Raiders cut LB Rolando McClain; Update - Suspended instead

TomRalph · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 5816 Location: Leeds, England

Looks like the Pats chose the correct slow/can't cover/2 down linebacker Very Happy

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BrettFavre4 · Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Posts: 301 Location: Buffalo

Despite what is said about him not excelling in a 4-3, I'd like to think the Bills should be all over putting in a claim. He's a project, a big one, that's for sure. But we're one of the worst at the linebacker position and it'd be a typical Bills pickup.

There's no way another team doesn't give him a chance. The guy was #8 overall only two years ago. No matter how much he's sucked you don't just not take a chance on a guy with that pedigree, considering how much upside he could still have. Like I said before, due in part to both on and off field issues, he's a huge project, and likely will make some teams shy away due to character alone, not to mention the way he just walked out on his team mid-season. But other teams will see past that and I think the Bills would be willing to. We gave Merriman a shot. I don't see why we wouldn't try for McClain too.

However, one thing that does concern me about both Curry and now McClain is that they've both been let go by the Raiders, who have one of the worst defenses, specifically run-defenses, in the NFL. One has to think if you can't stay on the Raider roster, how good are you really? But this release could also be moreso to do with his attitude rather than his play, which has also been poor. Who knows? All I know is I'd be very shocked to see him go unclaimed. Quite a few teams will look past the issues and take a chance on this guy for potential alone. It's a Bills-esque type of move that takes some guts, so I wouldn't mind us trying for him, no matter what his attitude is.

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TomRalph · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 5816 Location: Leeds, England

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CrashMan510 · Joined: 14 Aug 2012 Posts: 2723 Location: Bay Area

Coming out of the draft i heard how he was a leader, intelligent football player, hard worker ect. He was the complete opposite of that, horrible athlete too. He's not going to do ish in the league.
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Nightmare · Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 2582

To all the fans of teams saying you should give him a shot, just... don't.

It's similar to when we traded a 7th round pick to Seattle for Curry last year. Hawks fans tried to warn us that even that wasn't worth it, that the guy was a bum, and we were wasting our time. We ignored them and assumed it was just them being bitter at him not living up to his 1st round selection. Nope, they were right. He was awful. And it's the same deal here. You don't want this waster on your team.
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Professor Oak · Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 3136 Location: Pallet Town

Jetsman82 · Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 18356

With how crappy the Jets are at LB, I wouldn't mind them picking him up. On the other hand, I feel like he's just as much to blame as the team for this. Still, a very talented player, I doubt he'll sit out there long.

Darkness · Joined: 24 Jun 2012 Posts: 4190 Location: CA-TX

Raidin · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 4309 Location: Dublin

In 3-4 team he can definitely be a starter for another 8 years or so. He's not as bad as Raider fans make out tbh. He's been no worse than Wheeler or Burris really, certainly not Wheeler. One thing is that he rarely makes any plays but he still doesn't abused as often as Wheeler in coverage or in the run game. He's average but if you pay him like he's average then wouldn't be to bad.

Funnily enough the Raiders still haven't cut him and it seems people were a bit hastey in reporting it.
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coors · Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 6367 Location: Atlanta

I knew that Rol had not lived up to where he was drafted so high at #8, but I didn't think that he was playing so badly that getting cut was inevitable. Raiders fans I'm sure you can help fill me in... I was a big fan of his coming out of Bama, I had seen almost all of his games pretty much when he was with the Crimson Tide, but after getting drafted and going to Oakland, I have seen him play a full game maybe 1 time, with random appearances every so often, usually on national televised games because here in Atlanta we don't get many Raiders games at all.. so what was his issue? I knew that he had been pretty raw coming out of college, it seemed like at Bama he was able to use his size and athletic ability to just overpower a lot of guys.. but clearly you can't do that at the NFL level. What has been his downfall?

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Just saw his tweet that Billy posted..:

SwiftTexan · Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 2424