SunCardfan said:
The Scouts Draft and Mel Kiper now have Roy Williams going to the Raiders. They say Al Davis has fallen in love with his speed. Does anybody think this is possible or do you think it is hype?
What are the odds of us taking him? I'd still like Fitz more but Green is in love with speed and Roy Williams definitely has it. I know some of you guys say Johnson is our speed guy but he's never looked that fast to me.
That's the local rumor but I keep going back to Artie Gigantino saying on tv on the Raiders post game show "I know for a fact Al Davis covets Larry Fitzgerald of Pitt." This was before anybody had a clue if Fitz would be in the draft before. it was before Callahan was fired, after that, Gigantino became an official Raider spokesman, and stopped making such comments in public.
So unless Davis now prefers Roy, I'm banking they still prefer Fitz. If you think about it, when he said it, everyone thought LF was slower than he ran at his workout, Roy basically ran what you expected based on his rep, Fitz ran faster than expected. So if Davis coveted him before, he would surely do so now that he ran faster I would think?
But you can never be sure, locally there is definite talk that Roy's workout has the Raiders looking hard at him.
Remember, everyone keeps talking about Porter as the "deep threat", a guy who has only 18 catches over 20 yards in his career 12 in 2002 his only year where he really played. Career average of 13 YPC. He's fast on the Raiders, but he's not really a burner, and that seems to be where teh Roy Williams over FItz talk is coming from, need a REAL fast guy to stretch the field.
