Raiders Waive Safety Jonathan Dowling

Raider fans are pretty ticked off about this.

at our rate thus far

but at this rate, he would be a talent increase I think

bring him in.
Give him a serious talking to, the rest is up to him and his skills.

@VicTafur: League sources say Dowling was cut do to maturity issues, and not his play on the field. #Raiders were trying to trade him last two days

I would still put in a waiver claim. He's a lot better than Justin Halley and C.J. Conway.

Bring him in and he turns it all around and is a stud

So people on. Bigraiderinteractive freak out that they let him go

and keep him safe

on him from Raiders site
Dowling - ( New Window )

@VicTafur: Talked to few more people re Dowling: Series of small incidents built up to where coaches decided to move on; personalities were a bad fit

could be good for Dowling,

Would he be another body for practice?

but isn't a great tackler.
nfl.com Draft Profile on Jonathan Dowling - ( New Window )

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They are probably going to be cutting a decent safety. They have eight right now.

bring him in, but my guess is it's moot. Somebody with a superior waiver claim will probably also think that they can rehabilitate and control him.

of players on the street by Sunday

They will have to cut somebody who can play.

In fact, Buffalo is deep pretty much everywhere, showing that it can be done even in the current environment.

except QB.

In comment 12441516 Eric from BBI said:

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except QB.

That's certainly not a function of not trying. They drafted Manual. He just isn't very good.

People can laud Reese til the cows come home but he's had some big misses in the draft and his cap managing has been lacking. Huge reasons for lack of depth. Also he was handed Eli. Maybe that hurt his cap flexability but that's his fault due to so many misses in the draft 3-5 years ago

A 7th round pick last year that only managed to play 7 games his rookie of year for the crappy Raiders, and ammassed a whole 4 total tackles. He's a bum, pass.

I hate seeing the maturity stuff but this is a talented player. He was one of the players I would've drafted last in one of those 'If I were the GM' type threads (I think I posted it in Sy's thread).

Maybe leaving an organization like the Raiders and coming to one like the Giants will be good. Maybe he needs a change of scenery. Maybe this was an eye opener. And tbh maybe it won't be. Nonsense aside though he has more athletic talent than any safety on our roster.

We're bringing the great Stevie Brown back

to bring in every cut safety in the league just to field a team.