Ex-Raider Barret Robbins released from jail, lashes out at reporter
By Jon Becker
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 at 8:02 pm in Oakland Raiders.
Former Raiders center Barret Robbins, was released from a Florida prison Tuesday, where he had spent the past year and a half for an attack on three Miami Beach police officers in 2005, CBS4 in Miami reported.
The station said Robbins appeared unapologetic for his attack on three Miami Beach police officers in 2005. Interviewer Gary Nelson asked Robbins if he could overcome alcohol and drug problems that have plagued him.
“I’m not worried about that and that’s not anybody’s business but mine,” Robbins replied. “That’s something I’ll deal with myself.”
Robbins then broke off the interviewed and uttered an obscenity when asked if he owed the police officers an apology.
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September 25th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
1 NATION
September 25th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
RAIDERS will defeat the broncos
September 25th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Streeter Criner DMO DHB JFORD HAGAN GURLEY
September 25th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
RAIDER will return to glory
September 25th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
I got 5 on it, grab ya 4 lets get keyed
September 25th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
6 will put ya in the mix
September 25th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Anybody else remember the Paul Simon tune “Still Crazy After All These Years?”
September 25th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
7, cannot get you into heaven
September 25th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
And I also see some worthless piece of trash continues to post, pretending they’re me. Reported to Jon Becker and Steve Corkran.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
RaiderDuck Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Anybody else remember the Paul Simon tune “Still Crazy After All These Years?”
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LOL! Fuuuuck.
So Sad. Dude needs to be medicated.
Others may suffer again if He’s not.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Raiders 44
broncos 24
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
He had to have been on the snifty that wild night.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
September 25th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
I kept asking Cork during the chat, what’s up with Ihenacho? He was providing good speed off the edge in preseason. Why isn’t he being utilized more. Cork never answered. Perhaps he knew CI was getting dumped for one of Reggie’s GB guys today.
Don’t know much about So’oto. Hopefully he can be a good player for us. I do wonder about the timing. Doesn’t Ihenacho have a brother on Denver?
September 25th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Oh and seebas breaks all time record longest kick 67 yards book it
September 25th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
I wonder who Barrett ran with in the clink?
September 25th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
14-2
RAIDERS!!
September 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
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The Guy is certifiable. He needs meds.
Raiders new this, and monitored.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
I wonder who Barrett ran with in the clink?
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The 1st Team O? Ha!
September 25th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Guaranteed he was into the dummy dust that night!
September 25th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Speaking of crazy, you guys watch SOA? What a show, if you don’t watch, slap yourself and start tonight.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Leave the guy alone he just got out they want to screw with him, he did his time, he paid, its over let the man be.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Sons of Anarchy looks good, been meaning to check it out on netflix… heard it goes downhill after season 3 though.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
18.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
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The Guy is certifiable. He needs meds.
Raiders new this, and monitored.
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Yeah…really sad. Did they forgot to monitor him on SB morning?
September 25th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Carl Weathers Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Guaranteed he was into the dummy dust that night!
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Could have been CPC.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
Carl Weathers Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Speaking of crazy, you guys watch SOA? What a show, if you don’t watch, slap yourself and start tonight.
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Saw seasons 1-3 on Nflix…SOA, and The Wire 2 best TV shows ever imo…
September 25th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
18.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
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The Guy is certifiable. He needs meds.
Raiders new this, and monitored.
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Yeah…really sad. Did they forgot to monitor him on SB morning?
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If you’re being sarcastic, I’d just reply that the Raiders knew what they were dealing with.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
The wire was awesome. I kept refusing to watch it despite friends pleading the case. I think I would watch the whole thing again in a few years!
September 25th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Redshirt says:
heard it goes downhill after season 3 though.
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You heard wrong. It is without a doubt the most intense show, or movie, I’ve ever seen. Like any series though, after the first couple seasons the writers are figuring out where to take the journey. So far they haven’t dissapointed and the direction they’ve taken, looks like the best has yet to come.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
27.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
18.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
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The Guy is certifiable. He needs meds.
Raiders new this, and monitored.
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Yeah…really sad. Did they forgot to monitor him on SB morning?
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If you’re being sarcastic, I’d just reply that the Raiders knew what they were dealing with.
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lol…Hey Len take it easy there buddy. I was not being sarcastic by any means. Man…you treat me like I’m a 49ers fan. Have I ever disrespected you in anyway?
September 25th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
What’s SOA?
September 25th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I thought Ihenacho had potential from his play in preseason. Maybe he botched on ST’s?
September 25th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
In an effort to turn my 8 yr. old son from a Bears to a Raiders fan, I forced him to watch the 2nd half of the NFL Replay of the Steeler game…He loves the Raider uniforms….thinks “they are cool” and at the end of the game after Janos fg he said “yeeeeeesssss”.
Now i wonder if i did the right thing. Did i just sentence my son to the same up and down Raider life I have?
I don’t have to worry probably…i don’t think he’d ever get as psycho about the Raiders as I have so he’s probably safe.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Despicable “news” story. Robbins did not give them what they wanted, so they proceed to just put a segment together making him look as bad as possible…with little or no regard to the mental illness that spark the behavior. This goes beyond being loyal to a former Raider–just basic humanity. You can’t agree with the behavior Robbins has displayed in the last decade or so-but the mental disorder should at least be mentioned! As well as the events leading up to the confrontation with the police officer. Petty, petty stuff CBS.
Also-Carl Weathers–yes, the Wire is the greatest television show to ever air, in my opinion. Going back and watching it is almost as amazing as the first time.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Tori Gurley a Raider!!!!!
September 25th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
27.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
18.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
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The Guy is certifiable. He needs meds.
Raiders new this, and monitored.
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Yeah…really sad. Did they forgot to monitor him on SB morning?
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If you’re being sarcastic, I’d just reply that the Raiders knew what they were dealing with.
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lol…Hey Len take it easy there buddy. I was not being sarcastic by any means. Man…you treat me like I’m a 49ers fan. Have I ever disrespected you in anyway?
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Not at all, other than calling Me an “Old Man”, which is, of course, relative.
We’re good on my end.
Peace.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Hey Becker, why in the title of this post do you say he “lashes out at reporter”? He said “please” don’t air this and didn’t seem to over react.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Listen up people. If everyone keeps running to Steve and Jer everytime some piss dribbles into their undies, Steve and Jer will put the ol’ kybosh on this blog because they are fed up with all the tattle taleing (sp? who cares). This is just what I’m hearing behind the scenes.
Now just keep in your pants gentlemen. Keep it Raider.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
McThompso, a friend of mine has seen it 4 times!! SHHHHEEEEEEEEIIITTT!
September 25th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
Yo anyone know for sure if we’ve signed Tori Gurley???
September 25th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
In an effort to turn my 8 yr. old son from a Bears to a Raiders fan, I forced him to watch the 2nd half of the NFL Replay of the Steeler game…He loves the Raider uniforms….thinks “they are cool” and at the end of the game after Janos fg he said “yeeeeeesssss”.
Now i wonder if i did the right thing. Did i just sentence my son to the same up and down Raider life I have?
I don’t have to worry probably…i don’t think he’d ever get as psycho about the Raiders as I have so he’s probably safe.
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Funny you should post this.
During the Miami fiasco I apologized to my 21 year old Son, (as He left the room in disgust), only to return to witness the misery, for getting Him mixed up in the mess. lol
Hopefully there will be better days ahead for “Us” and our “Sons”. lol
September 25th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
reggie…reggie what is it with your love of slow recievers? another 4.6…amazing…you must want to lull the defenses to sleep…
September 25th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
36.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
27.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
18.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
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The Guy is certifiable. He needs meds.
Raiders new this, and monitored.
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Yeah…really sad. Did they forgot to monitor him on SB morning?
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If you’re being sarcastic, I’d just reply that the Raiders knew what they were dealing with.
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lol…Hey Len take it easy there buddy. I was not being sarcastic by any means. Man…you treat me like I’m a 49ers fan. Have I ever disrespected you in anyway?
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Not at all, other than calling Me an “Old Man”, which is, of course, relative.
We’re good on my end.
Peace.
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LOL Me calling you old Man was all in good fun…Honestly. I didn’t even know you read that darn post. I meant no harm at all. Absolutely we are good! Peace and Blessings Len.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Oh, good post btw. They don’t mention anything about the illness, didn’t notice that part missing having already known about it, I guess.
Just a small piece of evidence of how the news can be skewed to twist a story anyway they want it.
September 25th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Tori Gurley a Raider per his Twitter.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
LOL Me calling you old Man was all in good fun…Honestly. I didn’t even know you read that darn post. I meant no harm at all. Absolutely we are good! Peace and Blessings Len.
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Right back at you Goldie!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
OklahomaRaider18 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Tori Gurley a Raider per his Twitter.
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Yep.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Yeah…It stunk of being skewed just by the tone at the beginning…that is the main reason I was looking out for it. They briefly allude to it by saying he plea in court was b/c of bipolar disorder-but almost tried to make it sound like that was a sham, even though it was already well known by that time that he suffered with at least bipolar disorder. Not only was it just awful towards Robbins-but completely insensitive towards Bipolar Disorder. sheeeeeeit.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
45.oklahomaRaider18 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Tori Gurley a Raider per his Twitter.
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Indeed he is OR, good looking out….here’s the link:
http://raidernationtimes.com/article.php?id=9291
September 25th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
WTF is up with Reggie going after all the Green Bay backups?
Can’t the man do his own work and stop piggybacking his old team?
Unbelievable…..
September 25th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Hopefully there will be better days ahead for “Us” and our “Sons”. lol
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Where I live it’s either Packers or Bears…i’d rather my son go’s Bears personally than GB, but…he’s too young to be that much into it…not like I was when I was 8, but he sees me on the laptop and says “who are texting on that dumb Raiders site”? Ha. He says “why do u like the Raiders so much..they’re stupid”.
I just laff at that, but after tonight he may just have gotten hooked. Poor kid. Lol.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
I wish we would sign Andre Carter only if healthy….
September 25th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Hopefully there will be better days ahead for “Us” and our “Sons”. lol
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Where I live it’s either Packers or Bears…i’d rather my son go’s Bears personally than GB, but…he’s too young to be that much into it…not like I was when I was 8, but he sees me on the laptop and says “who are texting on that dumb Raiders site”? Ha. He says “why do u like the Raiders so much..they’re stupid”.
I just laff at that, but after tonight he may just have gotten hooked. Poor kid. Lol.
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Nice! He’s about the age when He slugs the Girl He likes in the shoulder.
I think He just slugged the Raiders in the shoulder. lol
September 25th, 2012 at 9:10 pm
HOLLA DUDES
still drainin dueces after holdin out for three weeks. my o my. got a small truck lode of #2. thats just how i roll
i eat at the all you can eat for four dollas. and they always ask me to leave after i spend half the day in there. they even check my bags. took 40 pounds of chicken from me last nite.
HOLLA FOWIZZLE JUST KEEPIN RIZZLE
September 25th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
WTF is up with Reggie going after all the Green Bay backups?
Can’t the man do his own work and stop piggybacking his old team?
Unbelievable…..
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Packers were 15-1 last year.
They seem to have drafted well over the years.
Overflow of talent?
Relative to the Raiders current roster, maybe GB has some pieces we can use.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
WTF is up with Reggie going after all the Green Bay backups?
Can’t the man do his own work and stop piggybacking his old team?
Unbelievable…..
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We were told this was gonna be “Green Bay West” at the start when we got Underwood…then…no one else came here.
I was hoping Reggie could pull a deal for a good corner..or two but I guess all we have out there are guys from other teams practice squads.
I was thinking how i would feel ok if they brought CJ37 back at this point. He wasn’t very good at the end but compared to what we have right now? We have a shot to maybe be competitive this yr. and it’d be a shame to have our CB postion get decimated by opposing QB’s all yr.
For some reason CJ37 doesn’t look so bad.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
The following 4th down play he runs into the pile when replay showed that the hole opened right in front of him yet he chose to run where more bodies were. Right into the back of Kelly or Houston.
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You watch that play and have to wonder WTF Slo is thinking on that play.
Does he have any idea where the ball is ? Does he even look into the backfield to see where the ball carrier is ?
Just runs/jogs himself out of the play and leaves the middle gap completely unattended.
A terrible play at a big moment.
Could have easily cost the Raids the game.
Another instance of Slo whiffing/disappearing on a 4th down play that could win the game.
Just an atrocious play. The type that gets you run out of Oakland and the NFL.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Fangsraiders Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Week 3 Baboon QB Stats – Attempts=150…Completions=74…Pct=49% <—-what a joke
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bet this guy would suk a black guys dik if he could.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
So far….the worst component in the Raider organization is Reggie McKenzie….
That’s a FACT!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Reporter has a very mocking tone and seems to clearly take sides. Truth is he doesn’t know sh1t about what Robbins suffers from or has to deal with. Not saying what he did should be excused, just that the old goon reporting doesn’t know the situation. The anchor woman showed much more class in saying “well, let’s hope he gets better”.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
So far….the worst component in the Raider organization is Reggie McKenzie….
That’s a FACT!
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BECAUSE!???
September 25th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
DJ, abusing your son I see? Don’t subject him to our misery. lol. Just playin’.
Raise him right! Raise him as a RAIDAH!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:13 pm ……………..
Didn’t you say the Raider/pitt game was going to be shown this week on NFL TV? Time? I can’t find it.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
RAIDERMAN99 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
The following 4th down play he runs into the pile when replay showed that the hole opened right in front of him yet he chose to run where more bodies were. Right into the back of Kelly or Houston.
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You watch that play and have to wonder WTF Slo is thinking on that play.
Does he have any idea where the ball is ? Does he even look into the backfield to see where the ball carrier is ?
Just runs/jogs himself out of the play and leaves the middle gap completely unattended.
A terrible play at a big moment.
Could have easily cost the Raids the game.
Another instance of Slo whiffing/disappearing on a 4th down play that could win the game.
Just an atrocious play. The type that gets you run out-of Oakland and the NFL.
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That’s right. If he thinks he can do that stuff to avoid taking a guy on..to avoid injury or whatever he’s thinking then he’s only hurting himself and his future.
We see this..GM’s and coaches see that stuff, and he’d better save some of the money he’s making cuz if that keeps up he’ll just get flat out cut and his career?. …..Over!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
WinAGame Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:13 pm ……………..
Didn’t you say the Raider/pitt game was going to be shown this week on NFL TV? Time? I can’t find it.
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It ended about an hour ago…Not sure if they’re playing it again. Sorry u missed it.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
So far….the worst component in the Raider organization is Reggie McKenzie….
That’s a FACT!
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BECAUSE!???
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He bought into the hype that Mr. Davis and his scouts didn’t know what they were doing….
He came in an acted too fast….completely removing every corner on the roster….and NOW….this is our biggest concern…
This is a HUGE MISTAKE….one that the media has overlooked…..one that NO ONE BUT ME seems to be talking about….
Our Special Teams Coach is horrible…but he deserves his paycheck more than Reggie McKenzie!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
WTF is up with Reggie going after all the Green Bay backups?
Can’t the man do his own work and stop piggybacking his old team?
Unbelievable…..
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Not a stretch to believe that a few GB practice squad guys are better than our guys 53rd best guy. Just not a stretch.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
WinAGame Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:13 pm ……………..
Didn’t you say the Raider/pitt game was going to be shown this week on NFL TV? Time? I can’t find it.
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It ended about an hour ago…Not sure if they’re playing it again. Sorry u missed it.
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Dang it……………….. Thanx
September 25th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
These kinds of mistakes have gone unnoticed by almost everyone….
Reggie all by himself….has put this team in a bind….
Now we have to rely on his Nepotistic Scouting Crew to fix the problem…..
I don’t think they can….
September 25th, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Try Some Reality Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
DJ, abusing your son I see? Don’t subject him to our misery. lol. Just playin’.
Raise him right! Raise him as a RAIDAH!
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Ha. We celebrated after the Jano fg tonight…he said “yeeeeeesssss” and he likes our uniforms. I think he’s in.
But…he’s too interested in video games and online games etc. Kids don’t play like I did as a kid. I played with neighborhood friends on the street…two hand touch on the concrete of course and we had a game called “One Yd. Game” we’d play in the grass. You’d line up 3 on 3 and try to get one yd…tackle. I broke a tooth playing it.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Sign up Palmer’s boy Jordan Shipley
September 25th, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
These kinds of mistakes have gone unnoticed by almost everyone….
Reggie all by himself….has put this team in a bind….
Now we have to rely on his Nepotistic Scouting Crew to fix the problem…..
I don’t think they can….
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So in other words…”We are Doomed”
I’m willing to give it more than 6 or 8 months.
Al had 50 years, some decades were better than others.
Peace and Good Night.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
I think Dennis Allen has better job security at this point than Reggie does….
Just Saying’
I say MARK DAVIS is more cutthroat than ANY of you in here believe him to be…..
Reggie, better WAKE UP BUDDY….
Your replacement is already doing your job better than you are….
WRITE THAT DOWN!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Yd. Game” we’d play in the grass. You’d line up 3 on 3 and try to get one yd…tackle. I broke a tooth playing it.
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Just saw this as I’m checking out. Had a childhood friend have His two front teeth busted out on my parents driveway as we tackled Him playin the same game. lol
That was about 1970 or 71. Ha!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
backstage…ive been saying this all along…reggie bought the line from the media haters and came in trying to scrap it all…corner is the obvious place but also wr and rb….he is killing this team with slow washups…
September 25th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Al_is_theraiders Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
backstage…ive been saying this all along…reggie bought the line from the media haters and came in trying to scrap it all…corner is the obvious place but also wr and rb….he is killing this team with slow washups…
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We have a 76 year old John Madden and a 73 year old Ron WOlf to blame…..
Mark is watching closely….
He realizes that he didn’t make this decision….the next time….HE WILL….
September 25th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
El Pollo Loco Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Sign up Palmer’s boy Jordan Shipley
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No way. He’s already washed up. He just got cut from the Bucs.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
For all you people know….I AM MARK DAVIS…
Maybe I am….maybe I’m not!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Plaxico Burress
2011 Season
REC YDS TD
45 612 8
Sign him up! Instant red zone threat. He does not even need to know the playbook to run a fade route.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Plax would look nice in silver & black
September 25th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Backstage,
It will be interesting to see when the real Mark Davis stands up.
We knew what Al Davis was about for the most part but Mark? A mystery thus far. Some portray him as a guy who will try to be just like dad, others say he’s his own man, others say he couldn’t care less about anything other than making money…no matter where he makes it.
I’d like to think he’s very concerned about the product on the field.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Reggie is afraid to make a mistake….this is what his focus is…..and this is exactly why this is all he continues to do….
September 25th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
I hope B. Robbins is able keep up with his medicine to treat his bipolar disorder. I’m hoping he overcomes the alcohol and drug addiction. He’s dealing with a lot of problems and my prayers are sent his way. Robbins is only 39(he looks older)…therefore giving him plenty of time to fight his illnesses.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
For all you people know….I AM MARK DAVIS…
Maybe I am….maybe I’m not!
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I had u pegged as a scout of some kind…or former scout…when u burst on the scene. You denied you were a Raider scout.
YOU’RE MARK DAVIS!
September 25th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Backstage,
It will be interesting to see when the real Mark Davis stands up.
We knew what Al Davis was about for the most part but Mark? A mystery thus far. Some portray him as a guy who will try to be just like dad, others say he’s his own man, others say he couldn’t care less about anything other than making money…no matter where he makes it.
I’d like to think he’s very concerned about the product on the field.
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It will indeed….
“True friends stab you in the front”
-Oscar Wilde-
September 25th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
I hope B. Robbins is able keep up with his medicine to treat his bipolar disorder. I’m hoping he overcomes the alcohol and drug addiction. He’s dealing with a lot of problems and my prayers are sent his way. Robbins is only 39(he looks older)…therefore giving him plenty of time to fight his illnesses.
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He looks like a man in his early 50s…
September 25th, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Al_is_theraiders Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
reggie…reggie what is it with your love of slow recievers? another 4.6…amazing…you must want to lull the defenses to sleep…
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As opposed to what? Al’s habit was collecting burners who couldn’t get open, couldn’t make a play on the ball, couldn’t do…ANYTHING really, except run fast.
Give me the slower guy who can actually play the position every time.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
87,
It appears Gurley runs a slow 40 time…Maybe he can some routes tho.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
the slow guy never threatens the def allowing them to concentrate more on the single weapon we have…makes the defense/offense they are playing that much more aggressive…the slow guy is at his ceiling no further improvement to be reached…this isnt high school quack…
September 25th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Fuk Barret Robbins.. The second I heard the report that he was “missing” or.. whatever they reported that day before the Super Bowl, I knew we were doomed. I just had no idea how badly. Blame it on Chuckie knowing it all or on Gannon or whatever.. I blame Barret Robbins
September 25th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
SOA = Sons Of Anarchy
September 25th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Al_is_theraiders Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
the slow guy is at his ceiling no further improvement to be reached…this isnt high school quack…
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And that was exactly Al’s thinking, which led us to drafting burner after burner who could only run Go routes while other teams drafted complete receivers who could actually help their offenses.
Contrary to what Al thought, speed is NOT everything. He would have recognized that had he not become so set in his ways.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
PlunkforHOF Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Fuk Barret Robbins.. The second I heard the report that he was “missing” or.. whatever they reported that day before the Super Bowl, I knew we were doomed. I just had no idea how badly. Blame it on Chuckie knowing it all or on Gannon or whatever.. I blame Barret Robbins
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His going off to Mexico on a bender might not have cost us the game, but it was definitely a distraction the team DIDN’T need. He was justly ostracized afterwards.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
DJ Johnny Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Try Some Reality Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
DJ, abusing your son I see? Don’t subject him to our misery. lol. Just playin’.
Raise him right! Raise him as a RAIDAH!
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Ha. We celebrated after the Jano fg tonight…he said “yeeeeeesssss” and he likes our uniforms. I think he’s in.
But…he’s too interested in video games and online games etc. Kids don’t play like I did as a kid. I played with neighborhood friends on the street…two hand touch on the concrete of course and we had a game called “One Yd. Game” we’d play in the grass. You’d line up 3 on 3 and try to get one yd…tackle. I broke a tooth playing it.
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Yeah, not the same as it used to be. We used to play 2-hand touch in the street and tackle at the local baseball field. A similar game to your 1-yard game that we played was “Smear the Queer”. 1 guy with the ball on one end of a lawn or strip of grass trying to get to the other end without the others tackling him. 1 against everyone else.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Thec Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
SOA = Sons Of Anarchy
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RIP Opie…
September 25th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
but it is quack, look at all the dominant players out there…teams have to gameplan for that speed…that changes a defenses attitude/aggressivenes…offense isnt about “take what they give you…” its take what you want.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Seriously? You call the lashing out? C’mon man, don’t make up fake headlines to get people to read your article.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
RIP Opie…
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That sucs…Opie was a straight soldier for Sam Crow.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Al_is_theraiders Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
but it is quack, look at all the dominant players out there…teams have to gameplan for that speed…that changes a defenses attitude/aggressivenes…offense isnt about “take what they give you…” its take what you want.
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Look at the dominant wideouts. Calvin Johnson is fast, but he’s not a burner. Neither were Jerry Rice or Tim Brown. Cris Carter was S-L-O-W for a wideout, but he’s going to the HoF (if he’s not there already). All of these guys can or could run different routes well, shield defenders from the ball, and make plays on the ball.
Al got into a rut of looking at a receiver’s 40 time and making his decision solely on that. So we end up with James Jett and others who are FAST, but liabilities most of the time. DHB was that way when we drafted him, and only rose above “burner who can’t play” status thanks to an almost inhuman work ethic and drive to get better.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
86.RaiderDuck Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
I hope B. Robbins is able keep up with his medicine to treat his bipolar disorder. I’m hoping he overcomes the alcohol and drug addiction. He’s dealing with a lot of problems and my prayers are sent his way. Robbins is only 39(he looks older)…therefore giving him plenty of time to fight his illnesses.
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He looks like a man in his early 50s…
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He does Duck…he really does.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
Even though guys like Criner do not have burner speed, they more than make up for it with NATURAL catching abilty, and size. Moreover, they also benifit from the basketball experience. Criner and the new kid have close to a 40 inch vert. Add that to NATURAL catching ability, speed becomes an after thought.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
Why do we keep picking up GB leftover bums they cannot help us last I checked GBs dbs haven’t been setn the league on fire so I know their practice sqaud guys are bums.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Cork said we are 6 mil under cap..now might be a good time to use some of that money since we only have 1 healthy wr . plax, shipley,gaffney..dont understand why we are not moving forward. maybe mark isnt allowing reggie to spend. ive already given up improving our secondary.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Eastoaklandraider Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
Why do we keep picking up GB leftover bums they cannot help us last I checked GBs dbs haven’t been setn the league on fire so I know their practice sqaud guys are bums.
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Again, if they’re better than who we have now, what else matters?
September 25th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
I like this tori gurley guy he can catch he’s just not fast. And I’m not a big speed fan, I’m a fan of Touchdowns and First downs cause that makes a good wideout.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Try Some Reality Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
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“Smear the queer”?
Lol.
We played a game called “boooooosh” which was all of us acting like NFL Films highlights and doing everything in slow motion. When we hit each other we went “boooooooooosh” and hit hard at the end.
Also had a game called ‘Stingley’ where we’d throw it up intentionally to a guy who ahve to make the catch while the defender tried to decapitate him…ala Tatum on Stingley.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
We played a game called “boooooosh” which was all of us acting like NFL Films highlights and doing everything in slow motion. When we hit each other we went “boooooooooosh” and hit hard at the end.
Also had a game called ‘Stingley’ where we’d throw it up intentionally to a guy who ahve to make the catch while the defender tried to decapitate him…ala Tatum on Stingley.
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lol.
On that note, nite fellas.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
smear the queer? thats what some of you did to beechy dawg today
September 25th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Is waiving San Jose State Carl Iheanacho an admittance of a prior mistake by our GM?
I mean what the hell are we doing?
We believed in the guy a few months ago….
So what happened?
September 25th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Some fans really dont get it. Reggie Mckenzie was director of pro personel for 16 years with green bay. Im sure he scouted and talked to these players the last two years recently.. they are all young guys and with huge upside.
That soto kid is a talent. I linked a big article in the blog before. Packer fans were sorry to see Brandian ross go to. Most said GURLEY deserves to be starting for a team.
I read on the packer forums when Mckenzie was hired to the Raiders that he would turn our organization into a winner and do it the right way. THey said he will doing great things for this org in time.
THey also said that Raider fans are gonna “love it” once Reggie starts going with young unknown names over pas their prime big name players. HE would go young and unknown more then a big “Name” type player and true to their words we are seeing it.
Thats how the packers were built according to them. I really dont get why fans get mad at bringing in young talent. U wanted a GM u got one. REGGIE’s GUYS helped win the game on sunday
LEE forced fumble. Wheeler 11 tackles 2x Forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. Hansen Fumble recovery so just STFU we won on sunday. He is bringing in football players and tyring to build A TEAM.
Not just a bunch of me guys who dont love football and are collecting checks. He is bringing in football players who are about the team. ITs not hard to understand.
The raiders have lacked depth for years. Wait till reggie has more money and MORE DRAFT PICKS.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Backstageatapuppetshow Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Is waiving San Jose State Carl Iheanacho an admittance of a prior mistake by our GM?
I mean what the hell are we doing?
We believed in the guy a few months ago….
So what happened?
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Ihenacho was originally signed by the prior braintrust.
At any rate, notice the open spot on the PS. Ihenacho may not be unemployed long.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
article on new linebacker Vic So’oto.
if you thought the Green Bay Packers were not going to be able to replace his pass rush ability, say hello to Vic So’oto.
The undrafted free agent will be part of a group that includes defensive end Mike Neal and nose tackle B.J. Raji and will be obliged to fill the void Jenkins left when he took his services to Philadelphia.
Based on the Packers’ final two preseason games, So’oto is going to be a player who can help their pass rush right away.
In the final two games, he notched 2½ sacks, two forced fumbles and an interception returned for a touchdown, sealing his place on the 53-man roster and marking him as a candidate to play against New Orleans in the season opener. The fact much of So’oto’s work came against the opponents’ starters says a lot about his legitimacy.
“He’s a beast, a young beast,” veteran nose tackle Howard Green said. “That’s what I call him, ‘Young Beast.’ He’s just a stud. He’s strong and he’s talented and he’s coachable.”
And he’s also a member of the 2011 Packers, although that won’t be official until Saturday when final cuts are made.
So’oto would have to go out and rob a bank to blow his shot at making the 53-man roster and even that probably wouldn’t lead the Packers to release him. There’s more than a dozen and a half teams who are kicking themselves that they didn’t project So’oto to make the adjustment from 4-3 defensive end at Brigham Young to 3-4 outside linebacker in the NFL.
All it cost the Packers was a signing bonus of $8,500 to attract So’oto to Green Bay.
After they watch film of the Packers’ 20-19 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night at Lambeau Field, the others will see that So’oto dominated the game, personally snuffing out the Chiefs’ first two drives and then later adding the game-winning points with a 33-yard interception return for a touchdown.
His initial thoughts after the game was that he could have done more and that outside linebackers coach Kevin Greene was going to chew him out for the mistakes he made, including a technical error on the scoring play.
But there’s no way Greene or anyone else could have ignored the production the rookie had against a Chiefs team trying to get its No. 1 offense quality work.
“I could have had a couple more sacks if I had gone inside instead of outside,” So’oto said when asked what he could have done better. “KG is going to be very disappointed.”
Maybe in the short term he will, but in the long term Greene and the rest of the defensive coaches had to be elated that they had found a pass-rushing source they never envisioned when they allowed Jenkins to leave. So’oto might be able to be used right away in passing situations to complement Matthews, Raji and a healthy Neal, thereby softening the loss of the team’s second-best pass rusher.
“We just have to play good football and just carry out the game plan,” Raji said. “You don’t expect to replace Cullen Jenkins with one player, but as long as guys are playing hard and not hurting us (we’ll be all right).”
On Thursday, So’oto hit the trifecta with his big plays, sacking the quarterback on third down, stripping a running back of the ball and returning the interception for a touchdown. If he had been wearing jersey No. 52, no one would have known it wasn’t Matthews inside the helmet.
On the very first series of the game, he drove right tackle Barry Richardson backward and sacked quarterback Matt Cassel for a 4-yard loss. On the very next series, he showed up again, this time stripping the ball from 1,400-yard rusher Jamaal Charles at the Packers 19, snuffing out another drive.
“I tackled him from behind and when I reached around I could feel the ball,” So’oto said. “I just pulled it out.”
Before finishing off the game with his interception, he shared a sack with linebacker D.J. Smith that destroyed yet another drive by the Chiefs’ No. 1 offense, which played into the third quarter.
Then, with the Packers trailing, 16-13, with 4½ minutes to go in the third, So’oto jumped quarterback Tyler Palko’s pass in the flat to receiver Dexter McCluster and raced 33 yards to the end zone.
So’oto somewhat sheepishly described the play.
“I actually messed up,” he said of allowing the tight end to get outside of him. “Coach is going to yell at me. In practice I messed that up, too. But I knew he was going to throw the ball to McCluster. I was hoping he would.”
The emergence of So’oto means the Packers have four quality outside linebackers they can use interchangeably: Matthews, Erik Walden, Frank Zombo and So’oto. Walden is still the starter because he’s more versatile and less prone to mistakes, but you can bet defensive coordinator Dom Capers will find a way to use So’oto opening day against New Orleans.
“So’oto’s a big-time player,” Raji said. “He’s exactly what you’re looking for.”
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/128985588.html
September 25th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
Thec Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
RIP Opie…
+++++++++=
That sucs…Opie was a straight soldier for Sam Crow.
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He went out like a fukkin warrior! What an episode!!
September 25th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
for those of u that want cliff notes
“So’oto’s a big-time player,” Raji said. “He’s exactly what you’re looking for.”
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The NFL is once big cirlce jerk of recycled players. All teams get other teams players. U think pats fans were saying why we always getting Raiders scraps?? well they picked one up in STERLING MOORE last year and he was playing starting CB in the super bowl sometimes a player develops.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
RaidersAllday_LtsGeTit Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Some fans really dont get it. Reggie Mckenzie was director of pro personel for 16 years with green bay. Im sure he scouted and talked to these players the last two years recently.. they are all young guys and with huge upside.
That soto kid is a talent. I linked a big article in the blog before. Packer fans were sorry to see Brandian ross go to. Most said GURLEY deserves to be starting for a team.
I read on the packer forums when Mckenzie was hired to the Raiders that he would turn our organization into a winner and do it the right way. THey said he will doing great things for this org in time.
THey also said that Raider fans are gonna “love it” once Reggie starts going with young unknown names over pas their prime big name players. HE would go young and unknown more then a big “Name” type player and true to their words we are seeing it.
Thats how the packers were built according to them. I really dont get why fans get mad at bringing in young talent. U wanted a GM u got one. REGGIE’s GUYS helped win the game on sunday
LEE forced fumble. Wheeler 11 tackles 2x Forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. Hansen Fumble recovery so just STFU we won on sunday. He is bringing in football players and tyring to build A TEAM.
Not just a bunch of me guys who dont love football and are collecting checks. He is bringing in football players who are about the team. ITs not hard to understand.
The raiders have lacked depth for years. Wait till reggie has more money and MORE DRAFT PICKS.
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NONSENSE. Bringing in 2 injury prone second tier CB’s as starters in a pass happy league= bad move. Bringing in Mr fumble Goodson= bad move. The list goes on
September 25th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
RaiderDuck Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Eastoaklandraider Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
Why do we keep picking up GB leftover bums they cannot help us last I checked GBs dbs haven’t been setn the league on fire so I know their practice sqaud guys are bums.
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Again, if they’re better than who we have now, what else matters?
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Sorry duck I can’t see a promising young db being available after week 3. Whoever this guy is he is a bum and a waste of a roster spot.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
RaidersAllday_LtsGeTit Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Some fans really dont get it. Reggie Mckenzie was director of pro personel for 16 years with green bay. Im sure he scouted and talked to these players the last two years recently.. they are all young guys and with huge upside.
That soto kid is a talent. I linked a big article in the blog before. Packer fans were sorry to see Brandian ross go to. Most said GURLEY deserves to be starting for a team.
I read on the packer forums when Mckenzie was hired to the Raiders that he would turn our organization into a winner and do it the right way. THey said he will doing great things for this org in time.
THey also said that Raider fans are gonna “love it” once Reggie starts going with young unknown names over pas their prime big name players. HE would go young and unknown more then a big “Name” type player and true to their words we are seeing it.
Thats how the packers were built according to them. I really dont get why fans get mad at bringing in young talent. U wanted a GM u got one. REGGIE’s GUYS helped win the game on sunday
LEE forced fumble. Wheeler 11 tackles 2x Forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. Hansen Fumble recovery so just STFU we won on sunday. He is bringing in football players and tyring to build A TEAM.
Not just a bunch of me guys who dont love football and are collecting checks. He is bringing in football players who are about the team. ITs not hard to understand.
The raiders have lacked depth for years. Wait till reggie has more money and MORE DRAFT PICKS.
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16 years being nothing more than a YES man…
Go sell your 26.00 tickets on another BLOG….
“LEE forced fumble. Wheeler 11 tackles 2x Forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. Hansen Fumble recovery so just STFU we won on sunday. He is bringing in football players and tyring to build A TEAM.”
Lee gave up career numbers to Hartline the week before….the only reason Hanson is on the team is because the other 2 DB’s he signed already got hurt….he should take responsibility for this….
Wheeler and Burris were nice additions…I’ll give you that….but if the secondary ends up being the death of this team…
The BLAME falls on the General Manager, Reggie McKenzie….
September 25th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
“In the final two games, he notched 2½ sacks, two forced fumbles and an interception returned for a touchdown, sealing his place on the 53-man roster and marking him as a candidate to play against New Orleans in the season opener. The fact much of So’oto’s work came against the opponents’ starters says a lot about his legitimacy.”
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Carl Iheanacho made plays in pre season too my friend…
September 25th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Are you at practice every day? no ..
and Goodson hasnt dont much? umm other then have a solid KR to put us over the 50 yard line and in scoring posistion b4 halftime. What other KR has done since Ford got hurt? Inhenacho was decent but its obvious they gave the guy his chance.
I mean the let him make the team and gave him a guarenteed SALARY. Now why would they do that if they didnd think he would pan out?
September 25th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Hagan is better than DHB.
September 25th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
and Gurley ran a 4.56 at his combine
An athlete that other teams have been interested in @ WR”
Gurley is 6-4 230 pounds with good hands and good speed for someone his size
September 25th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
RaidersAllday_LtsGeTit Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Are you at practice every day? no ..
and Goodson hasnt dont much? umm other then have a solid KR to put us over the 50 yard line and in scoring posistion b4 halftime. What other KR has done since Ford got hurt? Inhenacho was decent but its obvious they gave the guy his chance.
I mean the let him make the team and gave him a guarenteed SALARY. Now why would they do that if they didnd think he would pan out?
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I know more about this team from where I sit then Reggie does watching practice….
WRITE THAT DOWN!
September 25th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Yeah, not the same as it used to be. We used to play 2-hand touch in the street and tackle at the local baseball field. A similar game to your 1-yard game that we played was “Smear the Queer”. 1 guy with the ball on one end of a lawn or strip of grass trying to get to the other end without the others tackling him. 1 against everyone else.
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Sounds like a game we played called British bulldog. On a field, one kid started in the middle while the rest tried to cross it. Lone guy tries to tackle anyone, thus recruiting them to the middle until only one, the victor, I’d left.
September 25th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
This team is being rebuilt from ground up.
I like the fact that we are now looking for football players instead of track men.
September 25th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Is left*^
G’night!
September 25th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
You can’t be that good if your available 3 weeks into the season PERIOD
September 25th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Kirk Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
This team is being rebuilt from ground up.
I like the fact that we are now looking for football players instead of track men.
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You don’t rebuild from the ground up….
You BUILD from the WHY?
The “why” is the reason behind every decision…
Reggie’s “WHY” is FEAR BASED….in other words….every decision he makes or does not make is executed with a mentality of “HOW WILL THIS MAKE ME LOOK”?
He has no CLUE what he is doing….
The reason I KNOW THIS is because I KNOW what I am DOING….and my “WHY” is and will ALWAYS be greater than his WHY…
Reggie is a parasite….attempting to COPY a blueprint the Packers used to win a Super Bowl…
Instead of building his OWN way….he has been conditioned through 16 years to follow a play it safe pattern….when…lets be honest….the ONLY REASON the Packers won a Super Bowl is because the QB was Great that particular season….
September 25th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
I been telling you guys for weeks, that call that went seattles way was bogus man, bogus.
September 25th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
If you want SB talent you have to pay for it and draft well in the early rounds look at SB teams and you will see that.
September 25th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Reggie is a COPY CAT GM…
-END OF DISCUSSION-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc7oZ9yWqO4
September 25th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Mr. Davis RIP, was a creator.
September 25th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Kirk,..you come up with that theory all by yourself?…gosh, Iv never heard that theory before. Youre like a pioneer, a trailblazer. I must follow your thoughts here more often, I really like originals like you.
September 25th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
We throwin it down even bigger for Jax bro,..D lot this time,…you must make an appearence.
September 26th, 2012 at 12:08 am
Peyton must go down, and must go down hard.
September 26th, 2012 at 12:10 am
AmysInCharge Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:08 am
Peyton must go down, and must go down hard.
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For once, you and I agree 100%. Send the house after him. This would have been suicide a few years ago, but make #18 prove he can thread those passes still. I don’t think he can.
September 26th, 2012 at 12:20 am
I’ll never forget the great Bill Callahan, standing on his priciples to suspend Pro Bowl Center Robbins after he missed curfew.
I remember Shaking My Head saying just let the guy play ITS THE FREAKING SUPERBOWL! Who cares if he missed curfew…its the Raiders after all!
Why not let the dude play, give us the best chance to win and then fine him later on?!
The Raider days of olde might have helped there…
September 26th, 2012 at 12:21 am
100%?…hey man, what a relief,…99% would really have disappointed me.
September 26th, 2012 at 12:22 am
Ya, ok, Bill made that call,..he never consulted Al on what to do with Robbins,..nooooo, of course not. LMAO
September 26th, 2012 at 12:26 am
I’d like to see the season play itself out and maybe next season, after a draft with actual picks, before I’d call Reggie Mac a failure.
September 26th, 2012 at 12:26 am
AmysInCharge Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:21 am
100%?…hey man, what a relief,…99% would really have disappointed me.
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And of course that would be a disaster rivaling Pompeii, the Titanic, the Hindenburg or Michael Dukakis’ 1988 campaign…
September 26th, 2012 at 12:29 am
AmysInCharge Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:22 am
Ya, ok, Bill made that call,..he never consulted Al on what to do with Robbins,..nooooo, of course not. LMAO
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I seem to remember the Raiders (under Al) allowing players to play hungover after all nighters. Just watching Callahan coach a couple of years, he seemed just dumb. Dude got lucky and inherited a good team and was just a poor poor decision maker.
September 26th, 2012 at 12:32 am
Im moving forward ese, not dwelling on a game ten years ago,…time to move on Holmes.
September 26th, 2012 at 1:30 am
First off, Barrett Robbins was diagnosed with bipolar disorder all the way back to his college days. So that was no surprise.
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A troubled life on the line
By Jon Saraceno, USA TODAY
MIAMI BEACH — Barret Robbins may be lonely, but he is not alone in his hospital room. At his bedside lurks the two-headed monster of manic depression. Heavily sedated, stricken with pneumonia and breathing with the help of a ventilator, the massive former pro football player struggles for every breath and, silently, his sanity.
Barret Robbins was a Pro Bowl center for the Raiders before his career was derailed.
By Julie Jacobson, AP
Two years after going AWOL before Super Bowl XXXVII, the off-center former Oakland Raiders lineman is back in a hospital again — with an armed police officer outside his door. If he is fortunate, he will live to again confront his bipolar disorder in hopes of conquering mania and depression, demons exacerbated by his self-medicating use of alcohol and drugs.
This is a tragic story filled with turmoil, heartbreak — and a family’s hope for a loved one tormented by the invisible pain of mental illness. In 2003, two days before the most important game of his life, Robbins went on a drinking binge in Tijuana, Mexico, that left him in a psychiatric ward and under a suicide watch on Super Bowl Sunday.
Nineteen days ago, disturbed by a dissolving marriage and his wife’s restraining order, the 6-3, 360-pound native Texan was found by police hiding in a women’s restroom. In a bizarre confrontation with three officers, the burly 31-year-old was shot in the heart and in a lung. He faces three felony attempted murder charges, punishable by as much as life in prison. His attorney says an insanity defense is appropriate, if needed.
Manic depression is an incurable mood disorder that is treatable with medication — prescriptions that friends and family say Robbins failed to take during his long nights of partying along a strip of bars and trendy clubs in South Beach.
Jimi Hendrix wailed mournfully about it. Experts suggest Van Gogh and Hemingway might have had it. And an estimated 21/2 million Americans, including Dick Cavett, Kitty Dukakis and Ted Turner, publicly have acknowledged they suffer from manic depression.
Depression carries stigma
VALENCIA, Calif. – A century ago, those suffering from epilepsy were thought to be possessed by demons. In the 1950s, “cancer” was uttered in a whisper. Thirty years later, the mere mention of AIDS fueled fear – the same ignorance that continues to plague those afflicted with manic depression.
“I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘Is it an epidemic?’ ” Marisa Robbins says of her husband’s illness. “If you don’t educate yourself, mental illness can be scary. I hope and pray our story will make someone think, ‘I wonder if that’s my brother or my sister or my mom.’ ”
One aspect of stigma is that people “perceive (bipolar disorder) to be untreatable,” says Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. “The most important thing to say is that it’s a very common illness and it is treatable.”
She should know: She is bipolar and the author of An Unquiet Mind , a personal account of the disease, which afflicts about 1% of the U.S. population, a significant number from a public health perspective. Depression accounts for another 17%.
“There’s a gap between public understanding and medical reality,” she says. “And people don’t know what to do with those who seem unpredictable. They’re frightened.”
Among the symptoms: a change in sleeping patterns; irritability or excitability; grandiosity and paranoia; rapid speech and physical movement. The first episode of bipolar illness often is depression. It often takes years to detect and disproportionately strikes the young, for which suicide is the second-leading killer.
“The average length of time between the first episode of an illness and the correct diagnosis is about 10 years,” Jamison says.
Self-medication through alcohol and/or drugs is common as a means of elevating or sedating moods, which can swing wildly. Heredity plays a major role and, Jamison says, “if there is a genetic predisposition on both sides of the family, generally, the onset (of illness) will be earlier. The average age of bipolar illness is 17 or 18. It’s very important for parents to be aware and communicate to their children, ‘Look, this runs in our family.’ ”
Need help or advice? Access the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Web site at dbsalliance.org. If you know anyone with thoughts of death or suicide, call 800-273-TALK.
–By Jon Saraceno
Symptoms of mania include extreme excitability, irritability — even excessive shopping. Severe depression can be accompanied by sleepless nights, suicidal thoughts and, as Marisa Robbins, 33, discovered nearly a decade ago, bizarre and delusional behavior. She never will forget her silent horror after arriving to retrieve her broken boyfriend, a lovable bear of a man who became her husband and father of two girls.
In 1996, during his second year in the NFL, Robbins was sent home from Denver by the Raiders when he was found dazed and confused the day before a game. Mumbling incoherently, he followed a reporter to his room at the team hotel. He did not know what city he was in — or his coach’s name. Unfortunately, he had no wallet or money and his connecting flight put him in Salt Lake City, where he failed to pay for a meal and was arrested.
“When I got there, he had peas in his ears from his meal the night before. He was saving them for me,” his wife says, so matter-of-factly that a listener in her California home asks her to repeat the startling description. “He recognized me for an instant and said, ‘I knew you would come to save me.’ The next moment he was talking to me like I was one of his college teachers — ‘How about that test today?’ Then it was like I was his friend Jimmy (Newell): ‘What are we going to do today, Jimbo?’ ”
After Marisa bailed him out, the pair drove to the airport for a flight home to Oakland. “Each time we’d get to a stoplight, he’d open the door and say, ‘Thanks for the ride,’ and try to get out,” she recalls.
Robbins missed the Raiders’ next game. The team told reporters his medical problem was “influenza syndrome.” Of course, it was not.
The music of life searing through Robbins’ chemically unbalanced mind was alternately melodious and discordant, a la Hendrix’s famous ode to the infamous illness.
Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just don’t know
How to go about gettin’ it
Feeling, sweet feeling
Drops from fingers, fingers
Manic depression is catchin’ my soul …
Yes, everything’s bigger in Texas — especially the football beef. At Sharpstown High in Houston, Robbins was a whopper at 293 pounds. He was extremely athletic considering his hanging-slab-of-meat size. He could dunk a basketball and run 40 yards in 5.1 seconds.
“Once, I saw this boy try to steal home on him (as a catcher). ‘Course, he almost killed the kid,” says Bobby Plummer, the football coach at Sharpstown for 29 seasons. “A few innings later, the same kid tried it again. He ran full speed until he got about 10 feet from Barret and just stopped. Hell, he wasn’t going to hit that wall again.”
Robbins was popular with teammates, coaches and teachers and attended Fellowship of Christian Athletes meetings. He was a loving son to his mother, Kaye, who adored and spoiled him. As a young child, he repeatedly asked his parents if he could sleep with them. After they shooed him from their bedroom a couple of times, they finally would acquiesce and Robbins would gleefully exclaim, “Oh, tank you, mama! Tank you, mama!’ ”
As a senior in high school, Robbins assisted mentally and physically challenged children in phys-ed class. They called him “Big Bear.”
He had one goal in life:
Playing in the NFL.
Alcohol, steroids and depression
He attended Texas Christian University, where he majored in physical education but didn’t graduate. Robbins received no other scholarship offers, according to Plummer, a TCU graduate who telephoned his alma mater’s recruiting coordinator and said, “I’ve got the best football player I’ve ever had,” but one unnoticed on a so-so team.
It was about that time Plummer noticed something else: “I’m pretty sure he drank quite a bit in high school. But I tell you what, there was a bunch of them that did.”
Young Barret sampled alcohol in his parents’ home — with consent.
“His (father) would give him a little drink of beer when he was little,” says Zula Crosby, Robbins’ maternal grandmother. Her late daughter, Kaye, drank and suffered depression. And Robbins’ aunt, Ann Crosby, recently was diagnosed as bipolar. After a divorce from Dean “Rob” Robbins, Kaye stayed single.
Today, Robbins’ half-brother, Scotty, 40, has stopped drinking. He would like his big brother to do the same because, as he says, “I think Barret’s main issue is alcohol. All the men on our side of the family love to drink. The hardest thing for Barret is that he doesn’t understand yet he just can’t do it.”
An estimated 60% of those with bipolar disorder abuse alcohol or drugs. Scotty, who has the same father as Barret, remembers drinking with his dad as a young teen.
“I don’t think (my parents) understood the seriousness of it, even though there’s alcoholism on my father’s side. It wasn’t like they were encouraging it; I just think they thought it was kind of funny.”
In addition to drinking in college, Robbins began using at least one other potentially dangerous drug — steroids. “He would tell me, ‘Dad, I don’t need that stuff,’ ” Rob says.
At TCU, Robbins bulked up his strapping physique by cycling steroids, his wife says. A turbo-boost to his aggressiveness was rewarded: He was named the Horned Frogs’ Davey O’Brien Fightin’est Player.
“If you have a genetic vulnerability to bipolar illness, any drug abuse — but particularly something like steroids — not only brings it on earlier, it worsens its course and makes it (harder) to treat,” says bipolar expert Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.
While at TCU, Robbins was hospitalized for depression in Fort Worth, his family says. Although details are sketchy, he was found wandering on the lot of an auto dealership, arrested, placed under observation and given antipsychotic drugs. The family convened with doctors at the hospital, along with TCU head coach Pat Sullivan. Now at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Sullivan did not return phone calls from USA TODAY.
“When (Barret) was at TCU, he was taking steroids, and it affected him,” his grandmother says. “We were there and saw it. They had him in the hospital, and he wanted out. The coach was with us. They called Kaye in a room to talk with her. I remember Barret looking in the door and seeing her in there.
” ‘Mama, I love you and I always will,’ ” he told her.
When she died in 1999, her youngest son couldn’t bear the torment. He told his brother, ” ‘When Mom died, a big part of me went with her,’ ” Scotty recalls.
“I was with him at the hospital when she died. He squalled like a baby. It was bad,” he says. “I think Barret could’ve maybe had a better sense of coping had he not lost her. That was a huge deal for him.”
Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain
You make love, you break love
It’s all the same
When it’s, when it’s over, mama
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess …
Barret met Marisa, then a hairdresser, during his rookie camp in 1995 at a cantina near her home in Calabasas, Calif. Like the Raiders, who selected him in the second round, she took an immediate liking to the big fella, who liked all music but especially the blues.
“He was charming and friendly, a happy, loving guy,” she says. “He had friends everywhere. He was very open to people. That’s one of the things I liked about him. And he was very respectful.”
They married in 1997 and bought a home in Pleasanton, Calif. Robbins frolicked with their dogs, swam with the girls and played golf when his knees didn’t ache.
By Dan McMedan, USA TODAY
Marisa Robbins, the estranged wife of Barret Robbins, recently got a restraining order on the advice of her lawyer and her husband’s therapist. “We were hoping it would urge him to see he needed to get treatment,” she says.
His wife says he often played football in pain and took painkilling injections before games. He had total right knee reconstruction in 2001 and eventually asked for his release last summer because, as she says, “He failed his physical and had knowingly failed a couple of other tests, and he didn’t know if there were going to be other things that would be coming out, too.”
During his final season in 2003, he took a salary cut from $3.2 million to $1 million. Though he had chronic pain and walked with a limp, he planned to lose weight for a comeback attempt in 2005.
There were ups and downs in their relationship, but even after she knew her husband for years, Marisa says, “I never, ever thought, ‘Boy, this dude ain’t right.’ But there would be times when he just couldn’t get up and get out of bed. He would say, ‘I just don’t feel good, baby.’ And there were other times when he never felt better.”
Perhaps the Raiders should have suspected something was seriously amiss before he was drafted. Asked if he knew of Robbins’ past, Bruce Allen, then a Raiders senior assistant, says, “Let me just say it this way: We’re aware of everything. In this era, it’s almost impossible to get away with running a stop sign.”
Silver and black, turning blue
Robbins fit the silver-and-black blueprint, and the Raiders, who have gambled on players many times, made him the league’s 49th overall draft choice.
“He fit the mold of what we were looking for — a big, physical, very tough football player,” Allen says.
Indeed. In 1998, Robbins was ejected from a game against Baltimore after kicking tough-guy Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis — in the head. By then, he already had quite a reputation for boozing, too.
Citing legal reasons, Allen refuses to discuss the specifics of how the Raiders helped Robbins, who had frequent, unexplained absences in 2002. The next year, it was revealed he tested positive for the designer steroid THG. The news leak “crushed” him, Marisa says. He subsequently was fined three game checks by the NFL. When Allen heard the former Raider had been shot by police, he cringed.
“You watch the news every night and there’s a bad story,” Allen says. “This one had a face, and you knew the face. You knew the person.”
Robbins’ father thought he knew his son, too, but says, “He would tell you everything you wanted to hear, but when you’re not with him, he gets in some sort of mood.”
Marisa thought she knew her husband, too.
Sure, he liked to super-size his screwdrivers and loved his Miller Lite. And sometimes he chewed tobacco and lit up a cigarette — or, more to his liking, he smoked pot. He spent nearly a month at the Betty Ford Clinic after his humiliation at the Super Bowl, although doctors wanted him to stay longer. Robbins refused but adamantly maintained he never would do anything again to embarrass himself.
He stopped drinking but resumed in March after he agreed to let his wife monitor his consumption. Soon there were tip-offs.
“He would talk a little faster. Some of his ideas were faster and he would even drive faster,” she says of the creeping mania. “He’d start listening to his louder, hard-core rap music. As it progressed, I could actually see a difference in his body language. He sometimes got fidgety and would have these rapid movements with his hands. He started spending more, wanting to put $7,000 in a sound system and a TV in his Mercedes.”
When she delicately broached the topic, her husband became upset. He would make appointments with his therapist and not show.
He began skipping his medication: Depakote, an anticonvulsant used for mood swings; Risperdal, an antipsychotic, and Wellbutrin, an antidepressant. He and Marisa began to argue more loudly. He would send her vulgar text messages on her cell phone.
His agent, Drew Pittman, and former Raiders teammates such as Steve Wisniewski, Robert Jenkins and pastor Napoleon Kaufman tried to help Robbins deal with life on a higher, more spiritual plane.
“One day, Wiz, me and Barret had a ‘Come to Jesus’ meeting,” Pittman says. “Marisa has been through hell and back. But she doesn’t blame Barret.”
Nothing seized his attention — until last summer. His wife moved out and took their girls, 4 and 6, from the Bay Area back to Southern California. She filed for divorce in November. After he was accused of striking a security guard and charged with drunk and disorderly conduct in December, she got a restraining order on the advice of her lawyer and Robbins’ therapist.
He had begun sharing suicidal thoughts with his wife. And he was found wandering the parking lot of a psychiatric center. He badly missed his girls, buying them Christmas presents he would not be allowed to personally deliver.
“We were hoping it would urge him to see he needed to get treatment, that he needed to be sober,” Marisa says. “He didn’t deserve to have his girls grow up and see him that way. They love their daddy. But he just got angry with me.”
Finally, Robbins agreed to make plans to go to a treatment center in Malibu, Calif. But before completing a three-day mental evaluation after his arrest in San Francisco, he walked out. Within days, he was gone, off to Florida on a 10-day trip that would forever change his life.
Well, I think I’ll go turn myself off
And go on down
All the way down
Really ain’t no use in me hangin’ around
In your kinda scene …
Robbins soon found his slice of blurry, alcohol-hazed heaven: decadent South Beach.
His friend of more than 25 years, Jimmy Newell, was in Miami and his good bud decided to join him. Robbins talked about the two flying off to Jamaica, but instead they stayed at the Loews Hotel and barhopped for two nights. At the time, Robbins was frustrated because he didn’t have the proper attire to be admitted into the hottest clubs.
Newell also recalls his friend being agitated one morning regarding his wife’s restraining order. Off his medication, drinking heavily and without much sleep, Robbins found himself alone when his buddy flew back to Los Angeles.
“I don’t feel responsible because everyone’s their own person,” says Newell, the best man in Robbins’ wedding who has incurred the wrath of the family. “But I definitely wish I would’ve stayed — things would’ve been different. I’m not sure exactly what was going on in Barret’s head.”
Going south, in a hurry
The week of the shooting, Robbins repeatedly called his wife and father, sounding quite unstable. Finally, his aunt Ann got on a plane with a cousin to try to coax him home. She told her nephew she was coming to Florida. He kept changing hotels to dodge her.
“Then I saw this bar on the corner and told my cousin, ‘He’s in there.’ There were scantily clad women dancing on the bar. He was sitting right there. I pulled him outside and said, ‘Are you coming home with me?’ ”
He said he didn’t know. He looked different to her with his long, curly hair and glasses.
“I held his face in my hands and said, ‘You look so good to me, but I’m worried about you.’ But he wouldn’t come. I asked him if he was on his meds and he said, ‘Yes.’ But I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was lying through his teeth. I made him kiss me and I got a hug. Then he walked back into the bar and I came home.”
Two nights later, police responded to a burglary call in an office building housing a nightclub and discovered Robbins, minus his shoes, crouching on a toilet to avoid detection in a women’s restroom stall. At first he cooperated, but then he became agitated when a uniformed officer told him to put his hands on the wall, police say.
They say three officers tussled with Robbins, who body-slammed at least two of them and tried to reach for their guns. Five shots were fired by Officer Michael Muley and two struck the former player. Police say Robbins began laughing and cursing after the attack and continued to struggle as he was being loaded into an ambulance.
The state attorney’s office is investigating. Formal charges are pending. Robbins’ attorney, Ed O’Donnell, has been unable to meet, much less speak, with his client, who is in stable condition.
Marisa flew to Florida, where she found her estranged husband looking “like he was on his deathbed,” arms and hands tied down with a strap across his chest. Tubes ran from his nose and arms, and his head and legs were immobilized to prevent him from tearing off stuff.
On a wall near his brother’s bed inside the trauma center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Scotty has taped a photograph of the brothers and their father during happier days, times also shared by a devastated but strong woman.
“It’s very sad and poetic to see him lying in his hospital that way, because that’s exactly how his mother looked when she died,” Marisa says, her eyes beginning to tear. “It breaks my heart to see him like that. I know he missed us; I know he was lonely. He didn’t want to live without us. He would tell me, ‘I’ll get this straight, I’ll be OK.’
“I want to remind everyone that Barret is not a bad man. He’s not a potential murderer, he’s not a burglar and he’s not a vandal.
“He is a sick man.”
September 26th, 2012 at 2:34 am
He got a year and half for going after three cops in Miami?
What did he get for not showing up to the fuk’n Superbowl?
September 26th, 2012 at 2:43 am
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
18.RaiderLen Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Goldie7 Says:
September 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Who’s the ederly man in the video pic.? Oh my bad that’s Barret Robbins. Darn…he was in prision this long? Yep…abuse of drugs and alcohol was the reason he didn’t show up to the SB game against the Bucs. You would think after being in prision this amount of time…he would be sorta humble. You think?
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The Guy is certifiable. He needs meds.
Raiders new this, and monitored.
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Yeah…really sad. Did they forgot to monitor him on SB morning?
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Barret freaked out after Callahan changed the gameplan two days before the game and without giving the players any time to practice.
Barret was frustrated and stressed and went off his meds. He then ended up in TJ where he was celebrating the SB win he thought we’d already done. Tim Brown and other players still blame Callahan for the whole thing. They think Callahan threw the game to get back at Al Davis. The Raiders org was well aware of Barret’s bi-polar disorder and issues. They monitored him the best they could.
Who knows what conspiracy theories are out there. Jon Gruden knew Barret’s weaknesses more than anyone. If Bellicheat got caught cheating for what is pretty routine around the league and Al never used computers in the scouting dept for fear of espionage, then who knows what these NFL teams are willing to do to exploit weaknesses of players if a SB is on the line.
I think there is a game behind the game that is so nefarious the media could never report on it.
As for the cop beating incident… Am I not the only one that feels ZERO sympathy for the cops? Especially a MOTORCYCLE COP, whom happen to be the biggest A-h0les on the planet. Fvck the police.
September 26th, 2012 at 4:10 am
Vic So’oto added
Carl Iheanacho dropped
Tori Gurley added
Vaughn Meatoga dropped
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Reggie still making post 53man roster moves
any of them good ones??
re-sign Johnnie Lee Higgins !!
September 26th, 2012 at 4:11 am
The Oakland Packers
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LOL @ Thec!!
sure seems that way
September 26th, 2012 at 4:12 am
Hey, maybe we’ll finally sign Cedric Benson after the Packers are done with him ??
September 26th, 2012 at 4:18 am
Bucs sign Roscoe Parrish (LOL!)
Redskins ink RB Ryan Grant [sorry G123]
September 26th, 2012 at 5:01 am
Im reviewing the game tape. Report coming soon.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:09 am
I rewatched the game rewind thing yesterday.
Huge KO return by Goodson, completely changed an ugle scene (being down 10 in the 3rd quarter) to a positive with a 54 yard return.
Also, we need an upgrade at S. MM34 see’s the field for two snaps and gets picked on for a first. Gio brings energy, but he can’t cover. Branch is good in the box, but not really anywhere else. Huff is a jack-of-all-trades, master at none.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:18 am
Good morning. Backstagepuppetshow sure is a moron.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:23 am
Backstagepuppetshow sure is a moron.
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I am going to laugh at him and others, if we can squeek out a playoff appearance in Reggie’s first year, while slashing salary and picking up low-level FA’s and practice squad guys.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:41 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:09 am
I rewatched the game rewind thing yesterday.
Huge KO return by Goodson, completely changed an ugle scene (being down 10 in the 3rd quarter) to a positive with a 54 yard return.
Also, we need an upgrade at S. MM34 see’s the field for two snaps and gets picked on for a first. Gio brings energy, but he can’t cover. Branch is good in the box, but not really anywhere else. Huff is a jack-of-all-trades, master at none.
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Im seeing the same stuff.
Here’s my report so far, Im at halftime.
PITT REPORT
Im watching this game with the DT’s and DE’s under the microscope. Also looking to see what went right with the O-Line and what is the issue with our receiving corps, are they getting mugged downfield or are their routes or are they still running sloppy routes. Also, Special Teams was worlds better this game. Is Hoffman off the hot seat?
Here we go:
Opening defensive series… D was excellent. DT’s getting good push and DE’s were actually hurrying Big Ben. Our DBs need to be more aggressive. We got exploited on that pick play but oh well. Huff blew his coverage on the TD. There was going to be a adjustment curve for him changing positions, we know that and accept it.
McFadden’s long run… More impressive than DHB’s blocking was the way he sold the route. The CB thought it was a go route and wasnt even looking into the backfield. By the time the CB realized that it was not a pass play, DMC was already blowing by. All blocking aside, if DHB doesnt sell this, the CB breaks up the run. These are the LITTLE things that cause breakdowns in a defense that result in a huge play. The other major breakdown on Pitt was that the ILB completely missed his gap and left a gapping hole for DMC to run thru. Normally these are the types of mistakes we are making. Big plays dont happen without big breakdowns. The line did good in not getting pushed back like in previous weeks, that is a major improvement. But that play only goes for 4 yards if the ILB doesnt screw up. That is the benefit of the ZBS, it forces the LB’s to commit to a gap before the RB has too, thus giving the RB the advantage.
HC – We won the penalty and turnover battle. That usually equals a win in the NFL. Credit DA here. But when the old refs come back, its gonna get ugly for us because the biases will be back also. I dont really see us taking advantage of the replacement refs like most teams seem to be coached into doing. This is hurting us now but will pay dividends once Pete Rozelle’s thugs come back. And for all you idiots that wanted more aggressiveness and creativity, how about going for it on 4th that early in the game that far in the red zone?
OC – I know you monkeys dont want to admit it, but Knapp called the same plays he always did. Give the credit where it is due. He called McFadden’s big run. DMC said it in the press conference. It’s amazing what our O can do when the lineman actually block. But the jackals here will still ignore it, just like when they tried to give Palmer the credit instead of Knapp for the big run, as if they were in the huddle and knew the call. An agenda will make you see only what you want to see.
DC – Tarver’s gameplan was solid. Lots of zone. Dont give up a big play. Bring pressure as the game progressed. It will be interesting to see what he dials up for Peyton.
QB – Palmer was killing it. A+. Nothing more to say here.
RB – If you were one of the people calling to trade DMC, slap yourself. If you were one of the people calling for Goodson to start, castrate yourself and save the gene pool.
WR – Still too many drops on catchable balls by this unit. Pitt’s DB’s were mauling our guys during their routes. Credit them for taking advantage of the refs.
TE – Meyers and Aus are GREAT in the passing game. But the blocking is still a major concern and needs improvement. We wont be able to attack the edges until this unit improves drastically.
OLine – Night and day difference. Briesel was a completely different player. Our line also got push and was changing the line of scrimmage for the first time this year. Maybe we should be giving massive credit to the lines of Miami and SanDiusky for making us look so bad? Or maybe our Line is finally starting to gel and get it figured out. Either way, Pitt got manhandled.
DLine – Kelly is routinely double teamed. When he isnt, he is getting great push into the QB. DE’s were active, Ben is just great at getting rid of the ball. If we get the same effort out of this unit in Dungver, Manning will have lots of trouble. The contingent of semi’s here that are hating Seymore and Kelly are seriously mistaken. These guys are playing VERY well. ShoNasty is still pretty invisible. He’s got to go up against the LT which is generally the best lineman. But he was supposed to have a breakout year. We are still waiting.
LBs – Wheeler is the best player on D this year. He is involved on so many plays and saved us multiple times during the game where we were beat. Our LB core is rock solid when we do our jobs. Burris is getting better with every play. He gets better as he settles down. And you can see RoMac’s play improve as well when he’s not worried about Burris. Tollefson is non-existent at this point.
DBs – Gio’s play recognition and reaction speed is excellent. Not so good on the anticipation early on but he grows more aggressive as the game goes on. Huff has to be more aggressive, I expect he will as he grows into the position.
Special Teams – new punt returner Adams is the best we’ve had since JLH. We got lucking on the TD punt return that was called back. But overall, this unit was almost as improved as our other highly improved unit, the OLine.
Replacement Refs – Its 70s football for now. Im loving that we arent getting the bias against us. But when the old guys return, expect us to be getting those 5-6 head scratching penalties a game back. The good thing is that DA has us at around only 3-5 of our own penalties a game. Kelly isnt jumping offsides anymore and yet he’s still getting a good jump on the snap.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:46 am
Kelly is routinely double teamed. When he isnt, he is getting great push into the QB.
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I was rewatching the rewind on NFLN, so you get about 75% of the plays, but I didn’t see him getting double-teamed that much.
I truly believe that was one of TK’s worst games in years, but I am no “film” guru. You can’t just let the defense do what they want with you. If they single you, you have to make a play (he didn’t). If you get double-teamed, you can’t let them shove you right out of the passing windows, as they did a few times, when he was shoved completely out of the pocket.
Need better from him. Seymour was pushing the pocket, making a few plays, being around the ball-carrier.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:49 am
But the jackals here will still ignore it, just like when they tried to give Palmer the credit instead of Knapp for the big run,
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I loved that, lol.
As if Carson scrapped the play-call and drew things up in the dirt. And I am sure it was a GREGG KNAPP PLAN to have Carson make more line calls and stuff, since it was now the second game for Wiz (which has to help) and also D-Moore.
And when he “switched” a play, guess what he switched it to? Another Gregg Knapp play.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:51 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:49 am
But the jackals here will still ignore it, just like when they tried to give Palmer the credit instead of Knapp for the big run,
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I loved that, lol.
As if Carson scrapped the play-call and drew things up in the dirt. And I am sure it was a GREGG KNAPP PLAN to have Carson make more line calls and stuff, since it was now the second game for Wiz (which has to help) and also D-Moore.
And when he “switched” a play, guess what he switched it to? Another Gregg Knapp play.
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Knapp is still NOT the answer.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:52 am
September 26th, 2012 at 5:46 am
Kelly is routinely double teamed. When he isnt, he is getting great push into the QB.
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I was rewatching the rewind on NFLN, so you get about 75% of the plays, but I didn’t see him getting double-teamed that much.
I truly believe that was one of TK’s worst games in years, but I am no “film” guru. You can’t just let the defense do what they want with you. If they single you, you have to make a play (he didn’t). If you get double-teamed, you can’t let them shove you right out of the passing windows, as they did a few times, when he was shoved completely out of the pocket.
Need better from him. Seymour was pushing the pocket, making a few plays, being around the ball-carrier.
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I’d love to watch the replay with you then. Im watching it now. Rewinding ever play 2-3 times.
Kelly gets great push when singled. Big Ben was just getting the ball off super quick and picking apart our soft zone.
The problem is when they have a RB or TE stay into block and that allows both Seymore and Kelly to get doubled up. Im just not seeing enough out of Houston or Shonasty. They are getting push on some plays and were active early on, but never really had an impact.
I dunno. Im going to have to disagree with you. Kelly is playing well in my eyes. And you know how critical I can be on Kelly.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:59 am
Im just not seeing enough out of Houston or Shonasty.
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Can agree there.
There was one play in the first half where Houston was outside and singled up, and he got a decent push, but then was stone-walled, and was basically jumping around trying to swing his arms at Ben, only the T just clamped on and Houston looked like a little brother, just swinging and fighting, but literally not moving forward an inch.
Need speed-rushers, and Toffy ain’t doing it week to week.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:59 am
Raiderbuck Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:51 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:49 am
But the jackals here will still ignore it, just like when they tried to give Palmer the credit instead of Knapp for the big run,
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I loved that, lol.
As if Carson scrapped the play-call and drew things up in the dirt. And I am sure it was a GREGG KNAPP PLAN to have Carson make more line calls and stuff, since it was now the second game for Wiz (which has to help) and also D-Moore.
And when he “switched” a play, guess what he switched it to? Another Gregg Knapp play.
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Knapp is still NOT the answer.
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Yeah ok. How many redzone TDs did we have last week?
All brilliant play designs. Especially the Gordon TD.
It’s amazing what a team looks like when the players actually block and catch the ball.
September 26th, 2012 at 6:02 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:59 am
Im just not seeing enough out of Houston or Shonasty.
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Can agree there.
There was one play in the first half where Houston was outside and singled up, and he got a decent push, but then was stone-walled, and was basically jumping around trying to swing his arms at Ben, only the T just clamped on and Houston looked like a little brother, just swinging and fighting, but literally not moving forward an inch.
Need speed-rushers, and Toffy ain’t doing it week to week.
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Agreed.
If a DT is getting good push and disrupting the integrity of a pocket, he’s done his job. A guy like Sapp that can get 10 sacks a year is a once in a lifetime player.
But a DE has to be able to force sacks when singled up on. I know it was Big Ben and they were told to contain him. But its been the same story for 3 weeks now. Rivers is far from mobile and our DE’s were non-existent in that game.
1st rd draft pick next year has to be a game changing DE. Raider O says it, I think youre saying it, and now Im endorsing it.
September 26th, 2012 at 6:15 am
Raider Riff Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:59 am
Raiderbuck Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:51 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:49 am
But the jackals here will still ignore it, just like when they tried to give Palmer the credit instead of Knapp for the big run,
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I loved that, lol.
As if Carson scrapped the play-call and drew things up in the dirt. And I am sure it was a GREGG KNAPP PLAN to have Carson make more line calls and stuff, since it was now the second game for Wiz (which has to help) and also D-Moore.
And when he “switched” a play, guess what he switched it to? Another Gregg Knapp play.
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Knapp is still NOT the answer.
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Yeah ok. How many redzone TDs did we have last week?
All brilliant play designs. Especially the Gordon TD.
It’s amazing what a team looks like when the players actually block and catch the ball.
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Agreed, but we are the opposite of Meat Loaf 2/3 time we didn’t do anything but look like we suited up the cheerleaders.
He’s got a LONG way to go to prove anything to me.
September 26th, 2012 at 6:25 am
Good Morning Nation!!!
WHo’s this So’oto kid? Any good?
September 26th, 2012 at 6:49 am
Mornin Tori Gurley WR too
September 26th, 2012 at 6:50 am
Saw that last night as well…who’s that? Are they both from GB?
September 26th, 2012 at 6:57 am
Both off GB practice squad
September 26th, 2012 at 6:59 am
Article from Grantland about going to a Raiders game:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8423958/a-visit-oco-coliseum-raiders-steelers-game
September 26th, 2012 at 6:59 am
Shocker, we sign more ex-Packers.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:00 am
LOL
“But then a friend of mine broke the spell. “I didn’t peg SKULLMAN for a Blue Moon guy,” he said, pointing out the telltale bottle that SKULLMAN was holding in his spiked-leather-gloved hand. “That doesn’t seem very hard-core.”
Raider Nation, as it turns out, might just be like us.”
September 26th, 2012 at 7:05 am
“Before we parted ways to go to our seats, I asked a friend of mine who has season tickets if there were any concessions food he’d recommend. He was silent for a minute.
“Honestly, I can’t think of any,” he said.”
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When I went last year. I had the nachos.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:14 am
Hey, the chicken nachos is good, but $8! Behind where we sit, there’s a stand that sells a double decker grilled cheese sandwhich that’s good as well!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:25 am
Do they let you bring your own food to the Coliseum these days?…If not perhaps a foot long sub hidden in one’s pants?…Don’t think they’d want to go there.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:27 am
The Gorilla Rilla wedding video is pretty amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rR1FHjev_QU
September 26th, 2012 at 7:27 am
hwnrdr Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:25 am
Good Morning Nation!!!
WHo’s this So’oto kid? Any good?
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Well, he was a preseason phenom last yr. at GB…a LOCK to make the roster there. He returned int. for a td in a game and was impressive. Then…he injured his back and didn’t play during reg season, then was cut recently in lieu of GB drafting so many defensive players and Ted Thompson wanting HIS guys in there.
Apparently now he’s healthy. His big skils are instinct…and being a good pass rusher.
Drawback, and what I hear is what Ted Thompson may have concerns about is the fact he was injured 2 of his 4 yrs. at BYU and the fact he had the back injury last yr. It’s a concern for us as well, but healthy??? he could be a steal imo.
Yes, there is a little kool aid in that analysis.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:29 am
Thanks Johnny!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:31 am
…also on So’oto I saw a Packer blog where they had a big story on him and the fans were blogging that he was a big time stud and “just what the Packers need” to shore up their D.
One blogger said “Every good team needs one bad ass Samoan…now we’ve got ours”.
He was generally thought of as a guy who would get significant playing time…BEFORE his back injury. General thought was that THIS yr. he was simply odd man out.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:34 am
Hopefully he works out for us! I guess more reason for GB fans to be upset!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:41 am
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:27 am
The Gorilla Rilla wedding video is pretty amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rR1FHjev_QU
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I’m going to have to talk to the wife about redoing are wedding!
Coolest wedding ever!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:42 am
Adam Caplan @caplannfl
The #Raiders waived 2011 third-round pick OT Joe Barksdale today, per source. Eligible to be claimed off waivers on Thursday.
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Many saw this one coming.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:43 am
Morning Fellas
September 26th, 2012 at 7:45 am
hwnrdr Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:34 am
Hopefully he works out for us! I guess more reason for GB fans to be upset!
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Yeah. I live right on the edge of Packerland and go to Wisconsin regularly and I can tell you the Packers are EVERYTHNG in Wisconsin.
The Packers define their identity as human beings…
September 26th, 2012 at 7:46 am
The Packers define their identity as human beings…
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And here I thought it was the cheese curd all this time.lol
September 26th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Barksdale being cut was pretty obvious. Another Al pick gone.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Barksdale wasn’t developing…Couldn’t even get on the field when injuries cropped up…No loss.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:47 am
CanuckRaider Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Barksdale wasn’t developing…Couldn’t even get on the field when injuries cropped up…No loss.
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True
September 26th, 2012 at 7:47 am
He can go to Carolina and guard the training table with Campbell.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:48 am
Good Luck Bazooka Joe!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:50 am
I predict Barksdale ends up with Bears at some point.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:50 am
DJ Johnny Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:45 am
hwnrdr Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:34 am
Hopefully he works out for us! I guess more reason for GB fans to be upset!
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Yeah. I live right on the edge of Packerland and go to Wisconsin regularly and I can tell you the Packers are EVERYTHNG in Wisconsin.
The Packers define their identity as human beings…
LOL, that is why that “discount double check” commercials seem funny to me. Hello, if you live in Wisconsin and don’t know who Aaron Rodgers is…the guy that makes the commecial is that cheese head outside…”Rod-gers”!!!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:51 am
CanuckRaider Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:47 am
He can go to Carolina and guard the training table with Campbell.
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lol.
I really wanted Beast to develop here. Oh well.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:52 am
RaiderLen Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:42 am
Adam Caplan @caplannfl
The #Raiders waived 2011 third-round pick OT Joe Barksdale today, per source. Eligible to be claimed off waivers on Thursday.
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Many saw this one coming.
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Now I can finally stop following this clown on twitter.
Barksdale had every shot to prove he could play for us in this league. Oh well.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:52 am
I just hope that all the moves they are doing helps us and not hurt us! We shall see!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:53 am
I had hopes for both of them too Len…C’est la vie.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:53 am
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Barksdale being cut was pretty obvious. Another Al pick gone.
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Plenty of Al picks still on this roster. Lets not be too harsh.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:53 am
LOL, that is why that “discount double check” commercials seem funny to me. Hello, if you live in Wisconsin and don’t know who Aaron Rodgers is…the guy that makes the commecial is that cheese head outside…”Rod-gers”!!!
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Ha! I like Raji as well. Pretty funny.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:53 am
Its just the scholarship guys that are getting the boot.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:54 am
The discount double check with BJ Raji gets me in tears every time.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:55 am
At this rate we’ll only need to purge 1/3 of the roster come off-season according to Corkie’s calculations.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:55 am
Barksdale wasn’t mobile enough to play guard, but couldn’t pass-block well enough to play tackle. C’est la vie.
September 26th, 2012 at 7:55 am
RaiderLen Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:53 am
LOL, that is why that “discount double check” commercials seem funny to me. Hello, if you live in Wisconsin and don’t know who Aaron Rodgers is…the guy that makes the commecial is that cheese head outside…”Rod-gers”!!!
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Ha! I like Raji as well. Pretty funny.
“Hit it Raji” LOL!
September 26th, 2012 at 7:56 am
That guy at the end of the Cheesehead commercials is hilarious.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:00 am
CanuckRaider Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:56 am
That guy at the end of the Cheesehead commercials is hilarious.
Yup! LOL
September 26th, 2012 at 8:03 am
Raider Riff Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:53 am
Albert Bigelow Paine Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Barksdale being cut was pretty obvious. Another Al pick gone.
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Plenty of Al picks still on this roster. Lets not be too harsh.
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I’m just starting the countdown.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:03 am
The Packers define their identity as human beings…
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As the Raiders do us.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:05 am
How long till we see a Raider fan wearing a silver cheese head.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:06 am
“Come on, you said you were a “dancer” (jazz hands)”
Gets me every time
September 26th, 2012 at 8:07 am
That guy at the end of the Cheesehead commercials is hilarious.
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The guy at the end of the Raji commercial played a pedophile on SVU a few times.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:08 am
I wouldn’t be suprised if Barksdale just quit and went on to the next stage in life. He is a very smart guy, he can make decent money without being jerked around from one roster to the next.
Not enough passion for football. It was obvious during the Senior Bowl and his time here.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:10 am
So Al traded our 2012 second-round pick for Barksdale (who’s gone) and Taiwan Jones (who our coach doesn’t trust with the ball).
Al, we loved you, but…GEEZ.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:10 am
hwnrdr Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:25 am
Good Morning Nation!!!
WHo’s this So’oto kid? Any good?
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Pronounced So-otto. Miscast at BYU, he is from So Cal a cousin of Seau. Came in as a TE and then went to defense. BYU just never really knew what to do with him. Good size at 6′3″ 260, 4.65 speed which is ridiculous, and 35 bench reps which is a lot. Was not invited to either the Senior Bowl or combine which would have boosted his stock. In the last preseason game for GB against the KC ones he had a very very good game with a sack, a forced fumble and an INT for a touch down. Kid has skills, basically just a bull rush pass move. I have hope for this guy. Seems like he can play and we DESPERATELY need pass rushers.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:11 am
CanuckRaider Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:55 am
At this rate we’ll only need to purge 1/3 of the roster come off-season according to Corkie’s calculations.
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Considering that 25% turnover is standard. A 33% turnover for our team would be very fortunate for us. Especially considering our rumored cap issues on the horizon.
Reggie is going to have to get some major players to restructure this offseason. A winning season will go a long ways towards making that happen.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:11 am
Tori Gurley @TGurley81
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Lets get it!
September 26th, 2012 at 8:12 am
That Barksdale, Taiwan, DVD middle of the draft is looking epicly laughable.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:13 am
RaiderDuck Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:10 am
So Al traded our 2012 second-round pick for Barksdale (who’s gone) and Taiwan Jones (who our coach doesn’t trust with the ball).
Al, we loved you, but…GEEZ.
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This is what Reggie is working with. All the Reggie haters need to STFU!
September 26th, 2012 at 8:13 am
I think Taiwan Jones still has potential. He could be amazing in the open field.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:14 am
I look forward to The Reggie having a little coin in the future to spend on players.
We will get more talented versions of guys like Wheeler.
Ever notice, that he never really celebrates anything he does, and more celebrates when his teammates do well?
That is the new Raider player.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:14 am
RaiderDuck Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:10 am
So Al traded our 2012 second-round pick for Barksdale (who’s gone) and Taiwan Jones (who our coach doesn’t trust with the ball).
Al, we loved you, but…GEEZ.
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The whole “TJ lost the trust of the coach” talk is just BS started here by semi’s out to get DA.
The kid has had some badly hurt ribs the last two weeks. Anyone that has ever suffered a rib injury knows how long they take to heal.
TJ will get some carries again once he’s 100%
September 26th, 2012 at 8:16 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:14 am
I look forward to The Reggie having a little coin in the future to spend on players.
We will get more talented versions of guys like Wheeler.
Ever notice, that he never really celebrates anything he does, and more celebrates when his teammates do well?
That is the new Raider player.
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I have a serious man-crush on Wheeler.
A few semi’s questioned me in the offseason when I said that Wheeler and Burris would make our LB corps, and RoMac, better because they were smarter players than the “athletes” weve had in the past. How right I was.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:17 am
Taiwan is playing some special teams though, so his ribs can’t be THAT BAD.
He just isn’t THAT GOOD, unfortunately.
He can’t block, catch, or run between the tackles.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:19 am
McFadden will probably be hurt at some point. We will see Jones then.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:21 am
Good Morning Raider Nation!
September 26th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Just Fire Baby Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:17 am
Taiwan is playing some special teams though, so his ribs can’t be THAT BAD.
He just isn’t THAT GOOD, unfortunately.
He can’t block, catch, or run between the tackles.
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He didnt finish the Fins game and Im not sure he was in on every play with Pitt. I’ll check the tape again tomorrow. I’d hate to see this kid take any unnecessary beating from the semi’s if he’s out there playing hurt.
Since when cant he catch?
Cant be any worse a blocker than Goodson.
And I dont think his running between the tackles is that bad. He’s shifty in a Harvey Williams sort of way. I like the way he runs. I we were to judge him on how poorly our OLine started the preseason and reg season, well then we wouldnt be very high on DMC either.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:27 am
The Robbins story is a sad one. Mental health issues and addictions are nothing to scorn or laugh at. That guy has had a very rough ride, best of luck to him.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Raiders waived OT Joseph Barksdale.
New GM Reggie McKenzie continues to clean up the old regime’s mess. Barksdale was a 2011 third-round pick that appeared in no games this year and ends his Raider career with zero starts. He’ll attract attention on the open market thanks to his 39 college starts at LSU and 6′4/325 frame.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:27 am
I hope Criner plays this week. I have a good feeling bout him against Denver.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:28 am
Since when cant he catch?
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I have seen him drop two passes in the last 2 preseasons, both dumpoffs in which he was looking for the defender before he caught it, and of course his penchant on kickoffs for dropping the ball.
Mix that with his fumbles = bad hands
September 26th, 2012 at 8:29 am
Morilla Says:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:27 am
The Robbins story is a sad one. Mental health issues and addictions are nothing to scorn or laugh at. That guy has had a very rough ride, best of luck to him.
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True. We should also stop laughing at Beeecham and get him some help.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:30 am
And I dont think his running between the tackles is that bad. He’s shifty in a Harvey Williams sort of way.
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Harvey was a tough inside runner for year in the NFL.
Taiwan has maybe 10-15 NFL carries between the tackles in both preseason and regular season.
Not sure how you come to that comparision.
I would like to see Jones get some touches, but you have seen Hue and Knapp have to be “creative” to get him the ball, because handing him the ball on a standard run play, is a wasted play.
September 26th, 2012 at 8:33 am
I wonder who the Raiders will sign after Barksdale release?
September 26th, 2012 at 9:09 am
T. Jones is class of ‘11 draft. But barksdale is another LSU bust. Smh
September 26th, 2012 at 9:11 am
Those pitch plays need to go to Taiwan
September 26th, 2012 at 9:33 am
Bi-polar illness is a horrid mental illness.
The society is woefully undereducated about mental illness. The press, as usual, does nothing meaningful to give us information that will really help society, concentrating instead on the violence that ensues AFTER a patient breaks.
I hate the press. They care only about sensationalism and on the national level, they care only about advocacy, promoting their point of view. More and more people are calling the main stream media PRAVDA.
September 26th, 2012 at 10:48 am
what I know is working out for knapp and the RAIDERS is the increase production out of the tightends.I absolutely love the boost in productions.The offense may have a shot of many steady drives if this can continue.
September 26th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Fuk da police!
September 26th, 2012 at 11:54 am
The rest of the nfl fans are getting a taste of what it’s been like to be a raider fan all these years with the bogus calls