[...]Russell not the only Raider on notice – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

[...]Russell not the only Raider on notice – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

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IF he takes a pay cut Russell can stay. I really think the balls in his court.

Look, I’m a man, same as anyone and I’ve been weak and made mistakes but I for one simply could NOT take the money and run.

$30 million, $300 million, doesn’t matter.

I couldn’t live with myself and the eternal “might have beens”.

He’s young, perhaps selfish and lazy. I’ve been there too. Maybe its my age, maybe not, but never in my life but I could not walk away without trying.

I want McClain studying what the Chragers, Denver, KC and everyone else we play did last year…

McClain was basically a coach in the field for the Crimson Tide and one of the reasons I’m optomistic about him.

No offense Kirk but I think he was miscast and over whelmed.

I watched the Raider run D carefully pouring over their games since Morrison took over MLB and the fact is McClain appears to be everything he simply was not.

Thats good and bad.

Kirk had the speed and skills to play better man cover and get sideline to sideline, McClain not as much.

But, through study and understanding McClain’s got “elite instincts” and through his preparation will help his brother Oakland defenders in their assignments should the athlete in them take over more than the football player.

These were all things Morrison simply wasn’t capable of in Oakland and a major reason why the run defense during his time at the helm gave up so many long runs and TDS.

The funniest line was this one for me….Some women pay thousands of dollars to have breasts like Russell’s.

so funny but shameful that we had to put up with that crap. I almost left Al’s bandwagon over the Jawalrus issue. And I have put up with lots of craps from Al over the years, starting with Marcus Allen.
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AIG, you and I have had our disagreements, I can’t even remember what they were over, something about wife beating maybe, but anyhow, the Marcus Allen thing was when I was a 14 or 15 year old kid and I just remember sitting there watching Raider games and there for some unexplained reason was my second favorite Raider (second only to Howie Long) riding the pine while the team struggled.

And then he became a KC Chief and killed us over and over again.

Al will always be a fool to me for that situation. And he hasn’t done much since to disprove my opinion of him.

The curse of Marcus Allen….in 30 years it might be up there with the Cubs/Goat thing.