porter, and rather than work to solve them, Porter became a Raider in exile. It's hard to imagine the me-first Porter being a sympathetic figure, but Shell managed to pull it off. He got one reception for 19 yards out of what should have been his No. 2 receiver.
Porter got off on a bad foot with a bad face-to-face meeting with Shell last April. Randy Moss never said anything inflammatory to Shell directly, so he got a free pass.
Moss started the season talking about how things were "fishy'' on the Raiders before the opener, and managed to say something every other week which was construed as negative about the Raiders.
At a press conference announcing an award for college return specialists, Moss broke a silence with local reporters long enough to say the reason he was dropping so many passes was because he was unhappy and in a bad mood.
Shell chose not to deal with this issue, either, and Moss went on his un-merry way dropping balls and looking disinterested until he suffered an ankle injury against Cincinnati, one that apparently has finished his season.
Not long after Walsh was demoted, Shell spoke to the local media about his concerns over an element of the Raiders front office which was trashing his tenure as coach behind his back with anonymous quotes to the media.
The man Shell was talking about was personnel executive Mike Lombardi. Two problems _ Shell never named Lombardi, and by going public with his concerns he was doing something he urges players not to do _ go to the media with their complaints.
If you're Davis, you add it all up, write it all off to a mistake you made with the best of intentions, and move on.
Next: The case to retain Shell
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday's news and notes:
– QB Aaron Brooks practiced without pain Wednesday, and barring a setback, will start for the Raiders against the Jets Sunday.
– WR Randy Moss did not practice and was termed by Shell "very doubtful'' even as the injury report listed him as questionable. Whatever the official designation, Shell said Johnnie Morant would start with Doug Gabriel getting on the field in three wide receiver sets.
– DT Warren Sapp expects to have a chat with management regarding his future shortly after the season ends.
"I plan on having a sit-down or talk with everybody upstairs, seeing what they're planning for me because I know what I have planned for me,'' Sapp said. "Just going to sit down, have a nice conversation and see what everybody is thinking. See if we're all on the same page. If not, then we'll go different ways. If so, then we'll find a way to come back and put this thing on and go for another 25 weeks.''
– Sapp said it's not his place to make reccomendations to Davis regarding the coaching staff. Brooks said essentially the same thing but said he believes in Shell.
Running back LaMont Jordan didn't say anything negative regarding Shell but made it clear he liked the way John Shoop went about the business of running an offense, as opposed to Tom Walsh.
"I know that Shoop has the guts to try new things,'' Jordan said. "Shoop is the kind of coach where if you say, `I can do this, put me in a position to do this,' then he's going to say, `you asked for it, there you go. Make it work.'
"You don't want a coach where as a player you have no input. And I feel that's how things were at the beginning of the season. And it's one of those things that carried over through the entire season. Offenisvely, we let out defense down. We let our team down. And the only thing we can do is come back next year, and whatever happens, happens.''
– WR Ronald Curry was the named the winner of the team's Ed Bloch Courage Award, one of 32 recipients from around the league.
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