I just can not agree with it for the following reasons…

Reggie M. was a LB with the LA Raiders and understands and honors the Raiders traditions and mystique. However, he also understands no one can run an organization like AD did and survive AD tried to do too many things.

Mark Davis in taking over asked for the advice of former Raiders like Ron Wolf and John Madden in picking RM and is the son of AD!

There has been an openness with former players even ones not allowed to be around such as Rich Gannon to discuss what it means to be a Raider.

I just do not understand your point unless you literally believe the Raiders were AD and only AD can channel the Raiders. AD considering all the people he influenced should have quite the legacy!
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Rob_raider Says:
July 29th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
there’s almost a guarantee of culture change. al davis is dead. many of the people involved with the raiders are gone. there are new people at owner, gm, and the coaching staff. it’s practically just another organization, with little ties to the raiders as we’ve always known (and loved) them. in fact, it’s the time to go to another team if u want to, because this is frankly a “raiders” team in name and uniform color only. many of the players return and they might bring with them old habits, but calling this team the raiders is barely more accurate than calling jon gruden’s buccaneers team the raiders. i will continue to be raiders fan b/c it’s what i know. but i’m not sure it will ever be the same.

are the yankees the same yankees that had ruth, gherig, dimaggio, etc? kinda makes u wonder who ur really rooting for. mark davis, reggie mckenzie, and dennis allen? why do i care? it’s basically the uniforms and the memories the fact they’re in oakland.

It’s encouraging to hear about new coaching regime instilling discipline and everything. But I am worried that the whole concept of whipping the boys into shape may lead to some key early training camp injuries.

In a lot of ways, Allen reminds me of new Tampa coach Greg Schiano with his “toes on the line” policy. He’s already lost his starting LT, cut the team leading WR in TD’s from last year, lost Arrelius Benn to injury, traded away Brian Price who was their early 2nd round pick from 2 years ago for a conditional 7th rounder.

All to make a point that he’s a real hardcore type. He’s willing to sacrifice a lot of valuable pieces to mark his territory. Gone is the rap songs at practice and Raheem’s easy style. It’s hard to say if it will pay any dividends. I think you have to at some point allow the players to play and ease up.

The whole players coach vs disciplinarian coach thing seems to go in cycles. We have a task master in Allen, and that sounds good, but the other side of the coin is we can expect some guys run into the ground and some key injuries too.
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Of course, the coaches have to ease off after awhile. That’s why you need a few guys in the locker room to step up and become the de facto enforcers. They set parameters that the rest of the team implicitly understands you don’t cross. Maybe Seymour can be that guy.

Hey, McLame only jogged ‘once’.

He only whiffed ‘once’ on an easy, game sealing tackle.

He only got arrested ‘once’.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a MLB that we can count on and have the defense make a stop, for ‘ONCE’ ?

‘Once’ upon a time we had great expectations for Ronaldo.

‘Once’ upon a time is also how alot of fairy tales begin.

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When did he win the job?

Isn’t he basically a one year low salary vet signing?