Luckily for him, good teams usually don't play their starters in the 4th game, so Oakland should be playing theirs 1s against Seattle's 2s -- in other words an even matchup.
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Week 3 video for those that missed it:
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap2000000233448/Pre-Week-3-Terrelle-Pryor-highlights
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap2000000233448/Pre-Week-3-Terrelle-Pryor-highlights
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billmac91
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Even in his lone start last year against San Diego, I thought he looked really solid. His pocket awareness is at another level from most young QB's. His mechanics are still poor, but they always will be. It's his ability to slide in the pocket and re-plant his feet that makes me feel he can be successful. He isn't out there just scrambling every play because he's an athlete. He actively looks to throw, almost to a fault.
The Raiders are terrible, but I honestly think, and have for a while now, that Terrelle will be very successful for several years. I still think he's more talented than Cam Newton.
The Raiders are terrible, but I honestly think, and have for a while now, that Terrelle will be very successful for several years. I still think he's more talented than Cam Newton.
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Buckskin86
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Terrelle Pryor move a positive for Raiders
Ann Killion
Monday, August 26, 2013
Terrelle Pryor, who arrived in camp as a backup candidate to Matt Flynn, could start the Raiders' opener. Photo: Eric Risberg, Associated Press
The fourth and final preseason game usually doesn't mean much. The roster and starters are mostly set. For most teams, it's just a formality.
Ah, but not for the Raiders, who don't really do formalities. They have burning questions everywhere, including the Big Daddy of them all, the one that keeps intrigue flowing and social media humming:
Who is the starting quarterback?
Right now, it looks as though the job is Terrelle Pryor's to lose.
To the delight of most Raiders fans, Pryor will get the start Thursday night in Seattle. If he plays well again - as he did Friday night against Chicago - he probably will end up starting the regular-season opener in Indianapolis on Sept. 8. And that will energize Raiders fans, which is a good thing.
This team has to sell something and if it's the athletic promise of Pryor, well that's better than nothing. Which is the alternative.
Making Pryor the starter would, however, thwart the Raiders' original plan to go with Matt Flynn. The Raiders traded for Flynn in the offseason and signed him to a restructured two-year, $11.5 million deal, with a $6.5 million guaranteed. The job was his, even though he hadn't done too much to earn it, either in Seattle or Green Bay. But he was going to be the safe pick, the one that would hurt the Raiders the least.
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http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Terrelle-Pryor-move-a-positive-for-Raiders-4762761.php
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Buckskin86
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Terrelle Pryor makes his case to become Oakland Raiders' quarterback
By Jerry McDonald
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Posted: 08/28/2013
SEATTLE -- Terrelle Pryor views his starting assignment against the Seattle Seahawks as another step toward his eventual destiny.
``Every day, I'm trying to get one percent better, and I won't stop until I get to my goal,'' Pryor said. ``My goal is to be a starting quarterback, to lead this team to wins. I'll keep pushing every day until it happens.''
If Pryor fares well against the Seattle Seahawks Thursday night at CenturyLink Field, his goal could be achieved sooner than expected.
With quarterback Matt Flynn resting a sore right throwing arm, Pryor will open the game with the first team and remain on the field after both teams have removed their starters. For a fourth preseason game, it's about as
Oakland Raiders' Terrelle Pryor scrambles against the Chicago Bears' in the second quarter at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. (Jim Gensheimer/Bay Area News Group)
close as it gets to high drama.
The Raiders original plan going into the season was for Flynn to be the starter, with Pryor being available for an occasional change-of-pace quarterback with play-calling suited to his athletic skills.
Coach Dennis Allen was forced to rethink that plan after Pryor's strong performance against the Chicago Bears in the third preseason game, coupled with Flynn's two interceptions. Pryor entered the game with 24-0 deficit and brought the Raiders within 27-20 with a 25-yard touchdown run and a 19-yard touchdown pass to Nick Kasa.
``The thing he brings is an element of athleticism that allows him to get out of trouble and make some plays with his feet,'' Allen said. ``And I've said this all along about Terrelle -- he works extremely hard. Any time you've got a talented player that works extremely hard, you've got a chance to get better.''
With Flynn operating against the first team and Pryor against the second during the preseaso, the Raiders have 10 points in 13 drives with Flynn at quarterback and 26 points in 10 drives with Pryor.
``The thing that he does is he gives you a spark,'' free safety Charles Woodson said. ``That's something that can't really be accounted for. He gets in a game and I think we almost expect something big to happen when he's in there.''
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http://www.insidebayarea.com/raider...e-pryor-makes-his-case-become-oakland-raiders
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Pryor has looked a lot better than Flynn, who has probably schnookered his last NFL team. I hope he gets the job although he doesn't have a great supporting cast. Still, it'll give me a reason to pay a little attention to a once proud NFL franchise.
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Wells4Heisman
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Wishing Pryor the best. Oakland may not be the ideal situation but he can win them some games.
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Buckskin86
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Raiders offense can cater to Pryor
August 28, 2013
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He’s going to be that athletic quarterback that we are going to ask to carry the football, but we need him to develop as a passer as well.
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— Greg Olson on Terrelle Pryor
Greg Olson created an offensive package this offseason to get Raiders backup quarterback Terrelle Pryor on the field. He didn’t want such athleticism to lay fallow, not on a team in desperate need of offensive talent.
It started small, with a read option play here, a designed run there. The offensive coordinator considered it an accent piece to his offense, something to convert a first down or cross a goal line every now and then.
Pryor easily digested those plays, so Olson gave him more to chew. Even still, it was a novelty.
Now it could be a full time thing. Pryor is a legitimate contender to start behind center, which has forced Olson to adjust and expand Pryor’s responsibilities.
“We signed Matt [Flynn] with the thought being that he’s going to come in and be the starter, and we would have that package for Terrelle,” Olson said. “But Terrelle has done some things in these preseason games that we’ve been excited about; stuff that a lot of people are excited about. With his success on the field, we’ll continue to add to that package. It was the thought process going in to it. There wasn’t a big package for him a year ago, so we had to absorb that first part. As we continue to grow offensively, we’ll continue to add plays for Terrelle.”
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http://www.csnbayarea.com/raiders/raiders-offense-can-cater-pryor
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3 for 8, 31 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT. 9.9 QB Rating. That's not good.
Did have 48 yards rushing on 3 carries with a long of 25 though.
Did have 48 yards rushing on 3 carries with a long of 25 though.
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Buckskin86
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Pryor does little to win Raiders' starting QB job
Vic Tafur
Friday, August 30, 2013
Terrelle Pryor recovers his fumble after the ball was knocked loose by Ty Powell and Jaye Howard. Photo: Elaine Thompson, Associated Press
Seattle --
Terrelle Pryor didn't need to be a perfect 10 to win the starting quarterback job Thursday night, probably just a 7.
But Pryor was a 9.9, as in his quarterback rating, after throwing an interception and finishing 3-for-8 for 31 yards against the Seahawks. He did run for 48 yards on three carries in his half of play, one the Raiders finished trailing 16-6 in an eventual 22-6 loss.
Was it enough to beat out Matt Flynn, who sat out this game with a sore arm? Does it even matter for a Raiders team that has scored 16 points combined in the first halves of the final three preseason games?
To the first question, head coach Dennis Allen said he knows who his starting quarterback will be Week 1 against the Colts in Indianapolis.
"I'm not telling you, but yes," Allen said. "For competitive reasons, we are going to keep it in house."
After the game, Flynn said his arm felt better. When asked if he knew who the starting quarterback would be in Week 1, he said, smiling, "I don't think so."
Flynn has not looked confident in the pocket, and has missed open receivers downfield when pressured. Pryor's throwing mechanics are still under construction, and on Thursday, he reverted to jumping on a lot of his passes. His interception, a deep pass to Jacoby Ford, sailed, though Ford could have come back and broken up the interception.
Allen was asked if Pryor showed him anything he didn't know coming into the game.
"No," Allen said. "It's kind of what I expected. He is a good athlete, he can create plays with his feet. There is still some meat on the bone that we have to improve."
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http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Pryor-does-little-to-win-Raiders-starting-QB-job-4773704.php
Posted August 30, 2013
Removed from the NCAA’s drama, Terrelle Pryor tries to earn a starting job in Oakland
By Doug Farrar
Terrelle Pryor had more rushing yards than passing yards against the Seahawks on Thursday night. (Otto Greule, Jr./Getty Images)
SEATTLE — Terrelle Pryor has to wonder what might have been, in many different ways.
Had he been nailed for bartering merchandise for tattoos (and autographs for thousands of dollars, and accepting cars, and heavens knows what else!) a few years later, when the NCAA had a miniature pony to ride as opposed to its previous high horse, he might not have been suspended for five games by the NCAA, chosen to leave the Ohio State program, and been subsequently suspended for five games by the NFL in an interesting disciplinary cross-promotion. If he was Johnny Manziel in 2013 and not Terrell Pryor in 2010, he might have ended his escapades (whatever they had been) with a few months of bad press, a half-day of meetings with a couple NCAA bag men, and a half-game suspension for his trouble.
Then again, maybe not. The NCAA found far more on Pryor than it did on Manziel, but it could be argued that the NCAA was far more inclined to look back then.
Had Pryor been selected in the 2011 supplemental draft by an NFL team other than the Oakland Raiders — a franchise that has seen more than its fair share of organizational and personnel upheaval in the last three seasons — he might be on a faster track to NFL success at his position.
Then again, maybe not. Many NFL teams saw Pryor as a potential receiver or H-back when he came out of college the hard way. A high percentage of scouts thought him a limited passer who would be confounded by NFL defenses, and no amount of recent option success in the NFL was going to change the minds of certain people. At this level, you either get it, or you don’t.
“I was at an Ohio State practice a couple years ago,” one scout told TheMMQB.com Editor-in-Chief Peter King of Pryor in June, 2011, “and he was so wild that they had to scale back what they were doing so his confidence wouldn’t be ruined. His accuracy is going to be a real problem.”
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http://nfl.si.com/2013/08/30/remove...ryor-tries-to-earn-a-starting-job-in-oakland/
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