If the Oakland Raiders finish the season above .500 this year, Richard Seymour must be at least considered for league MVP.
What?
Yeah, I said it.
Seymour so far looks to be the main culprit behind a turnaround after seven years of darkness.
They say that defense wins games, and that the trenches are the most important part of a football game. Both of those descriptions fit Seymour.
Add to that the fact that Seymour is having the biggest impact on his team so far this season.
Even though they are winning now, you can see the negative impact losing Seymour has had on the Patriots. They lost last week ...
For several years, both my favorite NFL team and my favorite SWAC college team had a few challenges. Suddenly in 2010, things are looking up for the Oakland Raiders and Texas Southern University.
Some great NFL players attended colleges in the SWAC conference—The SWAC conference is composed of historically black colleges and universities. At one time in history, many of the players from this conference were in the AFL. Now, they show up in the NFL.
Some of the past players who attended Texas Southern University were:
W. K. Hicks
Winston Hill
Michael Strahan
Ernie Holmes
And many others.
Recently, Texas Southern University's (TSU) performance on the gridiron has been impressive ...
The Raiders matter again. People are talking about the Raiders, and this is a great thing for the NFL, the Raider Nation and Al Davis.
ESPN, CBS Sports, Yahoo and other sports websites are talking about them and their rise to relevance. One writer went as far as calling Oakland the new "America's Team."
While the Raiders are only 5-4, and a long ways away from the playoffs, they are back and people can't help but talk about them.
The organization has change, the attitude has changed. It took all the owners, the coaches, the players and all of the fans to make ...
The last three weeks has been a heck of a ride for the Oakland Raiders. They have destroyed past and present AFC West rivals 115-37 dominating on both sides of the ball.
This has sent the Raider Nation into overdrive with dreams of the play-offs and divisional crowns seemingly now with-in their grasp.
It is easy to feel the elation at finally managing to rid the Raider tradition of the darkness that has surrounded the past seven seasons and derogatory epithets such as “dysfunctional”. This monkey is well and truly off their back, as loyalty, consistency, wise drafting, solid free-agency pick-ups, good ...
Over at my site—www.GuysNation.com—I do a weekly power ranking of all 32 NFL teams. It's a hugely subjective process in which I try to account for a team's strength of schedule, margin of victory, good wins and bad losses.
Where do the Oakland Raiders currently rank after nine weeks of NFL action?
Last week I wrote that I usually try not to get too excited about any one victory, even in the case of blowout wins by huge margins, but what about when a team gets ...
Raider Nation will always push for the best.
During last Sunday's game against KC, Raiders fans everywhere showed everyone in the country that the Nation will never die.
I have played in almost every NFL stadium and have a good feel for most of the fan base. Now, I am not just saying this because I have love for the Raider Nation, but McAfee stadium on Sunday afternoon in the rain was one of the craziest stadiums I have ever been apart of in all my years playing and attending.
When the Raiders went in at half time with zero on the scoreboard, the fans didn't even flinch. There was ...
Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane has made it clear: The As will acquire a power hitter before the offseason is over.
We've heard that before.
Days after having a bid accepted for Japan's premier pitcher, Hisashi Iwakuma, the Athletics have pulled the trigger for a bat in the lineup.
The burning question remains.
Why did they trade the highly clouted pitching prospect Vin Mazzaro for an outfielder with literally no power?
The answer can't be found.
Vin Mazzaro has the ability to be a rotation ace and Billy Beane has really dropped the ball with this trade. Not to mention, the Athletics also dealt prospect pitcher ...
As if Al Davis needed to voice his opinion, he's done it again.
The NFL fanbase understands the exponential confidence that Tom Cable has instilled within the players, so why can't the Oakland Raiders' owner grasp the concept?
In a tumultuous reign over the last decade, Al Davis has been at the center of many unorthodox decisions.
From trading for Randy Moss to starting Andrew Walter, and most famously his JaMarcus Russell fetish, Al Davis tends to make decisions based on good old-fashioned physicality. Whoever is on the sideline "running" the team is never more than a puppet, as Al remains the shot-caller.
Yesterday, ...
There was an old song titled, "Straighten up and fly right." It was written by Nat King Cole.
Before and during bye week, sharing a little wisdom and broadcasting a warning seems right. After looking at the data immediately after bye week, I think that you will agree that the Oakland Raiders need to be put on notice.
As a researcher on the careers of some former professional football players, at this moment a few guys may be slipping and sliding, having a little fun during bye week.
It's okay to have fun, but not so much fun that your "head is bad," ...
"Just Win baby" just wasn't getting the job done anymore. With that phrase as the team's motto, the Raiders had the worst winning percentage in the NFL since 2003. Oakland recently threw out "Just Win Baby" and replaced it with "Just Cut It Loose." With their new mindset, the Raiders are currently 5-4 and in the race for the AFC West division crown. How much does a team motto actually affect the team's play? It's hard to answer that question, but either way, the motto swap seems to have worked. The switch reportedly was inspired because many of the Raiders ...