I always rated Jamaal, and count the loss of him as a bigger one than Joel. Jamaal held our left side attack together last year, this year we have nothing on the left. I would love to see stats on how many tries are scored on our right side (eg. because of Mogg) compared to the left. J-Lo (ask Quinny, I originally coined this nickname!!!!) scored 14 or so last season, we haven't got that between our wing and center this year and the seasons nearly through.
Plus he was a mad defender, something he doesn't show as much at the Dogs. How often did he come in for crunching tackles last season to save Bulgarelli or Graham's blushes.
IMO the Raiders management made more mistakes last off season than this. But the problem was we didn't have much money left over, which could be put back to previous management. The failure of Drew to deliver at half has ultimately put us back 2-4 years with the personnal we lost to accomodate him.