Why Can't Raider Nation Read The Writing On The Wall?

The voice of reason has entered the building. Please have a seat my friends, class is in session.

The question before the court is why can’t the Raider Nation read the writing on the wall?

Is Coach Cable’s football team headed toward a playoff run as he explained last February? No, not anywhere remotely close.

The 49er game Saturday night showed why this football team will be in complete and total disarray for the next 18 weeks or so. The Raiders gave up 275 yards rushing on their way to one of the ugliest performances we've seen by a Raider defense in recent memory.

Coach Cable explained that the tackling was poor and the pad level was too high.

Hey Coach, would you like to watch the film again? This time, take your ego out of the picture and look at the real issue. Defensively, it was not the tackling, nor was it the pad level. It was the coaching.

I have a question Coach. Who the hell is your edge defender?, you know, the guy who contains the edge, the force player, oh yeah, that’s right, we don’t have one of those, do we? You left it up to your safeties to turn the flow back inside against the 49ers all night, didn’t matter whether the 1’s were in or the 3’s.

Stop patronizing those of us who actually understand football coach.  There are people besides those pretending in Napa how to fix a leaky defense.  Surely you could have taken the edge away and at least offered the middle of your defense as a pleasant diversion. 

You think this nightmare of a pre-season has seen the worst but you have yet to see what you are doing to this once proud franchise.

Speak up, stop hiding behind the shield and be a man. Tell us all how you plan on stopping the run game of San Diego, New York, Philadelphia, or even Pittsburgh this year when you can't even contain the edge against the 49ers?

Tell ya what Coach, I’ll make you a deal. Step down and remove yourself from play calling duties and the title of Head Coach and let someone in there who actually knows this sport, someone who will tell his players that it’s his fault when they don’t set the edge.

To the Raider fans out in Raider Nation, I beg you to open your eyes and see what I’ve been telling you for the past couple years. This team is going no where. This team needs a Coach who dominates his environment everywhere he goes, rather than a man who can’t answer simple questions honestly to members of the media and uses T-Shirts to motivate his men.

This team cannot get better until they are honest about what needs to be changed.  Look at the recent clues.

We sign Lorenzo Neal and then let him go.  Surely he was at least an added benefit in the lockeroom?  At the beginning of camp everyone was excited about this guy.  Where did he go?

We give up 275 yards rushing and sign a Defensive Tackle the next day.  This is an emotional decision that has an effect throughout the entire team.  It communicates to the current players that they aren't good enough.  They are good enough, they just need proper instruction. 

Instead of coaching the players we have, instead of taking responsibility for the men in place, we instead, deflect that responsibility, attribute our lack of success to excuses and cycle our disappointing play.

"Victorious warriors win first and then goto war, while defeated warriors goto war first and then seek to win" -Sun Tzu/The Art of War-

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