Did the Raiders overpay to keep Kelly? We will not know that for sometime.
Javon Walker was a huge signing for the Raiders. No team is better at signing bad free agents than Denver, but Walker was not one of them.
I know Denver traded for Walker, but I could not help myself with regards to my Denver statement.
Walker, when healthy, is one of the top WR's in the NFL. The kid is in his prime, and has the size and the speed to go deep. He is a Pro Bowler who is great over the middle and on third downs.
In his first year in Denver he had a great year, and last year, in only his first two games, caught 17 passes for over 200 yards.
If healthy, and they say he is, Walker is a true number one WR and makes the Raiders better.
Is he a gamble?
They are all gambles, just ask Shanahan. Point is, it was a gamble worth taking and a heads-up improvement over Jerry "The Ghost" Porter.
As to strong safety, Wilson, he was the best safety available in free agency. He was listed near the top of most of these experts' lists of best available free agents until the Raiders signed him.
The Raiders have been playing with two FS and needed a SS. Wilson can play both positions, but is a true strong safety.
The kid is young and has a high upside to only get better. In my opinion this has been one of the Raiders greatest needs over the last few years and was a another huge signing by the Raiders.
My guess is that Rob Ryan will interchange both Huff and Wilson and play them at both the FS and SS positions.
Did the Raiders overpay? Again, only time will tell. The Raiders are clearly improved at the position.
The Drew Carter WR signing was huge as well. The kid is huge and has the size and speed to not only get off the line, but to stretch the field in the slot position.
As for Harris, the OL signed from the Niners, I will just say remember Kennedy and only time will tell if this was a good move.
Myself, I will rest on what the Raiders O-Line Coach thinks of the kid. After all, he is one of the best in the NFL.
The Raiders also still have the draft and the rest of the offseason to improve, and I for one cannot wait to see it unfold.
Yes, it is easy to stomp on the mighty when they have fallen.
It is what our society has become. The TV is full of shows that are on the air for no other purpose.
But the Raiders are on their way back and Mr. Davis will bring them back, doing it his way.
He has gotten the Raiders into five Super Bowls and they were a play away from playing in another five Super Bowls.
That is 10 Super Bowls of the forty-two played that the Raiders have been to or were a hair away from getting to.
Not bad for a crazy old man wouldn't you say.
The HOF is also loaded with players that Al Davis has brought into the Raiders. Everyone has a bad stretch in life at one time or another and the last five years has been the Raiders'.
Point is, when compared with many of the other NFL teams that have had a great run over a few year stretch only to be crap for most of their existence, the Raiders have been much more consistent through their history.
Not to mention all the teams in the NFL that have never done anything.
The Raiders do not listen to what these so called experts have to say with regards to bringing in new players or on the amount of money they spend on them.
And to me it is a good thing they do not because if they had, we would never had all the Pro Bowl players I listed above.
Oh and one last thing, they laughed when Mr. Davis signed Howie Long as well.
Boy, if I had a team these are the type of experts I would want advising me on my player acquisitions.
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