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Maybe they’re visionaries. Thinkers so outside the field that we won’t even comprehend their brilliance.
Or maybe the Raiders just aren’t good.
On Saturday, they minimize their roster all the way down to the league-mandated fifty three males and came up with some attention-grabbing math. They didn’t answer no less than two coaching-camp battles for now, in deciding to keep two punters — Chris Kluwe and Marquette King — and 4 quarterbacks on the roster.
The roster spots of Matt Flynn and Terrelle Pryor seemed set, as certainly one of them ostensibly must begin. But the Raiders gave the impression to be admitting their very own mistake by preserving each fourth-spherical quarterback Tyler Wilson and undrafted Matt McGloin. Wilson fell to fourth behind McGloin, who seemed like he ought to have been drafted. Wilson did not.
It’s simply too straightforward now to select on the Raiders, who clearly have some extra strikes to make earlier than they head to Indianapolis for subsequent Sunday’s recreation towards the Colts. They probably hope to trade one of many punters, seemingly the older Kluwe, to a playoff contender. However with a surplus of respectable punters out there — headlined by ex-Patriot Zoltan Mesko — that seems fairly tough.
But the bigger statement about four quarterbacks and two punters is that the group at present has six roster spots for 2 positions that you typically can only function certainly one of at a time on the field. (Although we’d love to see some two-punter motion — some way, someway.) GM Reggie McKenzie’s job is still very much lodged in the throes of great rebuilding, with terrible depth and never superb high-shelf talent, either.
Brace yourselves, Raiders fans. This may be one attempting season. Unless you are a severe punting aficionado.
Oakland Raiders keep four quarterbacks and two punters on 53-man roster
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