Originally Posted by BornNraisdRAIDER est.1983

i thinlk the best bet is to draft mcfadden. im not being greedy by saying this, but we are rebuilding right now. why not take him just to have an explosive player for our future along with all the other explosive young guns. we need to focus on offense period. we need to give russell the most threats around him as possible to make him great. i love the raiders to death but there is a good possibility that we wont make the playoffs for another couple of years. i think we can fill those other gaps through trade or through cuts after the draft. mcfadden is the best player in the draft and would be a steal if we took him knowing that we are rebuilding and it would make us even more competitve in the AFC and the AFC west. we are not playing in the WEAK NFC. i love fargas, bush , and rhodes i think lamont runs to stiff. i always thought bush was a steal in the 4th round but he could be a bust with future leg injurys. all our other backs are getting old. its either dmac or jake long.if you watch college football there are no other backs in the next four years that are going to amount to dmac or adrian peterson. we are lucky being put in this situstuion.