Here's a decent read on the roaring 20s that covers all three.

My guess is Fargas will start .... sharing time with Bush and Dmac being Featured on select plays. Dmac's touches will increase as the season goes on or when Fargas gets dinged up.

I'm going to enjoy playing the dischargers. For the first time in years when they blitz There will actually be a risk.

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Oakland Raiders: Two backs, two styles, same story

By Rob Calonge | May 14th, 2008

So you’ve heard or read the stories from last weeks’ Oakland Raiders rookie mini camp, right? If you have, then you already know that McFadden is as fast as advertised. He can also catch, play quarterback, and he’s exciting despite drawing Coach Knapp’s ire for not running a full 40 yards on a play or feeling some of Coach Rathman’s wrath for not holding onto the ball correctly.

If you know that, then you already know that Michael Bush looked every bit as good, just not as flashy. Bush showed that he was fit, big, and fast enough while catching passes and running through the line. While being so different from each other, they combine to form something eerily similar to Raider Nation.

Going back to the days of glory for Raiders fans, when they had Clarence Davis and Mark Van Eeghen to the more recent times of Charlie Garner and Tyrone Wheatley, the Raiders have always striven to have a quick one-two punch to hammer opponents with. Bush is very much the ‘thunder’ to McFadden’s ‘lightening’, and they are the future of the Oakland Raiders running game.

Bush and McFadden will have to use every skill they have to get on the field this year

Both, with their differing physical attributes, rushing styles, and paths to the Raiders will have one thing in common this season. They will both be backing up Justin Fargas. Lost in the shuffle and the hype is the fact that the league’s best running back in the second half of ‘07 is the starter on the Oakland Raiders. While people are bedazzled by the speed of McFadden and startled by the size of Bush, they may want to remember that Fargas has both speed and strength to spare.

The reason that Fargas flies so far below the radar is that he wasn’t a very high profile back when he was selected in the third round of the draft. Many analysts had him going in the fifth round or later and when the Raiders drafted him, he was considered a reach by many due to his injury problems. People forget that he was highly recruited to Michigan because of his speed, like McFadden, and was on his way to starting there before he broke his leg, like Bush.

After his broken leg derailed him at Michigan, he transfered to USC and became a backup. Like last season with the Raiders, when he finally got his chance with the Trojans he shined and their running game instantly improved.

Garnering the nickname ‘Crash Test Dummy,’ Fargas has shown that he can be a complete running back. He can run, he can block, but his only deficiency could be called his untested pass catching skill.

Like McFadden, Fargas also had a problem holding onto the ball, but through his hard work and determination, he seems to have solved that problem. McFadden would be wise to learn that from Fargas. Also, it’s been said and written many times that McFadden runs more straight up than Fargas. McFadden may be a half step faster than Fargas, but he should probably also learn how to avoid the big hits.

Doling out hits is what many will expect from Bush. Right or wrong, they will expect him to punish defenders and given his size and hunger, those expectations will probably be realized. Let’s not forget that Fargas is also pretty good at dishing out punishment. The nickname swings both ways in a jaw dropping hit.

Now before OakFoSho and anyone else start in on me, I’m going to preface these comments by saying that nobody, including the coaching staff, knows who will be the RB starter in 2008. What I am saying, is that while everyone is waiting to see thunder and lightening, don’t make the same mistake that other defenses have made and forget that the Raiders are already starting that in one back.

Bush has injury problems, Fargas has injury problems. McFadden is fast, Fargas is fast. Bush punishes defenders when they tackle him, Fargas does too. McFadden has great moves, so does Fargas. Bush and McFadden both can catch out of the backfield well, Fargas…well let’s just say that’s HIS question mark.

If anyone can rotate all three of these guys in a successful manner, Coach Kiffin can. He’s already proven that in the past. He’s just going to have to do a better job of it in 2008 than he did in 2007. That defense had better be good though, because the Raiders are going to need more plays on offense