Take it for what you will, but this interview is the bestest thing ever. http://www.ibabuzz.com/raidersblog/2009/05/18/from-hall-of-fame-to-hall-of-shame/ Pay close attention to the part about Tom Cable.
Raiders fans who defend it are hysterical... sadly its 85% of them. At least Lions fans hate their owner and want better. I have more respect for them.
For those who can't see the links, etc, here's the part. Deangelo Hall is speaking: This is absolute genius. This is worse than the inmates running the asylum...the inmate OWNS the asylum. Thanks for finding this, FGF.
Lets see Raiders traded a second and six rounder for deangelo hall and paid him alot of money to play in their man to man defense. LEt see deangelo, you couldn't survive in the Raiders system, playing in your face man to man defense. You were more comfortable plaing off the WR(sorry son thats not the Raiders system) Hey Deangelo , How about you say I didn't get the job done and was ill suited to play in this scheme. Than try to blame your failures on AL davis. See Eddie Royal who you made look like a superstar and who dissapeared in the second matchup(chris johnson) As it turns out , Raiders had a Cb already on their roster Chris johnson 6'1 200 sub 4.3 who was a great fit for the Raiders man to man defense. Chris Johnson was everything Deangelo hall was suppose to be. It didn't quite work out the way Raiders envision it, but Raiders got the same results in the end.
These IS another BS satory like the Tim Brown. Tim Brown wanted a job in raiders front office, Al davis didn't give one so lets play the race card. Again with AL Davis track record its laughable that anyone would accuse him of that. Tim Brown back pedaling! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nbcbayarea.com/sports/foo...vis-Story.html Tim Brown was unstoppable on the Raiders' offense for 16 seasons, but Thursday he was playing defense. Last week, Brown made the surprising claim in an interview still available on line with 680 The Fan in Atlanta that that Raider owner Al Davis "hated African-American athletes from Notre Dame". But today he backtracked on that statement with the kind of speed that would make the Raiders want to draft a guy sixth overall. Brown's remark was part of a longer anecdote about his first time meeting Al Davis, as a new Raider in the late 1980's. "Meeting Al (Davis) was pretty unique," Brown said in the interview. "I found out five or ten minutes after my first practice there that he hated African-American athletes from Notre Dame. And they literally told me that. They literally told me that because we’re known for using our education more than our athletic ability that he thought that I would be one of these guys that would basically take the money and run. I don’t know if that was a ploy to get me amped up, but it certainly worked." The response to this story has left Brown feeling more awkward than a Dirk Nowitzki wedding engangement party. Raider Nation is particularly not pleased, and at the Silver & Black Pride blog they're now referring to Brown as "that alligator short arming on 3rd down no heart Tim Brown." That remark would indicate Brown may have squandered some goodwill. That's why Brown is in damage control mode today, issuing a clarifying statement to SportsRadioInterviews.com. "I would like to give some face value to my recent comments on a radio interview," Brown said in a statement. "If you read the statement carefully, you will see it says “they said”, not Al Davis said. Early in my career , Al Davis and I may have had some contentious years , but none centered around him being racist." First off, this is an offseason, slow-news kind of story. If this were autumn and they had Denver coming in Sunday, or if Janikowski had just got popped bribing a cop during an all-night bender, this tempest wouldn't have made it out of the teapot. Second off, consider Davis' history with African-Americans in his organization. The ever-hilarious Mighty MJD rightly observes on his Shutdown Corner blog that one "should note Al Davis's history in racial hiring practices. He hired Tom Flores, the NFL's first Latino head coach. He hired Art Shell, the first African-American head coach in the NFL's modern era. He drafted Eldridge ****ey, the first African-American quarterback taken in the first round by any NFL or AFL team. Al Davis is pretty well-respected across the board when it comes to making racial progress in the NFL." Third off, consider that Davis actually did draft Brown, despite this alleged bias. And freaking sixth overall at that! The guys at ProFootballTalk.com did actually crunch the numbers, and found the Raiders have in fact not pursued many African-American Fighting Irish in the draft. Since drafting Brown, they've drafted only Raghib Ismail in 1991. But the premise that a franchise avoids players of color only from a certain given university is a difficult negative to prove. After all, the 49ers have drafted only one African-American out of Notre Dame in the last ten NFL Drafts. But no one's insinuating they're racist. Let's just hope this is all a misquote, bad information being given to Brown, or an exaggerated retelling of some old motivational ploy. I'm all in favor of some healthy anti-Notre Dame bias, but this variety would be bizarre and creepy.
Yes they did but it would have hurt alot worse if Chris johnson didn't turn out to be the CB Deangelo hall was suppose to be. So yes it was a costly mistake , but everything worked out in the end for the raiders. Now jets traded two first round picks for Dewayne robertson. There was no good that came out of that. Hurts alot more.
Well thats wasn't as bad as the money Jets gave(left tackle money) to Alan faneca. Who gave up an embarrassing 7.5 sacks in 2008. The worse news is he only going to slip alot more each year. How about the money they gave to 6th pick Vernon Gholston. (seven tackles on special teams) Again everyone in the Nfl has signing they like to forget. Its what you do to fix those mistakes.
Destroy the team ??????????? Hes building a dynasty in the NFl. That really really young offense going to be one of the most explosive offenes in the very near future. Raiders are incredidble young on defense also. We will see if Raiders arrive this year or next but this time the run will be alot longer. Key pieces/core are extremely young. Dallas cowboys Dynasty was built with some very lean Years(so was ravens defense) Who cares in the end when your talking multiple championshiops.
It was 2 firsts and a 5th. There's always a chance with a rookie that it doesn't pan out. Most of your first round picks in the past decade haven't exactly turned out well. You brought in a Vet and dropped him during the same year. That's an epic fail.
