Quinn Gray visits Raiders (Why?)

When foreigners (and by “foreigners” here, we’re talking those non-citizens of Raider Nation) see nothing but chaos and disorder in Oakland football, they’re looking at the quarterback position.NFL Network – and speculators aplenty thereafter – reported that free Steelers 43 Polamalu jersey
agent Quinn Gray visited the Raiders yesterday after jumping through a few hoops for the Green Bay Packers on Monday. Some enthusiasts have Gray actually grabbing the starting position and mentoring JaMarcus Russell.Despite first attending camp as an undrafted free agent with Jacksonville in 2002, Gray is still an unknown quantity on this level. He performed impressively in a couple of second halves of games in 2005 and, when happening into the position of Jaguars starting QB mid-season last year, got mixed results. Though ultimately going 2-1 as a starter and scoring an 85.6 QB rating, Gray was crushed by the Colts in week 7 (9-of-24 for 56 yards, zero TDs, 2 interceptions), subverted his own 354-yard performance in throwing an un-Garrardian three picks against New Orleans in week 9, and turned in the best performance of his career went it didn’t matter in week 17.Not exactly the stuff of mentorship, eh?(To give some idea of the impression Gray has left in Jacksonville over five years, Jaguars.com senior editor Vic Ketchman was asked about the quarterback in his cleverly titled column “Ask Vic” last week. To wit: “Now that most of the big signings are over, I have not seen or heard anything about Quinn Gray. What's going on with Quinn?” Vic’s retort: “I’m assuming not much.” Now that’s concern about a veteran QB’s departure!)Word has it, too, that the Raiders are disinclined to keep Aaron Brooks around as well; the shell game at quarterback, a continuing escapade since Rich Gannon left the team has seen Josh “71.6” McCown, three-years-gone Daunte Culpepper, and good ol’ Andrew Walter toyed with as prospective starters. Poor Lane Kiffin might as well have been rolling dice with Romeo Crennel to determine his starter week to week as the front office dithered about signing Russell.Hey, Ronald Curry’s thrown a few passes through the years: Why not stick him in at quarterback for a while?Seriously, the truth is that all talk, 6 Super Bowl Champions jersey White jersey
speculation, jokes and kidding about Gray in silver-and-black come 2008 is digression. It’s simple, really, isn’t it? This club needs to start working JaMarcus Russell yesterday to truly build the game plan around this scary-looking natural athlete. Of course, in order to best accomplish this, it might be useful to assure Mr. Kiffin’s job security.On the other hand, Marques Tuiasosopo’s out there for the signing...Settling it once and for all throughout the year at .