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Looking ahead to next year this unit is the strongest and needs the least amount of work. Any new head coach we have must be a 3-4 defense guy because all of our talent is molded for that. Going to a 4-3 would be very counter productive right now.

-Gotta find a way to keep Soliai.
-Gotta get an OLB to start instead of Misi. Misi brings little to the table. Good for depth, nothing more.
-Need 1 CB opposite Vonate. Smith in the nickle you can live with I guess.

Even the free safety position has improved as the season has went on. Yeah sure upgrade if you can, but not losing sleep over it anymore. This unit does not need a lot. Merling and McDaniels I am guessing will be gone, even a new head coach won't want them around with the "issues" they have. The D-line is great, hope we can re-sign Langford. Dansby and Burnett are FINALLY Dansby and Burnett playing great these past few weeks. Wake is having a down year, what can ya do. But this unit I wouldn't do much with right now moving forward.

Odrick has stepped up big this year
Vonate when healthy is having his best year of his career
Soliai is playing well again for the 3rd year in a row now
Bell gets better with age
Dansby once he shed the weight he put on from the lockout is playing like an elite MLB these past 5 or 6 weeks

I mean Nolan will be gone, but whoever we get as a GM/Head Coach must not be dumb enough to blow up the defense. This unit is very good!

Amazing. Winning does cure everything it would appear, at least to MikeO.

doesn't cure everything. The offense is still a mess in my opinion. No big play threat at WR, pass blocking blows, Moore has a low ceiling and is limited, and we have no legit threat at TE. The special teams has been poor this year as well in my mind. And the head coach and GM both suck.

But the defense is and has played very well for most of this season. That can't be ignored anymore especially after today's dominate performance.

Dominant? Jason Campbell, Jacoby Ford, Taiwan Jones, Darren McFadden, Denarius Moore all out with injuries. That's like half of their big play offense. There's no such thing as a 4-8 team with a dominant defense. Waste of a thread. -EK

Waste of a Response! Once again, you TROLLING and instead of adding anything to the debate.

The defense was dominate today. And has been above average for a while now. To deny that fact is putting one's head in the sand or up their own rear end!

This entire thread is based on the fictional assumption that there will be a new coach next year.

shutting down a Raiders team which is missing half of their starters is expected.  When they leave NEw England and only give up 17 points, then let's talk.

No one is agreeing with Mike in this thread, but I'm the only troll.  ;D -EK

we aren't going to have a new coach? ha ha ha ha ha.....you are living in a fantasy world pal!  Everyone from Peter King, Adam Schefter, Mort, to Glazer has said Sparano is done at the end of the year. But keep thinking we are going to keep him! NOW THATS FUNNY!!!

And its not JUST the Raiders. The defense has played well vs Dallas, Washington, Giants, KC, Houston, Cleveland, Jets. The Defense has played well the past 2 months. If people want to ignore that, whatever!

More than one moron in the world.

Nobody agreed with me on Jason Allen last year either, everyone ended up looking stupid! And that's just one example where I have been right and the majority has been dead wrong!

How can you say the defense played "well" in 4 games that they lost a lead? That's pretty much the definition of NOT playing well. If the offense puts you in a position to win, and you blow the lead once or twice, that's one thing, but it was a running theme for most of the season. Gotta tell you, too, I have read nothing indicating Nolan will be gone. I've actually read the contrary- that he will be kept based on the play the defense has finally had in the past five games. You're making a lot of assumptions with little to go one there. -EK

Jeez, how many times are you going to keep playing the "Jason Allen Card"??

I suppose if you only have ONE card to play, you play it often. -EK

Nolan's contract is up and he is going to stay yet our head coach will be fired and the new head coach will be FORCED to keep Nolan? lol lol It keeps getting better

I'm going to make a poll on whether or not I'm the only one that's sick of EK and Mike bickering on every thread..

Isn't Jason Allen the nickel corner on the # 4 passign defense in the league (third overall)?  Just sayin', he ain't that bad...

I am too.  Which is why I offered to take them out on my boat to settle their differences.

I am sick of it. All he does is follow me around from thread to thread and call me names.

He says I'm too negative. I post something positive and he says I'm dumb and wrong. No matter what I post he will take the opposite side to attack me. It's what he does

Disparaging someone because they hold a different point of view from your own... Remind me, where have I seen that before?

Let me make this clear- I don't think Mike is dumb. I do think that he posts some dumb and ridiculous things. Often. Just because someone disagrees with Mike, he seems to think that's open season on attacking them. I was raised to believe when someone does that you push back. If Mike doesn't like me pointing out that the defense on a 4-8 team can hardly be called "dominant," that a 1200 yard receiver is definitely a number one receiver, or that grass is actually blue and not green, that's OK. What's not OK is that he trolls the board looking for things to jab at people (me and others) about, then plays "Holier than thou" accusing others of doing it. What's not OK is that his own insecurities about his knowledge make him think it's acceptable to TYPE ALL IN CAPS YELLING AT PEOPLE and acting like a child. What's not OK is the fact that anyone who disagrees with him has to listen to his barrage of insults, insinuations, intimations and his tantrums like an overgrown adolescent. I offered him a straight bet on an earlier game situation that I would shut up and never comment on any of his posts if he would do the same, and he declined because he needs this place to feel better about himself, and keyboard bully people. If Mike doesn't like what I post, he can disagree with me tactfully, or ignore me. When he starts in on the attacks, I will reciprocate. Apparently, looooooooooooooong before I became a member here, he developed a reputation for "Disparaging someone because they hold a different point of view from [his] own." That's on him- not me. -EK

Everything you blame me of doing... you do yourself. 

And for the record:

1) I never said the defense was "dominate." I said it was dominate last week vs Oakland and has been very good all year. Never said it was dominate all year. Don't twist my words.

2) I post in 2 areas of the message board, this one and the NFL one. I don't follow people around looking to jab at them. I post opinions I could care less who I am responding too. And half the time I don't even notice to be honest.

3) This tirade you just posted prove my entire point. You have some sort of "thing" about me. And look to get into it with me on every issue no matter what. Thank you for proving my entire point with this tirade above.

A week after the Dallas game, half-way through the Raiders game you were still posting comments at me (during the freaking game) about what happened in Dallas. And I have issues? Get a clue. -EK

SHUT THE FUCK UP BOTH OF YOU. 

Which is why the rest of us get tired of BOTH of you infecting every thread.