SB Nation User Blog: Beastusmaximus

F DIS!!

Beastusmaximus — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:23:04 -0000

This is just too much. I feed into all the bull this summer, how big money free agents were going to turn this team around or at the very least in the right direction. I dont know why we would think extra money would make a player better, but we did.

Tommy Kelly mediocre at best was the highest paid DT at one point, Javon Walker was paid twice almost thrice more than Randy Moss so to live up to his contract would have to score over 50 TD's. DeAngelo Hall just reminded me how deceiving INT stats are.

Rob Ryan is pathetic, his defensive scemes are obvious, he ruined Micheal Huffs career "Lets play man coverage and drop the safety", "lets play the ends way way wide" yes his a piece of shit not suitable to coach youre sons pee wee team.

Moving on to a bigger joke, Al. Where do I start, let’s see an 80 year old GM, owner, and play caller where else does this happen? This is just ridiculous as a raider fan I demand for AL to step down immediately. If not Jamarcus will be a bust, mcfadden will be a bust, and next year’s first round pick will be a bust

Im sick of getting outplayed, outhustled, and outcoached each week/each year. If you want to ruin you're professional career play in oakland.

Rob Ryan

Beastusmaximus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:51:01 -0000

Ryan fires back

By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 3:49 pm in Oakland Raiders.

Raiders defensive coordinator Rob Ryan wanted to set the record straight, so he stood at the podium and launched into an 18-minute press session that was dotted with expletives and was largely a monologue, managing to answer most questions before they were even asked.

I’ll edit out the swear words, but nothing else, as Ryan takes full responsibility for the team’s defensive performance in Week 1 and denies the weekly involvement of Al Davis when it comes to specifics and game-planning:

Q: How are you doing?

Ryan: Who asked that question? A little bit rough, OK? Just working extra hard and I want to make sure that we give our guys the best chance to play well, obviously we had an embarrassing loss, didn’t have good defense, we were expecting great things, and it didn’t work out. Is it going to look like this for 16 weeks? I know it’s not. However it came to be, we didn’t play well, and that’s just the way it is.

Q: How do you approach it, take ‘em apart, encourage them, both?

Ryan: You’ve got to do both. The thing is, I’ve been in this business a long time, I’m a professional, I’ve dealt with bad losses before. Nobody wants to see you when you’re going over that tape and you have to point things out, but you’ve got to get it done to move on, to do the right thing. Were we upset about our style of play? Yeah, it didn’t go well, and I’ve seen some comments out there, some days you guys aren’t perfect. I know you’re the best at your profession. I am too. I’m man enough to stay up here and say, `I didn’t have a good game.’ That’s kind of (bleeping) obvious. I’m sure there’s times where you put your work out there that sometimes it doesn’t work out like Pulitzer Prize stuff either. Only difference is, you guys, when you’re out there, you can hit spell check. After I call a bad one, I can’t hit spell check. That’s a big difference.

I’ve seen a lot of things out there, written, and there’s styles of play, guys, that are different. Our style of play is putting our players, which we have a strong belief in, to win one-on-one matchups and that’s how we’re best. Last year we lost six games by giving up one offensive touchdown, something like that. We’ve played Denver five times in a row, before last week, where we hold them to 19, 18 points a game, probably play them better than anybody does. So it didn’t go well. But I’ve seen Tampa, ah, let’s play Tampa. The three worst plays we had last week, we were in `2.’

There’s a lot of people that want to be experts at my job and I understand that, it comes with the territory and when the whole stadium is booing my name, I kind of got the message. Understand this, guys. There’s a chain of command that we have here in Oakland, and I’m just going to say it, that story is wrong and I usually don’t read the press, especially after a (expletive) game. But that’s all on me. I put the game plan in. I run the defense, and it’s all on me. The meeting with the owner, during the week _ I meet with Mr. Davis in the offseason, guys. That thing is just (BS) and I want to make sure you got it right. I meet with the owner in the offseason. He’s the boss, he’s the man that hired me, and that’s been well-documented. I don’t meet with him on game plans or come up with all this. Hell, it’s amazing when things like this come out when we have a bad week.

Let’s just be honest about it. Put it on me, that’s where it belongs. I’m the man that runs the defense. I’m the man that played Tampa 2 three times and went to (bleep). OK, that’s me. I’m that guy. I’m the guy that that had a max pressure in the teeth of max protection and they hit a triple move on our corner, DeAngelo Hall. That’s not on him. That’s on me, for just a poor call. So put it on me, and that’s OK. You guys do a great job, but if it’s just not right I just can’t not say anything.

It’s been too long. I’ve been here five years, and I’m just going to tell you how the mode of operation works. I’m hired to be the coordinator. That’s what I do. If it goes great, that’s great. If it goes like (bleep), you’ve still got the same damn guy up here. I’ll be the same guy up in front of you next week when we kick ass. But I’ll be the same guy if we stumble again. Hell, I’ve been through some tough times. Look at this (removes hat), I’ve got gray. This is that National (bleeping) Football League.You’re not going to be on point every week. Am I pissed off about Monday night? You’re damned right. It’s on me, and come on, guys, enough’s enough.

Hey, my last name is Ryan. Why aren’t you blitzing more? Well, a Ryan won’t even blitz _ and we will blitz _ but a Ryan won’t blitz in a max protection and all close receivers. Nor will anyone else. Nobody else will. The great documented Tampa coverage teams, and there’s some out there that had just as (expletive) weeks than I did. You can look ‘em up. Detroit, Tampa, Indianapolis. All of us lost.

Our style of play is what it is, and that’s me. That’s Rob Ryan’s style of play for our defense and for our players. Do we have great players? Yes. Every one of those guys, DeAngelo Hall, who seems to be under attack, Nnamdi Asomugha, who nobody gets a completion on. What, did they hit a hitch route on him? C’mon guys. Put it on me, let’s not make up some (BS). I’ve been here five years, let’s just get it out on the (bleeping) table, and get it done with. I’m man enough to do that.

Our whole team is disappointed. We have excellent players, guys working their ass off, and it didn’t go well. And I’m not telling you how to do your job because you guys are great journalists. (Bleep), we had one Ryan in journalism, my older brother, and that lasted for like two months because he’s a starving journalist, a football coach. Guys, I’ve been around this business a long time, the Ryans have six Super Bowls, I’ve won two of them, I’ve been on defenses that have been in the top one or in the top three, for sure, in run defense at least a couple of times, in pass defense — hell, I did that here — in total defense, in turnovers, in sacks. OK, come on.

I’m not some incompetent guy standing up here and I’m getting a little bit tired of this (bleep). Put it on me for a bad performance but it ain’t going to be that way every week, all right, and just come off our players. Just put it on me where it belongs and get off our players, OK?

Q: You are bothered because the players are under attack?

Ryan: Sure, you’re damned right. It’s all on me.

Q: What about the perception you don’t blitz enough?

Ryan: I’m going to blitz but I’m going to blitz when it’s smart to do it, just like you guys will put in a picture with your story when it’s the right thing to do. (Bleep), I don’t know. I know my business, I don’t know yours.

Q: And that whatever you do comes from you and not Al Davis?

Ryan: It comes with me and it comes with our assistant coaches. Hell, Don Martindale has been with me for five years. We get paid to make decisions and when it goes astray, just know where to put the blame. Put it on this damned guy in front of you that is just as disappointed as anybody out there and more so. This is my profession. That’s why I was embarrassed by it. That’s why I felt like it was my opportunity to face the music, OK? When we kick ass, that’s cool. I don’t want it. Bu we’re going to get there, guys. We’re going to get there.

We had a bad game. Say whatever you want to say. We were trying some different things, and they didn’t work. Did we get outschemed? Hey, say whatever you want to say. I’ve played this Shanahan a long time who is damned good. They got a good staff over there. Did he hit a couple of plays on me? You’re darned right he did. It’s the NFL, OK? But that’s just the way it is. I just want to make sure that the story is legit, OK, and I’ll be honest with you.”

Q: Just to be clear, Al Davis doesn’t have a week-to-week say on the game plan?

Ryan: Not on a week-to-week basis, absolutely not.

Q: Occasionally?

Ryan: “When I deal with Al Davis, guys, it’s in the offseason. And here’s the thing: Al Davis knows football. And I’ll have four-hour conversations with him in the offseason about everything in this league. About offenses, about players, about scheme, about everything, but during the week, guys, (bleep), I don’t have time to talk to my wife, OK. If I’m going to make one phone call, it’s going to be her, all right? That’s the truth. I’m just telling you the truth. I literally had one conversation with Mr. Davis last week, and it was about Fred Wakefield.”

Q: That’s why we ask you, because we aren’t privy to your weekly goings on . . .

Ryan: OK. I understand that. I just want to say the truth. There’s one Rob Ryan as far as I know and I’m the guy and I would know. That’s just the way it is, and I’m going to tell the truth. I’m a smart man but I’ll say I’m too dumb to lie. I’m going to tell you the damned truth and that’s the way it is. To sit here and say, well, I don’t know what the hell to say, what was really said. I saw one article and I’m like, (bleep), when the shit is it going to stop?’ Maybe if we play good defense. OK, we’ll stop it next week, then. Alright, let’s go. That’s the way it is, all right. If I don’t blitz, then there’s a reason for it. If I do, there’s a reason for it. If we get beat for a damned touchdown during an all-out blitz, well, then, obviously, I had a poor call. If I hit them for a safety or whatever, all right, it was a good call. But, guys, everything I do up here is educated. It may not look like it when you give up 41 points, all right, but it’s the truth.

I’m doing the best job I can and I know it’s good enough to win with. My legacy is going to be with this Ryan name, we’ve been in six Super Bowls, won five of them, five different teams, that’s no accident, OK? That’s no accident. Did last week look like the (bleeping) ‘85 Bears? (Bleep) no. Come on. You know we didn’t (bleeping) look like the (bleeping) Bears. OK? But (bleep), maybe it looked like the (bleeping) Patriots when we won the Super Bowl and went out there and laid an egg against Cincinnati at Cincinnati, who had a (expletive) team and beat the (bleep) out of us the first game. OK? Maybe it looked like that. That’s the way it is. All right guys?

I just want to set it straight because, damn, I’ve been here five years and you know what, I don’t think people necessarily have the right story. I know you guys are doing your best. But (bleep) I can only speak for me. I can’t speak for everybody on the team. I’m disappointed but I just wanted to tell my side of the story for once because there’s so many other things that come out where I have to read it and take it and I just want the truth as I know the truth. There you go.

Q: Anything lacking effort-wise on your players part?

Ryan: Not in effort. Sometimes it looked like we were stuck in mud, I swear, the speed of the game. Denver makes you play an adjusting style of game but we’ve done it before and it just didn’t work out. We were giving up big plays and that’s just not our style and what you don’t want to do against Denver. That was happening and it was damned disappointing. We don’t want to play a game like that. Again, that comes on me. They got us in a couple situations where they got us in a couple different coverages and we just didn’t execute.

Q: How do you make the adjustments for the Chiefs?

Ryan: Every week you deal with a different offense and a different style. There will be copycat plays but you go and correct them and that’s what you do in those hard meetings, come to Jesus meetings that we all have to have when things don’t go well. I know we’re on point. We’ve got great players. They’re pros. They’ll work. We’ll get better. We’re all disappointed with how things went. Can it be fixed? Hell yeah. And we gotta do it. (Bleep), we will do it.

Q: How much communication do you have with Lane during the week?

Ryan: We’ve had good communication this week. He talked about a front that I’m actually running this week. We talked about this could be a good front to run against Kansas City. We have communication, but understand, my job’s to be the defensive coordinator and Lane’s the head coach. He’s got a million hats, I’ve only got one. Eventually the whole thing comes down to me being a better coach and doing a better job.

Q: What happened with Hall and Royal?

Ryan: A lot of that was me playing loaded coverage over there but the routes went deeper than we were anticipating and so it looked like he was playing soft when he was actually a deep third player. Usually we get up there in their face and press but I was trying to bait their young quarterback with the big arm into a loaded zone and hell he threw right through it. A couple of those plays were definitely on me. The one max pressure where we hit our head the guy had a triple move on him and shit I don’t know who could cover that. Willie Brown, maybe, back in the day. That’s just the truth.

Who will lead the team in Interceptions?

Beastusmaximus — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:50:15 -0000

Saint brought up the topic I just thought i add to it.

Now the candidates

Why? DeAngelo Hall his 17 INTs and godly 4.15 forty speak for themselves

Why? Michael Huff, as a Free Safety the sky is the limit, his production this preseason has been scary good

Why? Nhambi Asomugha, he averaged a couple picks a day throughout training camp and arguably performed the best at training camp (Burgess close 2nd)

Why? Thomas Howard, he lead the team last year and all linebackers even competing with the leagues best DBs

Poll

Who will lead the team in picks?

DeAngelo Hall

11 votes

Michael Huff

4 votes

Nnamdi Asomugha

9 votes

Thomas Howard

1 votes

Darren Mcfadden

2 votes

27 votes | Poll has closed

Its a Cold World...

Beastusmaximus — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:43:50 -0000

I’m going through the whole find a summer job to pay for college thing...pain in the ass. So im sitting there at the mall hopeless and with even less money. I go to the Raider Nation store with my steeler "casual fan" friend to look at stitch jerseys i cant afford to look at, i talk it up with the owner who really knows his raider history. I than kick my friend out for jokingly asking, "i want the best players jersey, do you have a Shane Lechler jersey?" and "do you have big ben in large?"

Anyways the owner and i start talking football we cover everything, and my people skills and raider pride win em over. Than i notice the "now hiring" sign I read the requirements which felt like reading my autobiography. We both look at each other and we get that Raider connection MY DREAM JOB WAS MINE!!!! As im filling out the application the owner ask stops me and asks, "BEASTUSMAXIMUS are you 18?"

story over.... im a month away from 18

Madden 09 Ratings

Beastusmaximus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:23:29 -0000

My Boi Kirk Morrison!!

The player ratings for 09 are out!!! I know some of you oldtimers are not that excited but every true madden fan "squiels" when hearing the new rosters are out

here are Da Rayduzz!!!

http://sports.ign.com/madden09/raiders.html

This are the highest ratings I've seen for the Raiders in recent memory, on paper we look like an above .500 team. Sadly Shane Lechler is still the highest rated Raider

Here the rest of the league if you are interested

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/882/882456p1.html

Interesting notes: Devin Hester is still at a Godly 100 speed rating and the Broncos are rated way worse than us

Mcfadden signed

Beastusmaximus — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:25:26 -0000

to a 6 year 60 million contract according to espn's John Clayton. I cant find an article but yeah his signed.

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I work for EA and I’m just advertising for Madden 09 (by pure coincidence happen to be a Raider f...

Beastusmaximus — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:38:58 -0000

I work for EA and I’m just advertising for Madden 09 (by pure coincidence happen to be a Raider fan) this is not "thrash talking" but EA demonstrating its new graphics through Darren Mcfadden

yo boi

Beastusmaximus — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:39:28 -0000

yo boi

Madden 09 cover

Beastusmaximus — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:37:44 -0000

Madden 09 cover

Its A Long Stretch

Beastusmaximus — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:58:37 -0000

Being a young one, I often heard about the admirable Raider tradition through old-timers as I walked them across the street. In the majority of their stories they talk about a "smash mouth football" something I never knew existed in Oakland/Los Angeles I look at them bewildered since I am not familiar with this "caveman" way of playing, only type of football I know is zones, spies, pocket collapse and other overcomplicated civilized types. During all this "smash football" talk they always mention and rant about number 75, claiming that he could use his signature "rip" move to unclamp the hands of a sloth.

Which brings us to the topic at hand, Chris Long. I want a first hand look at the true Raider experience. It all seems so surreal, you couldn't make a better resume for a prospect and a team, he fills the biggest need, he is arguably the second best talent in the draft and to pick him up at 4 would be like winning the lottery AND his the son of a Raider legend. Long's character is amazing, he stayed his senior year not for himself but for his teammates and coaches. His the best of both worlds its like getting a teddy bear outside of the pylons and a Grizzly Bear inside. His also equipped with a V-8 engine, his motor is non stop and can run down anybody. Long recorded 14 sacks in his senior campaign only .5 less than his older clone in the NFL, Patrick Kerney, coincidence I think not. Both share the high motor and high character I wouldn't be surprised if Long and Kerney were the same person. Chris Long is a "can't miss" pick BUT he WILL be gone by 4 since the farthest he will drop is 2, I hope I'm wrong. Since he wont be their, the Oakland Raiders select Flash Gordon...I mean Darren Mcfadden(he wants too keep that first part a secret)