Why would he want to go to Oakland? I'd be heartbroken going from a perennial winning franchise to the perennial laughingstock of the NFL.
Yet YOU don't. Fascinating, really. It really is. HAHAHAHA, 'hypocrite'! Hypocrite?! HAHAHAHA. Rich, and again, whatever, ace.
You're right. I shouldn't have responded to your initial shot. Please end it here or bring it into the proper forum, where I'll happily join you.
If you'd stop parading yourself around when it suits, it wouldn't make me mad. Just stop being a phony. It works much better that way.
For the fifth time, just humor me and post off-topic material in the proper forum. Please just do that much. Post whatever you want about me, just not here.
First There is no way R Seymour Not playing for the Raiders in 2010. Raiders have way over the amount it would cost to sign Seymour(franchise tag) in dead cap money they are eating with there freeagent signing they had in 2008. (K Harris, Gibril Wilson, Deangelo Hall etc) All that goes off the books and they give him his money. Second even if the Raiders were really bad there is no way the Patriots would get a top five pick in 2011. Easy you can bet in 2010 draft Raiders will trade a second round pick for a 2011 number 1 pick or do something to get anothyer number 1 pick for 2011 . So they have two number 1. Patriots are going to get a number 1 pick somewhere in the 20's when its all said and done.
Do you ever have any clue what you are talking about? Raiders traded THEIR 2011 #1 pick, which is likely to be a top 5 pick if not the top pick in the entire draft. To make matters worse they traded that pick for a guy that wants no part of playing for the circus that is the Oakland Raiders.
He can and maybe will sit out the first 10 games. That way he keeps the vested year. Then he will show up and half ass play the last 6 games which nobody will care about because the Raiders will have been long ago eliminated. Then he will walk away. Maybe back to NE to sign a new deal, with your #1 pick in his back pocket. Did you see what Rodney Harrison had to say about your beloved Raiders? "Retired safety Rodney Harrison told PFT Monday night that he has spoken to his former Patriots teammate and close friend Richard Seymour about the deal that sent Seymour to Oakland. And? "He's not thrilled," said Harrison, now an analyst for NBC's Football Night in America. "Who would be thrilled to go to the Oakland Raiders? Maybe somebody who's happy to just get a chance but not a guy like Richard Seymour, a five-time Pro Bowler. For a veteran player to go to Oakland at this juncture it's just difficult. "Put yourself in his position," Harrison added. "He's going from a first-class organization to one of the worst in the NFL. You have the head coach fighting the assistant coaches, the owner involved in the day-to-day operations, guys who don't believe in the quarterback. . . . Tom Brady to JaMarcus Russell? Come on. Is that something to look forward to? Why would he be excited?" Asked if Seymour would report to the Raiders, Harrison said, "I don't know that. Only Richard knows that. But I wouldn't go to Oakland. There's no way in the world I would go to Oakland. The only way I would report is if they promised they wouldn't franchise me after this year." Seymour, who turns 30 in October, is due to become a free agent in March 2010. Harrison acknowledged the sound business sense the deal made for both teams involved. "It's a great deal for the Raiders," he said. "Combine Richard with Tommy Kelly on the defensive line, you have [Nnamdi] Asomugha in the secondary, there's some talent there and you've brought in a player who knows how to win and be a professional. "And you look at the move made by [Patriots head coach Bill] Belichick, and you can see him saying, 'I'd rather get rid of a guy before the last year of his contract.' He knows the Raiders will stink so it's a top-10 pick in return for a guy who's gonna be 30. You know what? That's the business. "The trade off is, guys get to win championships and make a lot of money, but at the end, it's business. I knew that and instead of my getting whacked [by New England], I whacked myself. If you make money and you're older, it's inevitable you're gonna get whacked." http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/09/07/harrison-seymours-not-thrilled-with-deal-to-raiders/
This is good for us. It may well be a crappy deal for the Raiders but Seymour is one of the top 5 lineman in the NFL right now. This weakens the Pats right now substantially. There is no guarantee they will get a player near as good as him to replace what he has meant to the Pats for all of these years. I love that he's gone. If they replace him with Peppers that's another story all together.
In the past 3 seasons: Jenkins, 48 games Seymour, 40 games http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4453249 .... http://www.boston.com/sports/footba...ported_to_raiders_issues_with_patriots_cited/
This was a pretty decent discussion, until about page six then it started to get ruined by a certain fake poster.
