Welcome back, Raider Nation!!! It’s the neeeeeeeeew style!!
First off, I want to wish a VERY special Happy Birthday today to one of the most intelligent,beautiful, sweetest, kindest, loving girls I have ever known in my life.. my beloved Godchild, Ashley. I hope she has absolutely the greatest day imagined and gets everything she asks for. If she doesn’t?
There will be Hell to frackin’ pay!!!!!!!!!
I love you Princess and I hope to see you in the near future…

NATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!! What up, Peeps?!?! I sense you’re all feeling very happy,wide eyed, enthusiastic and possibly thirsty for more after last nights events, right???
Do I really need to have to tell ya’ll again?
IT’S %$$#%^^ PRE-SEASON!

By the way? If you wanted my personal take?? (and I’m sure you do if you’ve read this far)
I have seen better teams come out of Pop Warner Football Leagues.
Ok, possibly too harsh…
but can someone explain to me WHO exactly will be our starting Quarterback this year?
Josh McCown? The guy looked more like a man trying not lose his job more than a man confident with his starting position.YIKES..
Andrew Walter? So all of you that were booing at him last year like he was the Iron Sheik pissin’ on the American flag have a sudden case of Amnesia?
AH! Daunte Culpepper, our new hero and proposed Savior! Lord, have his legs grown fatter than Oprah’s after a trip to the Rib house..
Someone might have to wipe the oil slick off his hands..your first chance to impress Oaktown and you cough up the ball like you were giving the damn thing away.
Too late to trade YOU to New England with yo boy who can’t run routes?
JaMarcus Russell? Does an option bonus mean that much to you? This just means you want to take the money if you get cut, fired or traded…. What? do you have a hidden dog fightin’ hobby too? Maybe Pacman Jones might need a Tag Team wrestling partner..

Eh, at least we got to see newcomer Dominic Rhodes run up,around and through people like there was a sale at Niketown. Too bad substance abuse means we won’t be seeing you for the first quarter of the season. Thanks, bub…way to make a first impression.

The Defense? You better check yourselves, homies. It was the ARIZONA CARDINALS.
The team includes…
Matt “overrated” Leinart..(he ain’t no V.Young)
Edgerrin “Shoulda stayed” James..
Kurt ” Glass Fingers” Warner.
not a 1,000 Fitz…a sunken Shipp and a broken line are nothing to write home about.
HEY, so why am I????????
Who knows? Just another bored costumed fan on a Sunday evening.

Have you sensed yet the bitterness that’s consumed the usually positive and loyal Dark Lord of the Sith?
I hope so.
It might take a while before a Pre-season win actually means something to yours truly.
I mean…look what happen last year…
lastyearlastyear (play echo sound effect now)

Here’s to progression and individual achievement. If I didn’t call out your name? You’re probably getting the thumbs up …
but you probably could of done a hell of a lot better..
Make it so, player..
or get played out.

-DR