AGRI Biz

Great men often make decisions that are controversial. They see farther and deeper. Al Davis is described by many as a risk-taker. There is nothing wrong with that description. Davis just needs someone around him who knows risk analysis, and risk management. Apparently, some of those around him are lacking those skills. The ability to take risks, and push performance to a phenomenal level is a gift that is probably innate. Once in Davis' ...

On Oct. 4, 2008, the New York Daily News reported this quote: "Al Davis won't be happy unless John Madden is his coach and Daryle Lamonica is throwing bombs to Warren Wells and Fred Biletnikoff and they can all bring back the glory days of the Raiders. "That's when the Raiders built their mystique, when "Commitment to Excellence" had a little bite to it..." This article was published during the time Davis fired ...

Al Davis made a presentation at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in 2006. The win-loss record for the Oakland Raiders in that same year was four wins, and 12 losses. How do you think Davis feels now, having been given one of the highest honors in professional football (he was enshrined in 1992), yet his team had the worst win-loss record in a seven-year period? We look back, using hindsight. Here ...

Let's just say that being in the right place, at the right time is a powerful, positive factor in the careers of some people. Have you wondered if factors other than performance helped or hindered the careers of quarterbacks who were the chosen ones of past and present? I wonder. And, when I wonder, I do research. A historian who happens to be the relative of the late Eldridge Dickey, a man ...