Comments on: Six Wins Never Meant So Much http://justblogbaby.com/2010/12/06/six-wins-never-meant-so-much/ An Oakland Raiders Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:10:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tweets that mention Six Wins Never Meant So Much | Just Blog Baby | An Oakland Raiders Blog -- Topsy.com http://justblogbaby.com/2010/12/06/six-wins-never-meant-so-much/comment-page-1/#comment-3733 Tweets that mention Six Wins Never Meant So Much | Just Blog Baby | An Oakland Raiders Blog -- Topsy.com Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:19:37 +0000 http://justblogbaby.com/?p=4580#comment-3733 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Tony Simmons, blogs of the world. blogs of the world said: Ok, so there are no moral victories in the NFL. Just uttering the phrase in a professional... http://reduce.li/zsy8qh #meant [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Tony Simmons, blogs of the world. blogs of the world said: Ok, so there are no moral victories in the NFL. Just uttering the phrase in a professional… http://reduce.li/zsy8qh #meant [...]

]]> By: The Mokoda http://justblogbaby.com/2010/12/06/six-wins-never-meant-so-much/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 The Mokoda Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:11:26 +0000 http://justblogbaby.com/?p=4580#comment-3724 In spite of what credit he MAY deserve for this bit of Raider resurgence, Tom Cable needs to be gone after this season and a REAL coach brought in to take them to the level of serious (and taken seriously) contenders. Not just his waffling with the QB's, but his silly sense of motivation will never lift the Raiders beyond being a team "on their way back". Case in point: When the Raiders won the first Charger game, Cable says, "Remember this feeling; remember what this feels like." Sorry, but that's just stupid! You don't play football for a 'feeling', you play to WIN! The feeling comes with winning. What he should have said was something like, "Remember how you did this; remember what it took, what you gave, to win. Learn to duplicate that." Cable may have lit a nice fire of emotion under this team, and that can win some games, but you don't beat Steelers, Jets, Patriots, Ravens on emotion, you have to be highly motivated and bring a real GAME to beat teams like those, and there's no Super Bowl, even if they make the playoffs, without beating at least two of those teams. Even if they did make it to the Super Bowl, you also don't beat Saints, Falcons, Giants or Packers on emotion alone, and those are likely Super Bowl opponents. Emotion is a big part of the game of football, sure, but when you get blown out by the Steelers (expected, sort of), then come right back and get trounced by the likes of Miami, it shows there's some lack in the motivation department. Yeah, they settled down enough to come back and beat the Chargers again, but taking 2 weeks to get motivated after a hard loss still leaves the team at .500. Cable needs to go. Period. In spite of what credit he MAY deserve for this bit of Raider resurgence, Tom Cable needs to be gone after this season and a REAL coach brought in to take them to the level of serious (and taken seriously) contenders.
Not just his waffling with the QB’s, but his silly sense of motivation will never lift the Raiders beyond being a team “on their way back”.

Case in point: When the Raiders won the first Charger game, Cable says,

“Remember this feeling; remember what this feels like.”

Sorry, but that’s just stupid! You don’t play football for a ‘feeling’, you play to WIN! The feeling comes with winning. What he should have said was something like, “Remember how you did this; remember what it took, what you gave, to win. Learn to duplicate that.”

Cable may have lit a nice fire of emotion under this team, and that can win some games, but you don’t beat Steelers, Jets, Patriots, Ravens on emotion, you have to be highly motivated and bring a real GAME to beat teams like those, and there’s no Super Bowl, even if they make the playoffs, without beating at least two of those teams. Even if they did make it to the Super Bowl, you also don’t beat Saints, Falcons, Giants or Packers on emotion alone, and those are likely Super Bowl opponents.

Emotion is a big part of the game of football, sure, but when you get blown out by the Steelers (expected, sort of), then come right back and get trounced by the likes of Miami, it shows there’s some lack in the motivation department. Yeah, they settled down enough to come back and beat the Chargers again, but taking 2 weeks to get motivated after a hard loss still leaves the team at .500.

Cable needs to go. Period.

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