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For any fan of the Raiders, history serves as a good teacher on experience. Oakland, and for a short while in LA has had a hard time home-growing their own quarterbacks. With the lone exception of Ken Stabler and Tom Flores, the Raiders have always found gold or silver in their hunts with other teams. From the Bills, the Raiders found Daryle Lamonica. With the Patriots and the 49ers giving up, ...

OK, we've looked at one potential option, with the Raiders moving up. The ideas abound, from us going into the top three, swapping off a key player in the secondary and hoping that everything turns out well. The risk, is that opposing teams would eat us alive in the passing game and the running game isn't scared of one extra lineman. The second idea, is what about the Raiders trading down? Oakland owns the ...

Al Davis, when he wants to be a tactical genius, can be really, really good. When he wants to be as mean as a junkyard dog, he can fit that personality as well. It has been said that when you're a friend of Al Davis, he will go out of his way for you...and if you have an enemy in Al Davis, he will do everything in his power to remove you—from ...

Two of the greatest quarterbacks the Raiders had in their early history, can serve as a good lesson for today's team: Daryle Lamonica and Ken Stabler. Daryle Lamonica, for his numbers, wasn't well-received on arrival in the Bay Area. Fans had warmed up to Tom Flores and aside from injuries, looked like the future for the team. Al Davis, who was still working behind the scenes, wanted to "stretch the field," in ...

Oh, what might have been. Oakland today made the news pretty clear that, when the Raiders had signed Javon Walker for Randy Moss-like money, they were hoping more than predicting good things. Javon, who had decent seasons in Green Bay and Denver before his personal demons unraveled his life, was supposed to be our go-to guy in Oakland. Ronald Curry was playing out the string and Jerry Porter was an afterthought. Javon ...

It is one of those choices, that isn't easy for anyone. The Chargers had to let LT go, when all the player had done was spend nine years trying to reach the Super Bowl. For the Raiders, today was Justin's turn. For the recap, Justin Fargas came to Oakland from USC, not exactly Marcus Allen, but not exactly Nick Bell, either. Fargas, drafted in the third round of the 2003 draft, did not ...

For the players, coaches, owners and agents out there, it had to feel like the holiday season, all over again. The salary cap was off and over 500 playersùsome with strings, and some free for the takingùwent on the market to kick off the free agency period. Some shocks were announced, like Jake Delhomme, ditched after a poor season. The Jets picked up a cornerback, and the Raider Nation can breathe easier ...

And no, no one in their right mind would say this to his face. Al Davis never learns a lesson, from anyone...he simply adapts things to "his" point of view. Recently an article had appeared, mentioning the Raiders were giving up on the stopwatch, long thought of Al Davis' primary tool for judging talent for the Raiders. Looking at past mistakes, ranging from Darrius Heyward-Bey to Carlos Francis, speed is one thing that ...

When times were simpler, maybe a bit foolish, things seemed a lot simpler. For the Raiders, a player here and things would be fine. A lineman goes down hurt? Just plug in another player. Marcus Allen is down? Plug in Bo Jackson. And so on and so forth. In this day and age, however it is no longer a simple game where you can just drop in one player and expect things to run ...

Well, call it a case of the repeats. Last year, Oakland was looking at the possibility of watching both Shane Lechler and Nnamdi Asomugha walking away from Oakland for more money. Then Al Davis, ever the rich sort, dropped two contracts that left the NFL Network heads spinning. Fast forward to this season, and you discover that Seabass, AKA Sebastian Janikowski, inked out the exact same deal that Shane locked up last year. Not ...