Well upon further review, the owls are not what they seem on this one...
Let's further review, shall we....
1. Asomugha plays one side of the field, he does not line up with a specific receiver like Revis usually does. SOMEBODY here forgot to mention that. If a team wants to keep their best receiver away from Asomugha, it's easy...just go to the other side of the field. Can't do that against Revis, he follows the guy he's covering wherever he goes.
Good point. But teams, LIKE Arizona this year(2 catches, for Larry Fitzgerald), Denver(2 games, Brandon Lloyd and Jabbar Gaffney, between the both 6 catches) Pittsburgh(Hines Ward, 2 catches) and Indianapolis(Reggie Wayne, 3 catches) they STILL challenged him. Those are some of the better to Elite WR in the league....and they tried and not very successfull.
2. The Raiders' other cornerbacks have not been very good, so it's very easy to avoid Asomugha and pick on somebody else. Revis is playing on a defense that has other talented cornerbacks, so avoiding Revis can still get you in trouble.
Raiders corners THIS year were rated #1 against pass completion percentage as posted by the top rated Stats, Inc. LAST YEAR, the Raiders pass defense was ranked 7th in the league...as bad as the team was. And the season before that, it was STILL a top ten pass defense. And the year before THAT, it was ranked 8th. And the year before THAT, it was #1 in the NFL. SO, the Raiders pass defense has been ranked in the top ten EVERY since the 2006 season.
So apparently, that statement of your about the Raiders pass defense not being very good goes to show you that you inventing things and pulling them from who knows what.... So with ALL those years with the Raiders pass defense ranked in the top ten....is that telling something?? HHMMMM???!!!
3. Unlike the Raiders, the Jets have played with a lot of leads the last two years, so on occasion they go into 'prevent', which allows short completions. Case in point was the game on Sunday against New England, where the Jets were OK with the Patriots driving down the field at 28-14 as long as they took time off the clock doing so. This forces the corners back and artificially inflates passing and receiving stats, which is why quoting stats for a CB is ridiculous. The Raiders have not gone into 'prevent' very much recently.
Another misleading statement. The Raiders, even when they were a good team and had leads in the past, they have NEVER been known to pay prevent because Raiders CB throughout heir thistory have ALWAYS taken pride in playing man-to-man. That was Raider football....always been and always will be.
4. As stated before, Asomugha has NEVER played in a playoff game, against the best teams with the best QB's and the best receivers on the biggest stage. He has never really played in a big regular season game for that matter, in his eight year career. It's a different world.
Maybe not in the biggest stages like a playoff, but HAS played and HAS shutdown some of the best WR since he came to Oakland...so to state he has NOT played and shutdown big time players is false. The last few games when the Raiders STILL had a breath to possibly make the playoffs, he shutdown some big name WRs in playoff type type atmosphere.
5. .... at his age I would not want to commit to too many years.
The only thing I agree with.
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