Archive for the ‘Oakland Raiders’ Category
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The NFL is bigger and more popular than ever.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean the league is better.
There appears to be a large number of just awful teams this season. I’m talking absolutely putrid. Like teams you know are going to lose all week long.
My roommate relayed a conversation he had ...
Posted in Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, NFL, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, Washington Redskins | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
1. I hate Brett Favre. I used to have an adversarial respect for him, being a Bears fan and all, but now this is just getting ridiculous. Talk about an attention whore. Oh, and Jay Glazer just bodyslammed the ESPN weasel trio of Schefter-Mortensen-Clayton at the same time, by not ...
Posted in Brett Favre, Brian Roberts, Gina Carano, Landon Donovan, Michael Vick, Oakland Raiders, TheBaker's Dozen, Tim Cable | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Four coaches in four years.
Four quarterbacks in four years.
An average of just under four wins a season during that four-year stretch.
That's not the type of forward movement Al Davis and Oakland Raiders fans are looking for.
Davis used to make the Raiders relevant. Now, he's made them inconsequential. But it's not ...
Posted in Darren McFadden, JaMarcus Russell, NFL, Nnamdi Asomugha, Oakland Raiders, TheBaker's NFL Preview | No Comments »
Monday, May 11th, 2009
When the Oakland Raiders selected wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey with the No. 7 pick in the NFL Draft, pretty much everybody on the planet's reaction was: What the f*ck? Heyward-Bey was listed as a late first round pick by virutally everyone, and with Michael Crabtree still on the board, no ...
Posted in Darrius Heyward-Bey, Mike Mitchell, NFL, NFL Draft, Oakland Raiders | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 5th, 2009
After what was arguably the most interesting final Sunday in NFL history -- The Big Lead at least had a premonition of this awesomeness, but it played out far wackier than any of us could have anticipated -- and a fairly decent Wild Card weekend, we're down the final eight playoff contestants. ...
Posted in Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre, Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, NFL, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Wade Phillips, Washington Redskins | 1 Comment »