Raiders to waive Deangelo Hall

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Originally Posted by Daseal

That was late last night and it's not very clear re-reading it.

Here's what I meant. Hall is a good player to have around if things are going well for a team. If he's on a bad team, it makes things worse. All I can think right now is how the same people were calling Randy Moss a cancer. He went into a good situation in New England, now he's putting his arm around the young QB and working with him.

I think Hall is talented. He has had an absolutely abysmal year and I'm not planning on giving him a lucrative contract. I'd give him a fair offer take it or leave it. However, lets remember. All CBs are arrogant. They have to be. I wouldn't want it any other way. If you get beat, you have to forget it and still think you're going to shut the guy down. People show it in different ways, but arrogance is part of the position.

As far as being a Hokie fan. Not really. I pull for them since they're a local team, but I'm probably more aligned with Florida since my whole family on my Dad's side went there. Hence the Spurrier love (who I still stick by! More PPG than Gibbs!).

Okay, fair enough. I apologize for assuming your college football fanship.

I agree that he's having an abysmal year (as in worse than he normally is), but in my game breakdowns, I've really been hard on Fred Smoot this year for his inability to cover No. 2 WRs. At no point in DeAngelo's career has he been as good a cover corner as Fred Smoot.

When he was younger, there was always hope that he could develop into a better cover corner. A lot of scouts saw shutdown potential in the guy his first year or two in the league, but he's never really become a good cover corner. I don't want to judge the guy by his ego, because I'm certainly not qualified to do so.

But he's just not very good. 2007 might have been his best professional season, and even then, he would only have been a decent No. 2 corner. He was on a team where he was playing opposite a shutdown corner, chasing the opponents' No. 2 WR all over the field, and he couldn't do anything. Maybe he's a little bit injured, but either way, he has no defensive value.