Jerome Stanley, the agent for Oakland Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor, believes coach Dennis Allen wants his client to fail. Stanley called Allen's decision to start Pryor in the season-finale against Denver as a "ridiculous" attempt to make Pryor look bad in order to justify having started backup Matt McGloin.
"I think they're putting him in hopes that he fails," Stanley told CSNBayArea.com on Monday. "That's what I think the coach is doing. I think they're putting him in hopes that he has a bad game, so he can then justify the Matt McGloin situation. I think that's what's going on, I do and it's ridiculous...
"You have to understand the coach putting him in, he doesn't want him to look good. And you can write that. He doesn't want him to look good because, if he looks good this week, it makes the past five weeks look like a bad decision. (Allen) doesn't want him to look good, he wants him to look bad. That is what is going on."
Pryor started eight of the Raiders' first nine games — he missed the Washington game because of a concussion — before spraining his right MCL on Nov. 10 against the New York Giants, according to ESPN.
McGloin, an undrafted rookie free agent from Penn State, earned the start the following week against the Houston Texans and led the Raiders to a 28-23 win.
Despite Pryor's knee healing, McGloin remained the starter through Week 16.
While Stanley believes Allen's decision to start Pryor is a ploy to make the former Ohio State quarterback look bad, Allen insisted it's merely an opportunity to further evaluate his signal callers.
"We got a chance to see Matt McGloin for six games," Allen told CSNBayArea.com earlier on Monday. "I liked a lot of the things that I saw in Matt. It's been a while since we've gotten an opportunity to see Terrelle in a game and I want to get him in the game and get another opportunity to evaluate him."
McGloin, who won only won game, passed for 1,547 yards, eight touchdowns and eight interceptions; Pryor, who won three games, passed for 1,591 yards, five touchdowns and 11 interceptions along with two rushing touchdowns.
Oakland (4-11) concludes its season on Sunday against the Denver Broncos.
