What does your season ticket holding and money spent on the raiders have to do with you being a homer when it comes to JaMarcus Russell? Or was that a failed attempt at making it seem like you make more money than I do? I see no correlation between your annual money spent on the Oakland raiders and your homerish view of your QB. I've spent more than 5 Gs on the Niners in past seasons, but that doesn't have anything to do with my views of Alex Smith. I don't see where you're coming from.
Without getting into specifics, what is it that you actually do?
Tell yourself what you need to tell yourself. I already went over this and you had nothing to say about it. He has shown he can move the ball when a defense is in prevent mode, trying to preserve a small lead. Any QB in the league can do that. You're blindly searching for reasons to give him credit.
If he really was able to "make things happen late in the game," you guys probably wouldn't be 1-4 right now.
No, you choose take what I say with a grain of salt because you don't like what I'm saying. I've already accepted Alex Smith's failures and moved on from it. I don't give a shit what your QB does or doesn't do. The fact of the matter is this is a public forum in which fans of several teams converse about a variety of topics and that's the only reason I have anything to say about Russell. I never bring the guy up, not even when talking to raider fans in real life. I just don't care about him. But when he is the subject at hand on this message board, you will get an opinion from me and whether you agree or disagree with it is up to you, but don't ever try to tell me why I've formed that particular opinion. You don't know me so don't act like you know why I form the opinions that I do.
By the way, you say you take my statements with a grain of salt because I'm a Niner fan and you assume I must have some ulterior motive behind them, but what about the raider fans who agree with me? Do you take their opinions with a grain of salt as well, or is it just me because I'm a fan of a different team and you don't want to accept my opinion? I'm thinking it's the latter.
It is what it is, I guess. Some of you just don't understand the way my mind works. Your team is not in our division, it has never knocked us out of the playoffs or done anything to ruin our season, it's not even in the same conference as my Niners. I understand the rivalry by proximity, but some of my closest friends and a lot of my family are fans of the Oakland raiders and I have no desire to hate their team just because it's across the Bay.
Your assumptions may be safe when it comes to other Niner fans, but not me. I challenge you to find one post I have made bashing the raiders without provocation from a raider fan. Everything I have ever said has been accompanied with reasoning.
