Published on: 29th April, 2010
What a great offseason it has been. For once the Raiders draft and trades have been almost universally approved by the sporting media, and just about every transaction has addressed an important need on this team. The move for Jason Campbell was a very good one. But in all this talk and ...Published on: 28th April, 2010
This offseason for the Oakland Raiders has been applauded even by their critics (well, apart from Mel Kiper) as taking this franchise in the right direction after seven years in the wilderness. Trades, free agent signings, and an excellent draft have combined to make the Raiders look like a much improved ...Published on: 26th April, 2010
Waking up on Sunday, I almost believed that it had all been a dream. So many years I have woken up after the draft with a feeling of disappointment, and then had to dig down deep to find some kind of optimism and positivity for the coming season. But not this year. This ...Published on: 18th April, 2010
So Thomas Howard has signed his second round tender for 2010. So where now from here? Most journalists firmly believe that Kirk Morrison is on the trading block with only an original pick tender, but I think Thomas Howard has been made even more expendable when you look at the current ...Published on: 16th April, 2010
The Oakland Raiders were always a team that took chances on players, both in the draft and in free agency, and it worked so well for them for a very long time. So why now have things got so bad that every time the Raiders make a move, sports journalists ...Published on: 12th April, 2010
Everyone has their theories on who the Raiders should take with the number eight pick, and with a number of acute areas of need on the team you would think that it wouldn’t be too hard to predict who will be the first player selected by Oakland. If only it were ...Published on: 8th April, 2010
With only two weeks to go before the 2010 NFL Draft, the entire NFL world is in a mock draft frenzy, with a hundred different interpretations for every team. Of all the teams in the league, the Oakland Raiders are the most difficult to predict, as no one can say with ...Published on: 6th April, 2010
There is plenty of speculation about who the Raiders will take with their No. 8 pick, but one thing that just about everyone agrees on is that they need to improve play along the offensive line. They have resigned their own free agents such as Khalif Barnes, but have done nothing ...Published on: 30th March, 2010
There have been consistent rumors about Oakland trading for Donovan McNabb, with a move including Asante Samuel from the Eagles and Nnamdi Asomugha from the Raiders. The rumor apparently comes from a source in the Eagles organization. The Raiders are hotly rumored to be the team most interested in McNabb, ...Published on: 23rd March, 2010
There are some big questions left to answer for the Oakland Raiders heading into the 2010 season, and whilst many of them might be answered on draft day, it is difficult to imagine all of them being answered in a single draft. The Raiders have been very quiet in free agency ...