benchmobbin02 wrote:You said they were flip flopping and I said Hayden always starts over McGill so YES a preseason game and the others and the regular season. Hayden hasn't been getting torched and everyone of our young corners needs to step up.
I said they were flip flopping not because of the results of a couple meaningless practice games, but because through training camp McGill was often running with the ones alongside TJ Carrie. And if you think Hayden hasn't been getting torched, you haven't been following training camp where most every day he was getting torched by Crabtree, among others. And in the preseason games QBs are going after him, and completing some big passes. He can play tight coverage, but he has shown no ball skills, so the WR is able to make receptions even when he is closely covered.
All the CBs need to step up (though TJ is already stepping up). But of course there is more of a burden for DJ to step up since he was a high first round pick entering his third season and McGill is a fourth round pick coming off his rookie season and who has only appeared in four games, with one start.
Believe me, I hope the secondary is better than it seems this season. And playing them will at least answer the question of how much the Raiders can rely on them in the future. But people were shocked the Raiders didn't do much in FA or the draft to address the unit and call it the weakest unit for a reason.
