TheJetsStream Manish Mehta Raiders WR coach SanJay Lal interviewed with the Jets yesterday, per source. I was told that Jets liked him a lot. #nyj 1 hour ago
This is good and all, but we definitely need to upgrade our #2 receiver. We need to bring back Braylon.
We need Plax back too. Even though he wasn't what he was, he's still an RZ threat and MS needs the continuity in WRs. Holmes, Plax, Edwards, Kerley, Turner, Blackmon (wishful). Cumberland, Keller, Baker
Blackmon is beyond wishful... Its crazy. It wont happen, he wont make it past jax. He’s a top five pick.
i guess they did like him then from the raiders website: Sanjay Lal is in his fifth season with The Oakland Raiders, the third in his present capacity coaching wide receivers for the Silver and Black. Lal joined the Raiders in 2007 working with the wide receivers and operating as the offensive quality control assistant. In 2009, Lal tutored Darrius Heyward-Bey and Louis Murphy, the first rookie tandem to start at WR in the NFL since 2000. Before joining the Raiders, Lal spent three seasons as an offensive assistant-quarterbacks coach at Cal, following one season on the football staff at St. Mary’s College as quarterbacks and strength, speed and conditioning coach. The Bears played in bowl games in each of Lal’s seasons at Cal and captured a share of the school’s first Pac-10 title (tied with USC) in 2006. He was the wide receivers coach at Los Medanos College (2003) and was passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach at Miramonte High (1996-02) when the school won five North Coast Section Championships and one state title, including a 13-0 record in 2001. Lal played wide receiver at the University of Washington and was a Husky Hall of Fame selection. He was on the Huskies 1992 National Championship team and a member of two Rose Bowl teams. Before transferring to Washington, he was a member of the 1989 UCLA Cotton Bowl Championship team. Lal signed as a free agent with the St. Louis Rams in 1998 and was with the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe in 1999. Good old NFL Europe edit: Apparently he was born in London, England - sweet edit 2: christ wikipedia is fast - it alredy has him listed as being at the Jets!
Then we need to get rid of Holmes, somehow, someway. If we go into next season with him as our #1, we're doomed.
hmm just did a bit of googling of this guy - it does seem he was the raiders version of Schotty as far as their fans were concerned (not that fans know anything as we all know) - he had pretty much the lowest approval ratings of any of the raiders coaching staff - how much of it was him and how much was the talent he had to work with who knows.