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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
One question. Have you seen McGloin start? He's not as good as Carr but he can play and he's going to have one of the best offensive lines to play behind as well as a lot of offensive weapons. He's spent two seasons in the Musgrave offense and knows it well so it's not like he's some rookie. The reason the Chiefs have owned the Raiders is because they own Carr. He's played his worst football by far in the past two years against them so really McGloin would only have to be average and the Raiders can beat them. Not worried about the Steelers in the least as the Raiders were the team that took care of the Ravens in Baltimore early in the season when the Ravens were 3-0 and the Raiders have always played the Steelers well even when they were terrible as they have beaten the Steelers with starting QB's such as Russell, Pryor, and Gradkowski and McGloin is better than all of them. Raiders already beat the Texans relatively easily. Patriots are really the only team that I don't think the Raiders can beat with McGloin starting.
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I have seen McGloin start, I remember the Thanksgiving game they lost to the Cowboys. The Raiders have seen him play too. That's why they drafted Carr the draft after McGloin's rookie year, and why they drafted Connor Cook in the 4th round this year (which I'm sure we all now know was exactly one spot ahead of Dak). McGloin's rookie deal is up this year and they obviously weren't bringing him back after drafting Cook. So yeah, a guy with more career turnovers than touchdowns is a backup QB for a reason. This is where if the Raiders were dominating teams it wouldn't be as much a concern, you could go conservative backup QB offense and hope the team does the job. But when you need lots of fourth quarter comebacks, thats when you need an elite QB. Carr is close to that, McGloin is going to be a UFA in 3 months, likely heading to a new backup role.
And "relatively easily" has to be the most bizarre way to describe a win in which the Raiders were down a touchdown with 10 minutes left in the game to the Brock Osweiler Houston Texans (remember the laser pointer?). Or having those Texans inside the 20 with less than 6 minutes to go, bypassing a go-ahead FG and getting a crap spot on a fourth down when they clearly got the first down? Can't imagine which adjectives you'd use to describe yesterday's New England-New York Jets game. A relative genocide?