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WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

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Pryor helps Raiders prepare for Newton
Vic Tafur
Thursday, December 20, 2012

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Terrelle Pryor, running 59 yards in preseason (above), is playing the role of Carolina's Cam Newton in practice to prepare the defense. Photo: Ben Margot, Associated Press / SF

How does a team prepare for Cam Newton, the first player in NFL history with 30-plus touchdown passes (39) and 20-plus touchdown runs (21) in his first two seasons?

Well, to hear Raiders players tell it, you pop in third-string quarterback Terrelle Pryor in practice and voila.

"Terrelle is the closest guy to Cam," running back Mike Goodson said. "We've got the guy."

Goodson played with Newton in Carolina last year and is with Pryor now in Oakland. And Goodson is not the only one saying how helpful Pryor has been simulating Newton in practice this week.

"It's been good," offensive coordinator Greg Knapp said. "You don't have to coach it up as much on defense" because the players can see it on the practice field.

Knapp said Pryor has done a good job of telling defensive players what he's seeing and what they're doing well.

"I am just trying to teach them a little bit," Pryor said. "If they can key on things that I tell them they are doing great, they'll be good. But if he gets to the edge, that's when problems happen.

Newton "is going to make plays. We just have to minimize it, and I am trying to help as much as I can."

Knapp said Pryor, who got in Sunday's win over Kansas City for three plays, will play this Sunday on third downs and "maybe in the red zone - try to create a different look for the defense."

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/artic...-prepare-for-Newton-4136866.php#ixzz2Fh0f9OOf
 
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The Raiders coach should be embarassed. Who's dumbass decision was it to go to Leinert after Palmer gets hurt? Your season is over. Leinert is what he is at this point a medicore to bad backup so you waste time on him instead of going to Pryor why exactly?
 
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dragurd;2281285; said:
The Raiders coach should be embarassed. Who's dumbass decision was it to go to Leinert after Palmer gets hurt? Your season is over. Leinert is what he is at this point a medicore to bad backup so you waste time on him instead of going to Pryor why exactly?
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Maybe Leinert is a better QB. Can't just throw away a season even if it's a bad one.
 
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Throw away a season they are 4-10, the season is over. Playing leinert at this point serves absolutely no purpose. Instead they should be getting Pryor reps to see if he can become in the future better then Leinert. being a better player now doesn't matter what is best for the team in the future does. Playing it otherwise screams of a coach who is either inept or running scared for his job thinking one more win might save it.

Put it this way in college terms. You have a RS freshman (reshirted last year just for clarification) that hasn't played , you have a junior starter and you have a senior backup that has never started. Your junior Qb gets hurt in the second to last season where you have say 2 or 3 wins. So no bowl game. Woud you play the senior or the RS Freshman?I contend even if the Senior is the better QB you will always play the redshirt freshman cause it might help your team going forward. now it introduces some things that dn't exist in the progame like should the senior start on senior night for being a good teamate etc and Leinart has only been their so um a senior transfer that followed n OC maybe?
 
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Jake;2281354; said:
This thread is starting to remind me of the Troy Smith thread. :popcorn:
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Was about to say the same thing. Their coaches see TP in practice every day. My guess is he's still not near ready to play QB against NFL defenses. He was an awesome college QB, but he clearly had a lot of work to do mechanics-wise to play QB in the NFL...he's probably not there. If that's the case, throwing him out there now, when he's nowhere near ready, would do more harm than good. Plus, season over or not, the way the Raiders fire coaches, they need to go with who they feel gives them the best shot to win right now. It's not always "dumb coaches" or "conspiracy" when a former Buckeye doesn't play.
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye;2281355; said:
The only difference though is that Troy was given a chance and couldn't do anything with it. TP isn't even getting that chance
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Plenty here, but not me, would disagree with your assessment re: Troy Smith.

Maybe TP isn't getting a chance because he hasn't shown anything to warrant it? We all love our Buckeyes, but that doesn't mean they're all destined for NFL greatness. Hell, Archie won 2 Heismans and was a middling NFL back. I never saw TP as an NFL passer. Comparing him to Newton in that regard is just a case of scarlet and gray goggles.
 
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zincfinger;2279052; said:
Don't agree that Cunningham had one of the best arms in NFL history.
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Thump;2281362; said:
:slappy: :slappy: :slappy:
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NFBuck;2281366; said:
Yeah, Cunningham had a cannon. Not particularly accurate, but had a big arm...
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That's what I'm saying. Definitions may vary, but by mine, being able to throw the ball a country mile, in and of itself, does not qualify you as possessing one of the best arms in NFL history. There are plenty of other guys who could launch it, but also had far quicker releases and could deliver the ball more accurately.
 
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Jake;2281357; said:
Plenty here, but not me, would disagree with your assessment re: Troy Smith.

Maybe TP isn't getting a chance because he hasn't shown anything to warrant it? We all love our Buckeyes, but that doesn't mean they're all destined for NFL greatness. Hell, Archie won 2 Heismans and was a middling NFL back. I never saw TP as an NFL passer. Comparing him to Newton in that regard is just a case of scarlet and gray goggles.
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That's my assumption. My opinion of his abilities as a QB aside, I doubt the coaches are holding him out because they hate the Buckeyes or some other superficial reason.
 
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