When you're faced with climbing out of a chasm dug by years of questionable personnel decisions, the hole just gets deeper as you try to figure out a way to extricate yourself from a salary cap mess. You finally pop clean through to the other side of the earth since the former excavators traded most of your draft picks away. The closest thing to a light at the end of the tunnel may be sifting through the free-agency equivalent of the bargain bin as you try to plug holes.That's the unenviable position that the Oakland Raiders find themselves in, and ...
Much of the NFL news right now is revolving around Peyton Manning and the New Orleans Saints.From a single franchise perspective, the Oakland Raiders, despite having just two draft picks, have some interesting news.That said, here's the latest involving the Silver and Black. Michael HuffIn an article by Paul Gutierrez of CSN Bay Area, the Raiders may end up retaining safety Michael Huff:[Dennis] Allen said last week at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. "The one thing I do know about Michael Huff is he's an extremely good athlete and he has skills athletically of a corner, and so that obviously would be ...
The trade for Carson Palmer didn't play out exactly as the Raiders had hoped in 2011, as the team failed to make the playoffs for the ninth consecutive year.However, 2012 is the dawn of a new day for both Palmer and the Raiders. Let's take a look at five reasons why the deal for Palmer will pay off handsomely for Oakland in 2012...Begin Slideshow
Most consider the Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels to be the front runners for the AL West crown, but the Oakland Athletics have a shot too. Impossible you say? The great Muhammad Ali once said: "Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." Sure, winning the AL West is going to be a difficult task. Improbable, maybe. Impossible, no. Here are seven reasons Oakland has the makeup to shock the baseball world and win the AL West.Begin Slideshow
I have written many articles about Terrelle Pryor since the late Al Davis drafted him in the third round of the NFL supplemental draft. Why? Because when you look at our quarterback position, it is hard not to. When the Raiders acquired Carson Palmer it seemed like another band-aid for the bullet wound that is the quarterback position. Palmer understandably struggled after sitting on the couch for half the season, but began to get some chemistry with his teammates toward the end. Now it is a foregone conclusion that he is the automatic starter in 2012. If not because he ...
According to an article in the New York Daily News, Major League Baseball is ready to announce that the much-ballyhooed San Jose territory, coveted by the Oakland A’s, belongs to the San Francisco Giants.On Saturday, Daily News columnist Bill Madden wrote that the ruling is all but finalized.A’s owner Lew Wolff has grown increasingly impatient with baseball commissioner Bud Selig’s lollygagging in making a ruling on the issue.Madden said that there are basically two reasons why Selig is procrastinating: The Giants’ territorial rights to San Jose are part of the MLB constitution as a result of former A’s owner, Levi-Strauss heir Wally ...
Growing up, Darren McFadden has probably heard of the one they call Bo Jackson a few times. It's hard to image a life of football without mentioning one of the biggest what ifs in NFL history. Bo Jackson was one of the most graceful runners the league has ever seen. Enough power to knock through the likes of Brian Bosworth, but fast enough to burn the field with a 4.12 40-yard dash, unofficially. Bo had it all going for him and could have been the greatest running back to ever step foot on the football field. At Auburn University, Bo was ...
The 2011 season was full of somberness for the Oakland Raiders. They started off the season strong, going 7-4 and looking like they were going to be AFC West champs. The entire league and all of its analysts started calling the Raiders the team of the AFC West to beat, and with five games left the Raiders might break the 10 win season, their first since 2002 when they went to the Superbowl.Unfortunately for Raider Nation, they lost four of the last five games and missed the playoffs again. The Raiders have been making the right moves during the offseason ...
Major League Baseball definitely did not disappoint this year when it comes to buzz in the media. As fantasy owners, you may find yourselves in a familiar place; deciding what to make of these relatively over-hyped foreign prospects.Most of the attention as been focused on Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers and Yoenis Cespedes of the Oakland Athletics.Although I won't get into Yu Darvish in this article, I will say that he seems to be a much better fit than the likes of Daisuke Matsuzaka was just a few years ago. I will however, explain to why you may be ...
A Sensible Proposal for the 21st CenturyIt was only a few days ago that the franchise that formerly employed Reggie McKenzie—that of the Green Bay Packers—completed the sale of more than 268,000 shares. If you do the math, you will see that this strategy raised roughly $67 million dollars for the Green Bay Packers.Since the Oakland Raiders are definitely transitioning to a winning model, doesn't it make sense to replicate all or most of the positive attributes of the ownership structure of the Green Bay Packers. Other examples of "studying a winner" are exercised during the training stages of ...