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The Raiders 2008

After the pre-season I trimmed the playbook a little. I removed some of the hastily created plays I put in to satisfy one of the goals (of adding 10), but a couple actually faired pretty well in the pre-season when I ran them, so I did keep those.

It would appear that McFadden will be my top rookie coming out of camp and I'm really anxious to see what he can do this year. I do plan to platoon as much as the game will allow, and have kept four RB to break camp.

I feel this year of Raiders has a great young crop of receivers (plus more of those pesky big contracts on some vets) so I've decided to retain six WR. We'll see if that comes back to haunt me later? That was at the expense of retaining only Miller as my lone TE.

Final Cuts
The following four players have been released:
TE Madsen (57ovr)
LE Scott (71ovr)
CB Johnson (79ovr)
LT Wand (81ovr)
** I did try to trade each away, but there were no takers. I felt a little bad cutting the veteran Wand, but I decided to go with some youth and smaller cash behind my OLine starters. And Johnson was a very tough call, opting instead to retain a couple of rookies on 3-year deals at a great price as backups.

Without further delay, here are your 2008 Raiders:

Oakland Raiders Depth Chart - 2008
Regular Offense
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
WR	Carter 80	Curry 78	Higgins 77
TE	Miller 81
LT	Harris 83
LG	Gallery 82	Terrell 81	McQuistan 80
C	Wade 81	Morris 79
RG	Wellborn 84	Grove 79
RT	Wilson 87	Green 80	Henderson 79
WR	Walker 79	McFoy 74	Shields 75
QB	Russell 76	Walter 79	Pittman 71
FB	Griffith 80	O'Neal 73
HB	McFadden 83	Fargas 79	Jordan 77	Bush 71
Base 4-3 Defense
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
LDE	Edwards 75	Richardson 74
LDT	Babineaux 77	Warren 69
RDT	Kelly 76	Sands 63
RDE	Burgess 84	Beck 71
WLB	Williams 83	Thomas 72
MLB	Morrison 81	Hartwell 78	Simmons 72
SLB	Howard 88	Williams 72
CB	Asomugha 89	Routt 78	Bowe 70
SS	Wilson 82	Baker 77
FS	Huff 88	Eugene 79
CB	Hall 85	Branch 68
Special Teams
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
K	Jankowski 89
P	Lechler 93

JUST WIN BABY!