What Needs to Change to Make the Raiders Competitive?

Although he has been a significant factor in dooming Oakland to yet another bad season, all of the blame for the Raiders' 3-8 record cannot be placed at JaMarcus Russell's door.  It goes deeper than that, and a number of other players have underperformed too.

Receivers

Oakland needs receivers who can get open and consistently catch the ball (besides Zach Miller).  Louis Murphy and Darrius Heyward Bey have started most of the season, but both often run poor routes, are slow out of their breaks, and worst of all, drop a lot of catchable balls.  Unfortunately, they don't look much better now than they did at the start of...

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