The Oakland Raiders have put together some pretty impressive offenses over the last 50 years. Hall of Fame players, crazy personalities and consummate professionals have donned the Silver & Black.
All Raider fans have their favorites for various reasons. I will be listing my favorites based on specific criteria. Production, longevity and character.
If a player was good for only one or two seasons, he won't make this list. If he was the "typical Raider", but wasn't very productive, he won't make the list either.
I won't just be naming one player at any position. I'll be creating an actual, full offensive ...
There have been consistent rumors about Oakland trading for Donovan McNabb with a move including Asante Samuel from the Eagles and Nnamdi Asomugha from the Raiders. The rumor apparently comes from a source in the Eagles organization.
The Raiders are hotly rumored to be the team most interested in McNabb, as well as the team that he least wants to play for.
There are good arguments on both sides as to whether the McNabb/Samuel for Asomugha trade would be beneficial for the Raiders, but the fact that the rumors persist must give some credence to the fact that there have been ...
Going into spring training, the Oakland Athletics had a highly touted battle for the fifth rotation spot between Trevor Cahill, Gio Gonzalez, and Vin Mazzaro. Truth be told, I'm not sure how many people ever considered it a three-man race.
Cahill had just completed a full year at the major league level, Gonzalez has shown he has nothing left to prove in Triple-A, and all Mazzaro has done at the big league level is hurl two great scoreless starts in 2009 and then fall back to Earth... and then some... to the tune of a 5.32 ERA in 91.1 big ...
The once-successful Raiders franchise has been on a dismal downturn for the past seven seasons, accumulating a record of 29-83 (.259). For a while now, they have been considered a laughing stock in the NFL, and have been gradually losing their fan base.
You can’t really blame them though; there hasn’t been much to cheer about in Oakland recently. The organization continues to make poor decisions, both, on the field and in the front office, and has shown scarce signs of improvement.
However, I am confident that they can turn things around and get headed in the right direction if they ...
The latest rumor has Donovan McNabb going to the Raiders for a second round pick and/or another player. This makes too much sense for it not to happen.
Al Davis is not getting any younger, folks. His future is now. To think he would be worried about whether he can re-sign McNabb or what ramifications a trade would have on the team down the road would be foolish.
Also, anyone concerned about McNabb's age hasn't watched much football over the last few years. One could argue, based on the numbers put up by quarterbacks this decade, that McNabb is just entering his ...
In the famous words of former U.S. President, George W. Bush, "There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."
Well Al Davis is at it again. Just when Raider Nation is up to it's neck in Bruce Gradkowski versus JaMarcus Russell debates, Davis throws in a wild card. Donovan McNabb is on Mr. Davis' radar, and Davis doesn't care if McNabb wants to come to Oakland or not.
The sneaky Davis is ready to win now, and only he knows how not to do ...
We're well into the offseason, and the Oakland Raiders were surprisingly on the sidelines for the majority of the unrestricted free agency signing period—which is abstruse.
The team could simply be working through salary cap constraints; the restricted free agent market hasn't begun yet. The Raiders did test the waters and recently traded one of their two third-round picks —No. 85 overall acquired from New England in the Derrick Burgess trade—to the Cleveland Browns for linebacker Kamerion Wimbley. This is a good move by the Raiders— one that is a low-risk, high-reward choice. Wimbley is the ...
This offseason has been quiet an entertaining one for NFL fans. Since the beginning of the free agency period, plenty of trades and signings have occurred around the league.
The talk of the past week has been Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who the Eagles have put out on the market for all teams interested.
Despite the number of offers Philadelphia has received, the likely candidate is the Oakland Raiders.
Yes, everyone, the Oakland Raiders are the team to beat for McNabb's services. Sources say Oakland has all the ingredients for a trade in place.
Up to this point, the Eagles have said the ...
Heading into this season, we can be sure of at least one thing:
JaMarcus Russell is in the shape of his life and has been training in Phoenix, AZ, every day up until OTAs started. He's totally different from last year and lost quite a bit of weight. He is having special meals brought in and has a former Raider monitoring his progress.
Or at least according to Willie Brown.
Oh wait sorry... according to Tim Kawakami who has an "alleged source" close to the Raiders JaMarcus weighed in at 271 at OTAs.
Wait wait wait... that can't be right...because, according to ESPN analyst Adam Schefter, Jamarcus ...
Well, I guess I was wrong.
After pitcher Chad Gaudin was released by the New York Yankees in the middle of last week, I was pretty sure he would sign with either the New York Mets or Los Angeles Dodgers.
Just like I thought the Oakland A’s wouldn’t sign Ben Sheets, I didn’t think they would sign Gaudin either. But they did.
According to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com , the A’s have signed Gaudin to a major league contract. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed yet.
With the A’s’ rotation essentially set with Sheets, Brett Anderson, Dallas Braden, Trevor Cahill, and ...