Raiders OK with Russell, still mad at Gannon

By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 5:12 pm in Oakland Raiders.

For the record, the Raiders aren’t overly concerned with the Las Vegas excursion by JaMarcus Russell, saying he was in Sin City accompanied by someone with the club, and have no intention of taking Rich Gannon up on his offer to help the team reverse the tide of seven consecutive losing seasons.

Steve Corkran followed up on both issues today with senior executive John Hererra, who confirmed, “JaMarcus was in Las Vegas, and he was there with a (Raiders staff member). He was there for a legitimate reason.”

As for Gannon, Herrera’s company line made it clear the former MVP is persona non grata in Alameda.

“It’s Rich that needs the help,” Herrera said. “When he goes on a radio show offering Mr. Davis help, Tom Cable help, the Raiders help, maybe it’s Rich that needs the help.”

Herrera also said, “What does Rich Gannon think he has to offer that Paul Hackett can’t contribute, when he himself said Paul Hackett is the best quarterbacks coach that he ever had?”

The Raiders have also signed practice squad player to a future’s contract, tying him to the Raiders into next season. Wide receiver Paul Hubbard, center Tim Mattran, quarterback Jeff Otis and guard Brandon Robb were not retained.

In other news, according to Raiders.com, linebacker Sam Williams is the team’s nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year award, given for service to the community.

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Yes the Rams were never blown out last year.

They may try hard, but that roster is talentless. They’ve had the #2, #2, and now the #1 pick, the last 3 years.

Both #2 picks the last few years are doing worse than D-Mac and DHB. Ownership is trying to sell.

The Rams are a mess bro. That’s all I’m saying.
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Bo Schembechler Jackson Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 10:58 am
As a ND fan, I was not an advocate of Brady Quinn, so please do not think that the following statement is due to my allegence to ND:

I wish we could find a way to draft Jimmy Clausen…the kid is going to be a great QB.

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This is more hooey from the guy who wanted THAT BUST DMAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sad misplaced Michigan fan anger, that is what this is lol
RaiderD

didnt STL get shutout by the 49ers?
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New Englandraider,

Toney Gaffney? yeah, I think he was on the pre-season roster for the Lakers…why, did we sign him or something?
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Tony…sorry
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Dakota,

Smith struggled through 5 games and was out with a bruised coconut. Heard Clayton on ESPN talk about worries it might be career-ending.

And he was the #2 pick, 5 slots ahead of DHB.

Yes, bigger flop.
new englandraider

DAKOTA
ur correct. he was final cut. played at umass. outstanding defensive player. leaps out of building, blocks shots and can step out and hit the 3. he is 6-10 i think. anyway he used to date a friend of mine back when they were in college. he signed in israel. talked to my friend 2day. gaffney back here in mass because of foot injury. said lakers have promised him a contract for next season. can u say see u later josh powell
OFL71

The Rams are a mess…well then the Raiders are a fu(kin nightmare that you can’t wake up from.
They’re going in the right direction while Oakland takes one giant backwards leap after another.
That’s all I’m saying.
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“Smith also gave up a sack to Lawrence Jackson in that game, and another — to Dwight Freeney — six weeks later against Indianapolis.

But there were plenty of high spots. In Game 2, against Washington, a block by Smith sealed the edge on a 58-yard run by Jackson — his longest gain of the year. The play set up the Rams’ first touchdown of the season and gave them their first lead of the season.

In the first Arizona game, on Nov. 22, blocks by Smith and tight end Randy McMichael helped spring Jackson on a 48-yard run that set up a Rams field goal.

The gain put Jackson over 1,000 yards for a franchise-record fifth consecutive season.”
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Smith was getting it going…was DHB ever said to be getting it going? I don’t think so…

And according to his HC, they are moving forward as if Smith will be fine for next season.

I’d trade DHB for Smith in a heartbeat…at least Smith has a chance to be a good player…DHB needs a hand transplant.
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Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Bo Schembechler Jackson Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 10:58 am
As a ND fan, I was not an advocate of Brady Quinn, so please do not think that the following statement is due to my allegence to ND:

I wish we could find a way to draft Jimmy Clausen…the kid is going to be a great QB.

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This is more hooey from the guy who wanted THAT BUST DMAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sad misplaced Michigan fan anger, that is what this is lol

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LMAO. Misplaced? Didn’t we destroy Notre Dame this year with a last second touchdown pass?
Richochet

Why all the hoopla over Herrera.
Even he admits he’s a puppet.
Nothing he EVER says is his opinion. He is Al’s lapdog, nothing more.

Don’t shoot the messenger.
go after the source.
OFL71

Bigger flop…c’mon watchu smokin?
DHB is a bust,BOOK IT!
No hands,no smarts,no desire.
Straightline speed and that’s it,and that doesn’t mean sh*t in the NFL.
Crabtree passed DHBs season stats in ONE GAME!
Bigger flop my a$$.
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Bo Schembechler Jackson Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:17 am

LMAO. Misplaced? Didn’t we destroy Notre Dame this year with a last second touchdown pass?
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Our gimmicky spread offense coach is better than yours!!!! neener neener neeeeeener
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Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:16 am

Smith was getting it going…was DHB ever said to be getting it going? I don’t think so…

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Well he did catch a TD in his last game he played in, lol. That should be about as good as “sealing the edge”.

And no compensation for one being the #2 pick vs. #7?
new englandraider

ofl71
maybe i smoke too much hippie lettuce. i think we are going to get a lot better next season. between, murphy shaunessy, and mitchell this yrs draft, to go along with nnamdi, huff, seymour (will be franchised), scott, chaz, t branch. man we got some talent. we really do. you seen what we can to with decent qb play. chaz being hurt killed us. i think he and murphy could be one helluva tandem. with zmill, maybe dmac and bush. we will have some weapons man. unless shaunessy and murphy regress. which i doubt. murphy improved a lot as season went on. and as i said yesterday, combine his drops with all the jruss short hops.. dude maybe could’ve had 50+ receptions
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Post draft, trade DMAC for the rights to Clausen!
new englandraider

hell, i’d trade dhb for whatever u could pull out of stephen jacksons dread locks
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OFL71,

Explain to me what the Rams have going in the right direction, besides what you have “seen”?

Not trying to be a dyk, but their record has gotten worse the last 3 years. Not raving about the success of the Raiders, but it is a lot easier getting to 9 wins when you had 5 the year before, not 5 over the last three years.
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So with Nnamdi’s $16 million dollar franchise player-like payment in 2010, can Al afford to have the same monster franchise contract for Seymour and pay out for another top draft pick?

Better get that sale of the 10% of the franchise going here pretty soon.
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Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Bo Schembechler Jackson Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:17 am

LMAO. Misplaced? Didn’t we destroy Notre Dame this year with a last second touchdown pass?
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Our gimmicky spread offense coach is better than yours!!!! neener neener neeeeeener

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Oh yeah? Well, the pope is your Al Davis!
new englandraider

the one thing u may…. may not be able to ? about dhb is his effort. poor hands, poor route running, i agree. we’ll see by preseason game 1 if dhb is getting better. did he have more than 2 catches in any preseason game????????? dont think he had more than 2 in reg seas game. and 4 or 5 outta 9 receptions he bobbled 1st
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Bo Schembechler Jackson Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Bo Schembechler Jackson Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:17 am

LMAO. Misplaced? Didn’t we destroy Notre Dame this year with a last second touchdown pass?
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Our gimmicky spread offense coach is better than yours!!!! neener neener neeeeeener

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Oh yeah? Well, the pope is your Al Davis!
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I’ll take that evil looking former hitler youth freak over Al Davis every time!
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I have way more faith in DHB’s future NFL career than Russell’s and maybe even Darren McFadden’s.
RaiderResurrection

I used to be upbeat about the next year. Now I dread next year

I bet most of you guys feel the same. Things don’t look good around Oakland.
Richochet

Only the Raiders, lol…ONLY THE RAIDERS.

Just when you think the bleeding has stopped, or at least had a gob of QuickStop shoved in to plug things up for a bit, the negative press seems to be as strong as ever.

JR misses meeting.
JR seen in Vegas.
Gannon being insulted by the organization when he offers his time…
AND THE SEASON WASN’T EVEN 3 DAYS OVER…

It’s almost as if the offseason rivals the regular season for entertainment..certainly for shock value.

What coach/assts will be fired?
What coach/assts will be hired?
WHO hires the assts?
Who do they “say” hired the assts?
Overhead ProjectorGate II ??
40000 draft predictions based on need.
9 based on “Weirdest scenario”, with 39,988 of the above truly expecting the pick to come from the “9″.
FA..where some “washed up” player will be offered a record contract, under the stipulation he “win one more for the gipper”..even though no one on the team knows what a gipper is…

And that’s just the beginnng

Yep, lol..only the Raiders.
new englandraider

dakota
i think jwalker is gone…. kelly and warren will certainly restructure. hopefully jruss does as well if he’s not cut. isaiah eukanuba(lol) needs to go. too much $$ for a st. wonder if he even had 10 tackles this yr. (doubtful). is huff a rfa or not. whats up with the 5mil thing? and as far as draft, dont be surprised to see us trade out of top 10
bjbrown1968

John Herrera is an @$$hat!! He and Al Davis are the reasons this team has been as bad as it is. Herrera said Gannon “played the worst Super Bowl ever”? Um… John, maybe you should do your homework genius. Certainly he had a bad game, but then again he was missing his starting center, his head coach (Bill Callahan) was ENTIRELY overmatched and outcoached by the guy who built that Raider team and was then unceremoniously traded to the Bucs. Hey John, this isn’t golf, you retard (sorry, that’s an offense to all mentally challenged people out there who are far more competant than Herrera). In football you actually try to SCORE points. This team hasn’t done that. Bring Gannon in to assist Paul Hackett (who is great but clearly needs help). Get over the fact that you and your team suck (I say this with all the love I have for the Raiders and Raider Nation) and take the help from the best QB this team has had since Jim Plunkett. Or maybe you should go see what Marc Wilson is doing these days. I hear Jeff George still wants to play. Maybe Jeff Hostettler can take us to another Super Bowl… oh wait, he never did that for us either. Herrera, you are a TOOL!!!
Richochet

vegas raider Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I have way more faith in DHB’s future NFL career than Russell’s and maybe even Darren McFadden’s.

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You should have listened to me back in August.

“First time in NFL history that the first three consecutive top ten picks of a team turned out to be total busts”

Would have saved you all the grief.
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Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:27 am

I’ll take that evil looking former hitler youth freak over Al Davis every time!

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You sure?

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r8eray

Gannon rescinds offer to help JaMarcus
Posted by Michael David Smith on January 7, 2010 2:14 PM ET
After former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon said that he’d love to help current Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell, Raiders senior executive John Herrera smacked the offer down by saying, “It’s Rich that needs the help.”

Today Gannon said on his Sirius radio show that he was surprised by the harsh reaction to a sincere offer of assistance, and that he won’t make such an offer again.

“You know, it’s amazing,” Gannon said, per David White of the San Francisco Chronicle. “You try just to reach out to somebody and say something, that maybe you can help a young guy, and you get criticized for it.”

Gannon said he simply viewed Russell as a quarterback who might benefit from talking to someone who’s been there before, but that he won’t try to interfere if he isn’t wanted.

“I just was really looking at a young guy that’s really struggled and just thought that I could reach out to help him out,” Gannon said. “I was just looking to figure out a way to go out there and share with them some of the things that helped me as a player and prepare and get myself ready not only for the season but for games each week. I’ve done it with Aaron Rodgers and I’ve done it with quarterbacks in Tampa and Minnesota. But, hey, trust me, I won’t make that call again.”

And so the quarterback who completed 67.6 percent of his passes for the Raiders in 2002 will not be offering any advice to the quarterback who completed 48.8 percent of his passes for the Raiders in 2009.
CJ Legend 34

I think DHB is going to get the help he needs to have a break out year, next year.

Murphy is going to be a beast for sure next year.

It takes some WRs more time to develop, look at Vernon Davis now. Do you recall how raw and non-explosive this guy was? Now look at him, killing DBs for a big dude.
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Yep, I am sure Bo:

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OFL71

EFFORT!
Something the Raiders are in short supply of.
STL has far less talent than Oakland but plays with much more effort.
And DHB IS a bust cause he was drafted higher than his potential will take him.
Jesus the guy couldn’t even excel at Maryland in a weak ACC,dropped passes,halfassed it alot,I’m not saying anything that wasn’t already known.
new englandraider

vegas
hopefully dhb’s mom makes him work his azz off. dude took a beating from us fans. hopefully he murphy and chaz buddy up over the offseason. if his work ethic is as good as they say it is, he should improve a lot. he certainly cant be any worse, can he. maybe its the russell fast ball that he cant catch. ronald curry was a decent wr b4 jruss. dude couldn’t catch anything last year when he played with jr. i know dhb dropped a nice easy pass from grads… just wondering if there might be a comparison. from what i seen out of curry last year, it looked like his rookie season all over again when he just couldn’t catch the ball. jr or not jr. he caught kerrence collins throws ok. and had excellent hands. (remember td in dungver in snow) but could not catch jr period
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There is hope for DHB:

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new englandraider

lmfaooooooo. dakota
Plunketthead

AL JUST TEXTED ME WITH THIS

I am trading and drafting for O linemen, big ones.
No more cut blocking scheme.
DHB will go to the probowl next year.
I didnt about the skinny calves when I picked DMAC
Russell is Still a great QB.
Get over it
OFL71

DHB MIGHT turn out to be a descent WR but nowhere near what his draft spot dictates.
Murphy is already far better and Schillens is primed to be big time if healthy,but Bey is average at best.
#7 overall for an average receiver….yeah great pick.
new englandraider

anyone think we should retain routt?????? dare i say the guy might be a pretty good cb. he kills us in the slot, but every time he played for nnamdi he nutted up. played for cj this past week, looked damn good. ( 1 reception on a 3rd down slant for 8 yrds) if he stays he needs to start. cant cover slot
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Job Growth predicted in tomorrows Labor Report
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KoolKell Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Job Growth predicted in tomorrows Labor Report
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Yep, but just in the airport security sector.
Plunketthead

Plunk predicts a negative number for job growth
Hope & change, little buddy, hope & change
RaiderRockstar

CJ spends time in the offseason being mentored by Deion Sanders

I think Routt spends time in the offseason being mentored by guys like Michael Waddell, John Bowie & Jonathan Holland. Maybe even Duane Starks & Tyrone Poole!

we should have traded Routt to the Redskins last year for Fred Smoot. then they’d have toast hall on one side and toast routt on the other!
new englandraider

hey kell. wassup brother?????
mistic1

DKnight007 Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
# Raider guy Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 8:55 pm

Good idea to call John Herrera. (510) 864-5000
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Dknight007,

Thanks for the number I called and it was awesome.

Rich Gannon is bitter. The fact it after his injury he was shown the door. He rehabbed all year, but wasnt cleared by the raiders, to play the following year, he had to retire. It was not only the raiders not give him
a shot, but no other team was interested in the former mvp. He was old and rightfully finished. Im sure Gannon wanted to hang on, he was the ultimate competitor. Gannon probably blames the raiders for the horrible end to his career. He did play the worst super bowl in history, then the next year he is injured, boom career over. This must have left a terrible after taste in his mouth that he is still sucking on. who knows what happened between Davis and Gannon, once he was informed that his services would not be retained. Knowing how strong willed and bull headed both parties are, it couldnt have been pretty. This smells like gannon having a laugh at the raiders expense. In this way he is able to be a thorn in davis’s side. much the same warren sapp has an axe to grind because davis saw that he was finished. Even Tim brown has fallen victim to this behavior. Disgruntled former athletes, showing a real lack of class.
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Dakota Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:46 am
KoolKell Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Job Growth predicted in tomorrows Labor Report
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Yep, but just in the airport security sector.

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And the redneck pawn industry.
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I don’t think DHB will ever live up to the expectation of being the #7 pick, but really that isn’t his fault, he wasn’t a top 10 prospect except in Al’s eyes.

I expect lots of improvement from DHB next year and I think he can be a guy who plays around 10 years or so. He is the perfect size and really fast, blocks well and seems to be a hard-worker. I’m not as down on him as the other two parts of our “triplets”.

Still would have never drafted him.
http://www.Move2Alameda.com KoolKell

Job Growth predicted in tomorrows Labor Report

Read em and weep boys. You America hatin republicans.
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Well put Mistic.
new englandraider

raiderrockstar

u dont think routt’s play was 100% better when he was outside. i think cj gets mentored by the original ”TOAST” elvis patterson… remember him? lol. i think routt plays the outside better than cj. lets see how cj plays the slot. sanders covered slot with ravens. coach em up prime

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