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Q: Which Offensive Tackle from the last 4 drafts would you most want?

Jammal Brown 12%

Robert Gallery 42%

Jordan Gross 14%

D'Brickshaw Ferguson 32%


This kinda surprised me...what's everyone else's take?
 
That is who I would want too but it is surprising because they had almost 9000 votes across the country.
 
interesting...

hopefully Gallery will develop more this year now that he'll be under the guidance of Shell and Slater. He really needs to learn how to discipline himself and hold his own on the line
 
Gallery played great before Colletto came here. Now that the madness is over, I pully expect him to return to form.
 
Crow said:
Gallery played great before Colletto came here. Now that the madness is over, I pully expect him to return to form.
That's what I was thinking....isn't it great to get rid of rubbish?? :p
 
Colleto may be a good coach in Denver, Atlanta, or even in Washington. The Raiders and zone blocking just don't fit.
 
TommyGirl said:
Colleto may be a good coach in Denver, Atlanta, or even in Washington. The Raiders and zone blocking just don't fit.
Art didn't seem to keen on that zone blocking scheme.

You know he's old school. Line up and block your guy -- period. Dominate.

``...the greatness of the Radiers"...
 
You know, the Raiders and zone blocking would work if we were willing to accept losing for a couple seasons while we got the system down. Al Davis is unwilling to accept losing, so he's unwilling to accept waiting for the line to get a groove. Also, we don't draft the kind of lineman who work well in a zone scheme (though I don't know if we've drafted linemen who played a zone scheme before - I'd guess we don't).
 
Rupert said:
You know, the Raiders and zone blocking would work if we were willing to accept losing for a couple seasons while we got the system down. Al Davis is unwilling to accept losing, so he's unwilling to accept waiting for the line to get a groove. Also, we don't draft the kind of lineman who work well in a zone scheme (though I don't know if we've drafted linemen who played a zone scheme before - I'd guess we don't).
Haven't you had to accept losing for the past 3 seasons?? So....Al has to deal with it as well....but why would you want to put yourself through it even one more season?
 
Rupert said:
You know, the Raiders and zone blocking would work if we were willing to accept losing for a couple seasons while we got the system down. Al Davis is unwilling to accept losing, so he's unwilling to accept waiting for the line to get a groove. Also, we don't draft the kind of lineman who work well in a zone scheme (though I don't know if we've drafted linemen who played a zone scheme before - I'd guess we don't).


I don't remember Atlanta taking very long to make the conversion. Maybe they had the right kind of players in house and didn't have to make wholesale changes. We've never had the shifty, undersized "technicians" it takes to run that scheme. We'd pretty much need to draft 3-4 new guys just to get off the ground. Shell will definitely get us back to the old school smash mouth style of O-line play. We should have a good foundation for that, although I still think we need to sign or draft an "anchor". Somebody who anchors the line and gives you the confidence to run to his side on a 4th and 1.
 
Angel said:
Haven't you had to accept losing for the past 3 seasons?? So....Al has to deal with it as well....but why would you want to put yourself through it even one more season?
It's a different thing to prepare for 2-3 seasons of it than to accept them after the fact. Al doesn't like to accept it going into the season. He gave Shanahan 1 1/4 seasons to get the WCO up and winning, then turned it over to Shell who won instantly. White got 2 whole seasons where the team slowly went backwards before he got canned for an even worse Bugel who only got 1 season. Gruden had 2 seasons of .500 ball while the roster turned over so he got the time to continue the revolution. Seriously, a season with George and Hollas that wound up .500 has to be considered a success. Then Callahan crashed and burned when the high performance team unwound. Turner couldn't repeat what Shell had done since the roster was 1/2 crap. Now Shell comes in with another roster built to his (and Al's) specs, plenty of vets and free spirits. Seems like the right place and time.
 
XL Raider: I definitely think we'll get the right attitude on the OL from Shell. Atlanta had already started the transition of their personnel before reportedly going to the zone scheme.

True, Al Davis likes the power kind of blocker, but we do have a couple guys who fit the size category, and should be "nifty" enough to do it. Regardless, either scheme requires nasty players who want to muscle up. The man scheme requires that you be faster at the snap while zone gives you a better position to block from by taking a step backwards initially (oversimplification though).
 
Rupert said:
It's a different thing to prepare for 2-3 seasons of it than to accept them after the fact. Al doesn't like to accept it going into the season. He gave Shanahan 1 1/4 seasons to get the WCO up and winning, then turned it over to Shell who won instantly. White got 2 whole seasons where the team slowly went backwards before he got canned for an even worse Bugel who only got 1 season. Gruden had 2 seasons of .500 ball while the roster turned over so he got the time to continue the revolution. Seriously, a season with George and Hollas that wound up .500 has to be considered a success. Then Callahan crashed and burned when the high performance team unwound. Turner couldn't repeat what Shell had done since the roster was 1/2 crap. Now Shell comes in with another roster built to his (and Al's) specs, plenty of vets and free spirits. Seems like the right place and time.
Callahan shoulda been shot when he told the team they were the dumbest team in America....what the Hell kind of Coach does that>?
 
You know. I have found when people make sweeping generalizations like that, they tend to say more about themselves than the people they talk about. Callahan was saying they didn't listen to him or they would have played smart. The bottom line is, he didn't communicate well with them (as evidenced by their inability to follow his coaching), and therefore the stupidity was his, not the team's.
 
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