Raiders may find their perfect match to big problem via free agency
The Las Vegas Raiders are in need of some defense for 2023. Sure, the offense wasn't always consistent, but they were never as bad as the defense. In 2022 the Raiders were 10th in points per game at 23.2, but they also allowed the seventh most points per game at 24.6. Sure, they could use […]
The Las Vegas Raiders are in need of some defense for 2023. Sure, the offense wasn't always consistent, but they were never as bad as the defense. In 2022 the Raiders were 10th in points per game at 23.2, but they also allowed the seventh most points per game at 24.6.
Sure, they could use some work on both sides, but I think we all know which side needs the most work.
The Raiders need help not only at pretty much every level of the defense but especially in the secondary. With free agency coming up, they could do just that. Not to mention they have plenty of cap space. Per Spotrac.com, they have $46 million available for 2023, the third most in the league.
They also have a few other things going for them. According to one huge free agent in the upcoming class, the Raiders meet the criteria for a team he would love to join this summer.
"A lot of people ask me if it wasn't Buffalo, where would you go? I'd love to go to a state that doesn't take half of my money," Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer said on his podcast. "That has nothing to do with the city or anything to do with any of that. I would love to go to a place where they don't take half of my money. Just crazy to me that's how taxes work.
"Some people will say, you're already making X amount of money where the taxes even, you know taxes play a big part in all of our lives especially you know at the level that that we play at. So if it wasn't buffalo, be nice and warm, be nice to see the sun maybe every week or so, every other week, at least. I don't know what's gonna happen. I'd be happy to have an opportunity to play anywhere."
Poyer was just on a $19 million dollar contract over two years, and I think a contract like that could easily be something the Raiders do. It would immediately help the secondary, a position group that consists of only one real lock-in Nate Hobbs.
They need more experience and more talent in the defensive backfield because it just wasn't there last season. They could get that with Poyer, for fairly cheap, in my opinion. And, Las Vegas fits all of his criteria.
There is no individual state income tax in Nevada, and it doesn't really get cold there, and it definitely doesn't snow there. If I were the Raiders, I'd go for him. It definitely wouldn't hurt.
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