Jon Gruden, ESPN color analyst and former head coach of the Oakland Raiders, won’t be returning to the Silver and Black anytime soon. If owner Mark Davis is really going to spend on his next coach, as Adam Schefter of ESPN reported Sunday, he’s already running out of top-dollar candidates.
Gruden’s reluctance to leave the cushy broadcast booth leaves embattled San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh as the Raiders’ only endgame. That’s because spending big money on a mid-level candidate or even a hotshot college coach wouldn’t be money well spent in Oakland.
The Raiders are still two games away from ...
The Oakland Raiders will have many changes coming once again after the 2014 season.
Which head coach are the Raiders targeting if they don't hire Jim Harbaugh? Will general manger Reggie McKenzie be fired after the season?
Watch as Adam Lefkoe and Scott Bair of CSN Bay Area discuss the Raiders' future in the video above.Read more Oakland Raiders news on BleacherReport.com
The season is winding down, and the Oakland Raiders will play their last home game against a potential playoff-bound Buffalo Bills team.
Oakland has the tough task of dissecting arguably the most underrated defense in the NFL. Buffalo is only allowing 18.1 points per game.
Led by an aggressive and stout defensive line, the Bills were able to prevent both Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers from throwing touchdown passes in consecutive weeks; both quarterbacks were also held under 200 passing yards and intercepted twice.
Fortunately for the Raiders, the Bills offense is still mediocre at best. Buffalo earned a victory against the Green ...
The Oakland A's went into the winter meetings looking like they might contend again in 2015. They came out of the meetings three All-Stars lighter.
Now what?
Last we heard from general manager Billy Beane, he told the media he now plans to spend some of the cash saved in the Brandon Moss, Josh Donaldson and Jeff Samardzija trades. Here's what Beane said in quotes captured by John Hickey of Mercury News:
We've collected young players, and we're going to try to redeploy the extra payroll. We are trying to walk the delicate balance, getting younger and trying to be as good as we can ...
The Oakland Raiders haven't had a winning streak since October of 2012, when they won two games in a row. They had a chance to match that meager accomplishment on Sunday, but they were never able to get going. In a matter of minutes in the third quarter, they went from four points down to 18 down, and they could never muster a comeback. The result was a 31-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
It was a strange game in the sense that even with the Chiefs stretching the lead, it never felt as if they were dominating. It never ...
When the Oakland Raiders take on the Kansas City Chiefs, they'll be looking to do something they haven't done all season: go on a winning streak.
The game begins at 1 p.m. ET and will be played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. It will be televised on CBS.
Derek Carr is coming off of the best game of his young career. He had great individual stats—254 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions while completing 78.6 percent of his passes—but perhaps even more impressive is that the offense controlled the ball against the San Francisco 49ers for almost 33 minutes. It's going ...
Quarterback Derek Carr, outside linebacker Khalil Mack and left guard Gabe Jackson have highlighted the Oakland Raiders’ outstanding rookie class in 2014, but cornerback TJ Carrie is the unheralded star of the group.
In many ways, the seventh-rounder out of Ohio University has outshone last year’s first-round pick, D.J. Hayden.
Both of Oakland’s young cornerbacks are playing well, but it’s rare for a rookie to do so—especially a seventh-round pick. So fear not, Raider Nation, because that says more good about Carrie than bad about Hayden.
Outside of quarterback, cornerback is perhaps the most difficult transition from the college game, so Carrie’s play is ...
The Oakland Raiders are coming off of what was by far their most impressive game of the season. It really was a dominant performance. The question now is whether the team can repeat it.
The offense had a breakout game, and it just might have signaled that the unit finally turned the corner. At times, it has shown that it has potential, but it could never sustain a high level of play.
But Derek Carr looked like the quarterback the Raiders thought they were getting when they drafted him. Equally important, Mychal Rivera and Marcel Reece showed that when given the opportunity, they ...
The Oakland Athletics have had an interesting offseason to say the least—one extremely difficult to grade.
If you look at it from the perspective that the A's were contenders and are retooling to remain as contenders in 2015, then the grade is an F. They downgraded at third base, traded their starting first baseman and one of their top starting pitchers and did not sign a proven shortstop.
If they couldn't get it done with Josh Donaldson, Brandon Moss, Jeff Samardzija and Jon Lester (not to mention Yoenis Cespedes before him), then they're not going to get it done with Brett Lawrie, ...
The Oakland Raiders are 2-11 in 2014, but there is a reason to be hopeful for the future.Should the Raiders target Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft? Can the Raiders build around quarterback Derek Carr?Watch as Stephen Nelson and Scott Bair of CSN Bay Area discuss potential Raiders draft picks in the video above. Read more Oakland Raiders news on BleacherReport.com