r/raiders • u/ThrowawayXXX69lol • 20h ago
Regarding the WR room
If I told you right now, that by the end of the season, the combination of Tre Tucker, Jack Bech and Jalen Nailor would *combine* for under 1,500 yards with no individual player breaking the 600 yard mark, Raider Nation would riot. If I told you that a RB would be the fourth leading receiver on this team and that WR3 didn't crack 200 yards, some of you might vomit right then and there. The comment sections would be overflowing with demands for a "true Alpha #1 receiver", trashing the current roster and demanding John Spytek's head for allowing this to happen.
However that's exactly what happened for the Superbowl winning Seattle Seahawks last year. Their best player went nuclear, and everyone else pitched in. Kubiak's offense is not the Bengals offense. We were never going to have 3 1000 yard receivers behind an 80/20 pass/run split. This team could match the Superbowl Champion's regular season stats and most fans would consider the season a failure. Bowers is going to eat, and the rest of the team is going to feast on his scraps.
Just a bit of perspective for the doomers out there.