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Originally Posted by pure_raider
All you guys are saying that you can't judge Walter based on 2006. The truth is that we have already seen him judged by Kiffin and his staff. Walter was 4th on the depth chart, the Raiders had some very bad quarterback play last season and still never gave a start to Walter. It's hard to judge a guy who has played so little but sometimes you have to read between the lines.
I'm sure the team wants to sign a veteran backup but may be unable to do so beacuse of salary cap constraints.
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On the contrary,
Walter was 4th because he had to be.
McCown and Culpepper were the guys the paid to QB thru the 07' season.
Due to his late release by Miami, Culpepper had a lot of ground to cover.
McCown took the majority of snaps but got dinged, that made Culpepper's need for more reps priority and of course since the rookie #1 overall DP missed camp, he's gonna need to get up to speed too.
That left Walter the odd man out, but not neccessarily so this year.
He's just cuaght some tough breaks in his early career in Oakland.
He's had sometime to season and has definitely learned how tenuous the position of QB can be in the bigs.
I hope he stays considering the lack of replacement prospects.
I also hope he never sees the field for us in the next 5 years.