blueblood70
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You know what it could end up being the Raiders al Davis left everybody thought once he was gone and yes I realized he passed away but I'm just using those terminologies not to be morbid but the Raiders never got better i'm not sure they got worse but they're pretty much status quo.So, as Jerry gets older, speculation abounds: how will the Franchise look after he moves on ?
The consensus is that Stephen will take control.
How will that play out you may ask ?
That's the purpose of the thread.
Below are are my random predictions/observations:
As poorly as Jerry has GM'ed this team, he still has a lot of charm and guile.
The P.T. Barnum in him has got him through some rough patches.
The just keeping the team relevant and hanging around the rim has kept the Star full of the casual fans.
Jerry also enjoyed the afterglow of the 3 SB victories he presided over.
He also lucked into 2 good serviceable QBs for next to nothing in cost in Romo and Dak.
These 2 QBs fit perfectly into the keeping the team relevant philosophy.
Stephen is not going to have any of the above benefits.
He has no charm, gets defensive when asked tough questions, and has actually insulted the fans with
his "air quotes" playoff drought response, and more recently his ridiculous response when asked about dragging out the
contract negotiations with star players.
Once Dak ages out, and we get really bad QB play like in the Campo years, this team will no longer be relevant.
The heat is gonna get really high, and frankly I don't think Stephen will be able to handle it.
I see him either hiring a real GM or selling the team.
I am really curious as to what you other folks think is going to happen?
That could be here but you're thinking they can't replace the quarterback they could get lucky I mean it seems to me the Pittsburgh Steelers and other teams just floating quarterbacks around guys like Geno Smith Baker Mayfield Sam darnold those guys become available more often now than they used to because of the salary cap free agency players willing to move around that's why teams are gonna go with a guy like fields over with The Jets and you got Wilson and Winston with the giants or whatever and then you have a Hall of Famer who doesn't play great but he played every bit as good as Geno Smith last year and Aaron Rodgers probably going to Pittsburgh they change quarterbacks over in Pittsburgh is why I bring it up a lot and they still seem to be able to at least get close to or get in the playoffs every year but like the Cowboys they're like lost their last seven playoff games...
It is easier now than when we were in the campo years is what I'm saying but I have no guess on what it's gonna look like when Jerry's gone and Stevens running it who knows what he'll do by then maybe some of the other people in his ear his wife or his sister maybe they tell him he should get a strong real GM and get advice maybe things will change nobody knows
so why worry about what things might be like 5 or 10 years from now it seems to be a waste of time to me I'm not saying you shouldn't have posted but I'm saying it's just doesn't make any sense we don't know when Jerry's gonna be gone so it is what it is right now we just gotta live in the moment year to year I don't care what happened 30 years ago with Dave campo or what's gonna happen five years from now I just more interested right now in the draft and this season...