tukafan21

This is very true, if it was the 49ers, it would be a heavy SF crowd, they travel well for playoff games. But the Rams barely have home field advantage in LA usually, there shouldn't be a massive Rams contingent in town for the game.

I agree, we don't need to draft another young edge rusher to add to this group, even a 1st rounder as we'll now be late in the round too. Biggest FA contract should go to the best pass rusher we can sign, use that 1st on a LB or S

I honestly don't understand why, other than his season not living up to expectations and/or the Raiders being the worst team. He had over 1,300 yards and 10 TDs, that's not the 7th best rookie in a year like this, personally I think he probably should be #2 behind T-Mac, Henderson a slight 3rd behind Jeanty.

Pretty sure there should have been a penalty on the Steelers there. Looked like someone leapt over the center and put his hand on the centers back when doing so, that's 100% a penalty if I saw that correctly

This has been an awesome way to end the regular season, what a finish this has been.

Honestly I don't think there is any one player or coach, it's been a season of different things in most weeks to get us there, and honestly sometimes it was just luck in the end that won a game, that happens too. Sometimes it was the other team overlooking us and expecting an easy win and it biting them in the ass. Sometimes it was someone on offense or defense having themselves a game. Sometimes it was the defensive gameplan and execution. And sure, Canales did have himself a well called game or two this year that helped us get a win, but it was few and far between and was probably more a blind squirrel finding a nut than showing his true ability.

No, voting is done before the playoffs start, so he could have 350 yards and 8 TDs next week and it wouldn't matter.

Canales has been the #1 thing holding us back this year, and I say that as one of the biggest Bryce bashers on here. I’ve been saying it even since we shut the Falcons out, I started a thread after that one calling out my issues with Canales and his playcalling and it got poo’d into oblivion. He's not creative and he thinks he can always trick the defense, but in the end just calls terrible plays because of it. I don’t think Bryce is a legitimate starting QB in this league, but Canales is even less of a legitimate HC than Bryce is as a starting QB.

hahaha well thank you And yep, I knew I was right 2+ years ago when I first brought him up on here. I knew I was right leading into the draft. I knew I was right when we made the pick. And I still know I was right. I was debating starting a thread about being so right today, but decided I'm going to wait until he's handed that OROY award in a few weeks to take my proper bow

It will be the week of the Super Bowl at the NFL Awards show. They were doing it on Saturday for a bit but think they've moved it up to the Thursday the week of the game in the last year or two if I remember correctly. There is a 0% chance that he won't be a finalist, so at least it will make tuning into the show worthwhile

I don't think any good HC candidate will have any interest in the Raiders unless that coach is absolutely in love with one of the QB's in this draft, and even then, I'm not sure they're taking that job. That is a team with very little going for it right now, on top of being in a division with Mahomes/Reid, Herbert/Harbaugh, Nix/Payton. The next closest division with a set up like that for the foreseeable future would probably be the NFC North, who even as good as they are, none of them are as good as any of those 3. You could say the Bills/Patriots with Allen/Maye is better set up than the NFCN, but even then, that's still just 2 teams, not 3 like with the AFC West. And that's before even factoring in all the distractions that come along with been in Vegas. I genuinely think the Raiders job is the worst in the entire NFL right now.

DraftKings certainly thinks so as they currently have him as the -800 favorite I think what plays in his favor is that while there are a few other players that in a blind resume had a better statistical output, particularly some of the RB's when you combine their rushing and receiving stats, none of them played a key role on their team for the entire season like T-Mac did for us with Jeanty being the exception. The problem for him is that he didn't live up to the pre-season hype he came in with, in addition to being on the worst team in the league this year. It very well could come down to how the voters view Bryce, who we all know is quite a polarizing player in the eyes of so many analysts. The worse they think Bryce was this year, the more of a feather in T-Mac's cap that becomes and probably helps him win over votes for being the only rookie to put up 1k yards this year. In a season with no clear cut run away winner, I think it will only help T-Mac that he was the #1 option in our offense for the entire season, the other rookies were role players for big chunks of the year, like Henderson and Harvey, or only started half-ish of the season like Dart and Shough.

It's going to be very interesting to see where Pitts ends up next year, but I'm not sure he's worth the risk. Sure he had a great year, but sports are littered with examples of guys who were complete busts of high picks, only to have a breakout season in their final year of their rookie deal, sign a big contract, and then go right back to being a bust. We still have way too many holes to take a swing on paying big money to a TE who is anything but a sure thing.

It’s tough to give it to a QB who only played half the season and didn’t even have 10 passing TDs. If he lead them to a win today to knock us out of the playoffs with a good passing gam, he might have had more of an argument, but without that, you gotta give it to the only rookie to go over 1k this year

Hoping that pick just locked up the OROY for T-Mac as well