The former No. 1 pick, and perhaps the No. 1 all-time bust, is trying to return to football. That's right, JaMarcus Russell is going to give his infamous career one last chance in the NFL (via ESPN). This move shows good ambition for the former LSU star. He has had a very rough time since his release from the Oakland Raiders, which happened on May 6th, 2010, only three years since being the first player taken in the 2007 NFL Draft. Russell was arrested on July 5th, 2010 for possession of codeine syrup, the same substance he tested positive for after the 2007 ...
Tony Sparano will once again land on his feet. He has been hired by the Oakland Raiders to be the team's assistant head coach and offensive line coach.The news of the hire was first reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter on Twitter:
The Oakland Raiders have hired former Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano as their assistant head coach/offensive line.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 23, 2013
Sparano was recently fired as offensive coordinator of the New York Jets. He ran an offense that featured the shuffling of quarterbacks Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow and Greg McElroy and was ultimately unsuccessful. New York's offense finished the ...
As the Oakland Raiders’ new regime continues its rebuild of the franchise, the 2013 NFL draft is going to play a very significant role in which. For the first time in what now seems like quite a long time, the Raiders have a first-round pick, and will select third overall. While teams always want to take the best player available, avoiding reaching to fill a need, the Raiders would ideally come out of the draft having helped what are some weaknesses on the roster. Here is the Oakland Raiders wish list for the 2013 NFL draft.Begin Slideshow
Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie said on Tuesday that Terrelle Pryor will get a shot at competing for the starting quarterback job in 2013, according to Alex Marvez of SiriusXM NFL Radio.Marvez tweeted:
#Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie just told us on @siriusxmnfl that Terrelle Pryor will have chance to compete for starting job in 2013— Alex Marvez (@alexmarvez) January 23, 2013
Veteran quarterback Carson Palmer started for the Raiders in 2012, but the results weren't exactly inspiring. Palmer averaged 7.1 yards per pass attempt (15th in the NFL among qualifying quarterbacks) and he reached double digits in interceptions (14) for ...
There are two things that strike me as interesting about the claims of Oakland Raider legend Tim Brown that former Raider head coach Bill Callahan sabotaged Super Bowl XXXVII against Jon Gruden and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers: One is that the media is just now making this a story. Savvy Raider fans have known that this has been Brown's assertion for the better part of a decade.Need proof? Here is Brown at a Raider Mecca function at the team's headquarters in Alameda, California in 2008. This isn't a new claim, nor has it deviated one iota since Brown first spoke ...
There is no way an NFL head coach would sabotage his team in a Super Bowl. Right?Well, according to legendary wide receiver Tim Brown, Oakland Raiders head coach Bill Callahan sabotaged his team by changing the game plan on the Friday prior to Super Bowl XXXVII, a game in which Oakland ultimately lost 48-21 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When it comes to the Oakland Raiders, anything is possible. Nothing that apparently occurred during the Al Davis era should be completely ruled out, that's for sure. After the video of Brown's rather adamant stance on this controversial topic began to circulate, obviously, ...
When the Oakland Raiders hired former-Jacksonville quarterbacks coach Greg Olson to be their new offensive coordinator, there was a lot of surprise. Olson came seemingly out of nowhere among the likes of seemingly stronger candidates Mike Martz, Norv Turner and Marc Trestman and got the job.Olson, now with the rest of the Raiders coaching staff in Alabama for the Senior Bowl, spoke with the media for the first time since he was hired.To read the full interview, click the link above. The highlight of Olson's interview was mentioning the traditional Raiders' offenses of the past with the Al Davis style of play. ...
Former Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders great Tim Brown has a staggeringly impressive resume.He played for 17 years in the NFL after a career at Notre Dame in which he earned the 1987 Heisman Trophy, and secured his place as one of the all-time great Raiders while playing the game in an explosive, consistent and classy fashion for his entire storied career.Brown spent 16 of those years wearing the silver and black, making the Pro Bowl nine times, and was named to the NFL 1990's All-Decade team. He is a finalist for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, ...
Tim Brown earned the nickname "Mr. Raider," for being the best player on the Oakland Raiders for nearly his entire career. It wasn’t until the end of his career that the Raiders were any good after Jon Gruden took over as the head coach. Oakland would eventually make a trip to the Super Bowl under Bill Callahan at the end of the 2002 season. Brown is one of the finalists to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and suggested in an interview Saturday with SiriusXM radio (via NFL.com) that Callahan sabotaged the Raiders by changing the game plan ...
Ah yes, another mock draft. For those of you who haven't tired of the early opinions of all the prognosticators of the world guessing on a topic that won't happen until April, welcome!For the rest of you, welcome! It's not like you're going to get much else outside of Baltimore and San Francisco.Anyway, I try to look at this not from anyone else's perspective. Meaning, I see guys who fit in Oakland that your Mel Kiper's, Mike Mayock's and other "experts" simply will not.Value is a fluid term in today's NFL, where guys who seemed to go too high (i.e. ...