Saturday, October 25, 2008

John Elway says Al Davis is gonna "ruin" JaMarcus Russell's career

After drafting JaMarcus the Raiders have done nothing to help him out - except spending way too much money on a aging, bad knee, wanting to quit WR.
Former Head Coach said this about Javon Walker:
“There’s a couple of balls there that we would have liked him to
come up with, That’s discouraging because
he was paid an awful lot of
money
, paid like one of the top five receivers in
the NFL. We need him to make those plays.”
Now even Elway is talking about it, his quotes:
"The fastest way to ruin a quarterback is to put him on a bad team, with a bad line, with no weapons, with no continuity in the coaching staff...That pretty much describes the current Raiders. The game has passed Al Davis by, and he’s the only one who doesn’t know it. Every time the Raiders get a good coach — Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Norv Turner, etc. — who doesn’t buy into Al’s outdated program, he fires him. It’s this kind of organizational instability that can ruin a quarterback, like the Texans ruined David Carr and the Browns ruined Tim Couch. A young quarterback, especially a No. 1 guy with the weight of a city’s expectations on his shoulders, can wilt. A young quarterback needs a calm, steady influence on and off the field. The first three years for an NFL quarterback are rocky no matter what. He needs a coach to teach him the game of football and a kind of father figure to nurture him and get him through the tough times off the field. Too bad JaMarcus didn’t have the leverage I had in 1983; then he could’ve avoided the Raiders all together. …I feel for JaMarcus. Physically, he has it all. He’s an unbelievable talent — strong arm, tall, big. In the right situation, he could have a great NFL career. In Oakland, he has almost no chance.”

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