Antonio Brown would like a word." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesSilver And Black Pride homepageHorizontal - WhiteSilver And Black Pridean Oakland Raiders communityFollow Silver And Black Pride online:Follow Silver And Black Pride on TwitterFollow Silver And Black Pride on FacebookLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchSilver And Black Pride main menuFanpostsFanshotsRaidersOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Raiders StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Raiders NewsYahoo Raiders Team PageYahoo Raiders ReportYahoo Raiders Depth ChartYahoo Raiders TransactionsYahoo Raiders PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕ESPN shows serious flaws in taking PFF grades at face value Marcus Gilchrist Jersey , sees no elite or even ‘good/high quality’ players on Raiders rosterNew,63commentsAntonio Brown would like a word.PDTThere are benefits to sites like Pro Football Focus. They can offer insights on things basic statistics cannot. Splitting statistics into categories such as QB passing under pressure or on-target drops. The opposite is true if you take their player grades at face value. That’s what ESPN did this week with some ridiculous and ultimately useless results. In a piece this week on ESPN.com, they set about ranking all 32 teams’ rosters.Essentially, they plugged numbers into a computer with no actual thought involved. What it led to is most certainly an inaccurate view of the talent levels of players across the league.Friday we noted that this approach yielded the result of the Raiders roster being ranked 28th in the league. I can’t entirely argue with the ranking on its face, but where it gets highly questionable is looking at the grades of individual players.First and foremost, they don’t grade a single player on the Raiders roster as anything better than ‘Average.’ Players with grades of 90 or better are deemed ‘Elite’ and 80 to 89.9 are ‘Good/High quality’. No Raiders were graded at those levels.So, that means 7-time Pro Bowler and 4-time All Pro wide receiver Antonio Brown is ‘Average’. Two-time Pro Bowl center Rodney Hudson is ‘Average’. Pro Football Focus roster grade chartIn whose universe are two of clearly the top players at their position in the league ‘Average’?In ‘We entered the numbers into our computer and it gave us a number and we are too lazy to care if it’s inaccurate’ universe.Another serious flaw in the PFF grades which ESPN doesn’t take into account is that they make no delineation from sample sizes. For instance Tahir Whitehead Jersey , Darren Waller, who was active just four games last season, is given the same ‘Average’ status as the likes of AB, Hudson, and Lamarcus Joyner. While a proven guard like Gabe Jackson is actually deemed as below average.This is a reminder that you can’t eliminate the human element from these things. Or you end up looking like a fool. Follow @LeviDamien The Raiders played their first two games at home, but it is going to be some time before they play their next game in Oakland.They’ll be in Minnesota Sunday and Indianapolis in Week Four before heading to London for a “home” game against the Bears. A bye week follows and then they’ll be on to games in Green Bay and Houston before finally playing another game in Oakland on November 3.It was a scheduling quirk that the league’s vice president of broadcasting Michael North said he regretted when the slate was announced in April and it is one that still rankles Raiders head coach Jon Gruden.“We are still trying to understand how that happened, but we are going to have to deal with it Foster Moreau Oakland Raiders Jersey ,” Gruden said, via NBCSportsBayArea.com. “We just have to showcase our mental toughness and deal with it. It’s uncommon, maybe unprecedented, maybe unrealistic that this should ever happen in pro football. I’m not excited about it, but we’ll adapt and do it the best we can.”Uncommon though it may be, the Raiders are not alone in having that kind of gap between games in their home stadium. The Buccaneers have the same stretch this season and their coach Bruce Arians wasn’t any happier about it than Gruden.