An article citing the NFL players who were leaders in getting the most touchdowns in a season was published on Bleacher Report. This is an article related to it.
The focus of this article is to study those NFL players who were able to hold the honor of being touchdowns leaders in back to back seasons.
Those who received the honor of back to back leaders brought honor and respect to their team.
The list includes great football players before 1944 such as Don Hutson. Some historians categorize him in a so-called pre-modern era, spanning 1932 to, say, after World War II, in 1945.
During the ...
This 2010 NFL draft is a make or break for the Oakland Raiders. The Raiders cannot afford a bust in the first round this year. They need to pick a solid player who can step in and start immediately. Pick a player who plays a position we NEED, Al (no Taylor Mays, no Taylor Mays, no Taylor Mays....)! So guys, here is my 2010 draft for the Oakland Raiders. Enjoy.Begin Slideshow
Let’s assume that Al Davis stays true to his offseason mantra of pursuing players fresh off a Super Bowl experience—I mean, who can forget the wildly successful acquisition of Cowboys safety Larry Brown after Super Bowl XXX?
This was, perhaps, the worst knee-jerk reaction in Oakland Raiders history.
To recap this face plant: Davis snatched up a Super Bowl MVP (before the paint was even dry) and gave him a boat load of cash, only to find out that a Brown couldn’t play man-to-man defense.
Torched…
Brown played just 14 games for the franchise before being run out of town on a rail.
The same ...
This series just looked at Dana Eveland, recently dropped from the A's 40-man roster and traded to Toronto; so now it's only fitting to look at Steve Tolleson, claimed off waivers from Minnesota and recently added to the 40-man.
Before examining anything about Tolleson, I'm going to say I like this move. The A's have zero major-league-ready middle infielders behind big leaguers Cliff Pennington, Mark Ellis, and Adam Rosales, with only Yung-Chi Chen and Corey Wimberly anywhere near the majors. Both are stretched at short and have little or no AAA experience despite being in their mid-twenties.
So Tolleson is an important ...
Before I begin, I'd like to offer a quick apology for not posting the last two weeks. This was caused by two things:
1.) My computer got a really bad virus infection, causing me to have to wipe all my files and start over. Not fun.
2.) I accepted an offer from FanSided.com to become the lead blogger for their new San Diego Padres page. Why Padres and not A's? I wanted to keep my A's stuff here. Anyway, I've been busy getting that set up this past week or so. You can check the site out at chickenfriars.com ; the first ...
The best team of the 70’s? That was the Pittsburgh Steelers wasn’t it?
Like everything else, that opinion is subjective, and one Oakland Raider fan begs to differ.
The 70’s was the Golden Age of Raider football, and no other team in the AFC went the whole decade without a losing season. In the NFC only Dallas achieved this feat. But the league was different then, not full of "parity" as it is now, and some teams were dominant year in, year out. So it was with the Raiders.
There were no personal conduct policies, no fines for helmet-to-helmet contact on receivers and ...
Shoulder pads to build on
The 2009 season was difficult for Raider fans to endure. The quarterback play was horrific for nine games. The offensive line was fragile and inconsistent. The defense couldn't stop the run or tackle in the open field.
It wasn't a total loss though. There were some bright spots as well. We witnessed the emergence of some good young talent and the maturation of some others.
Zach Miller is an elite receiving TE in the league and seems to improve by the minute. He once again led the team in receptions and yards. If he continues to mature at ...
While this is likely to anger the fanbases of just about every team involved, the reality is that the league is not only trying to put a team in Los Angeles in the near future, but it is hoping that it can do so by means of an existing team moving rather than adding an expansion team. Los Angeles is one of the biggest markets in any sport, and the league has been trying for years to repopulate it with a team.
Recent developments including plans for an entirely new stadium complex show that attentions to putting a team there ...
The Raiders were once one of the leagues most feared teams.
They were known for bringing in players other teams deemed outcasts, has-beens, head-cases and criminals.
Yet with this cast of so-called mis-fits they were able to win.
The Raiders were once labeled as the leagues criminal element, neighborhood bullies and as a cast of mis-fits.
Now they're seen simply as a group of mis-fit athletes and track-stars.
Look at some of the great Raider head-cases and criminals we've had: Jon Ritchie, Greg Biekert, George Atkinson, Jack Tatum, Barret Robbins, Bill Romanowski, Darrell Russell, and the list goes on and on.
Then there are the outcasts we've brought ...
Recently, I was reminded of three characteristics of the drive that writers have: ethos, pathos, and logos. I immediately connected these ideas with the "drives" that I believe the Oakland Raiders need to more fully develop.
I admit that each of these drives overtakes me when I get my shovel and dig through the NFL data focusing on the Oakland Raiders.
I believe in a historical continuum. What existed in the past can serve as a foundation for the future. A knowledge of the history of a team can ignite, I believe, the ethos, pathos and logos of current players. We just ...