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ESPN: Our Employee Jon Gruden Will Be Next Raiders Coach
ESPN is reporting its employee Jon Gruden will leave the company after eight years and take his turkey hole to the Raiders, where he started his head coaching career 20 years ago. The deal to bring Gruden back to coaching could include giving him a chunk of team ownership, again according to ESPN. ...
Report: The Raiders Are Prepared To Dump Out Their Wallets For Jon Gruden
Jon Gruden coached in Oakland for four good years, leading the Raiders to four consecutive .500-or-better seasons, including two playoff appearances and an AFC Championship game. In the 16 seasons since the franchise traded him to the Buccaneers, the Raiders have had four .500-or-better seasons, and...
Why Does Jon Gruden Think The Philadelphia Stadiums Are "Downtown"?
Philadelphia teams have been tanking incompetently since before Sam Hinkie was alive. The 1968 Eagles started out 0-11 and looked like a lock to draft O.J. Simpson No. 1 overall. Then they won two straight to ensure that the Bills would have the top pick. In their 14th and final game that year, a yo...
$13 Billion Industry Uses Folded-Up Piece Of Paper To Determine Outcomes
The Cowboys earned a first down tonight in a play so ridiculous it made the Steelers’ loss look positively pedestrian. The NFL uses computer chips in uniforms, pads, and the football itself—but the decision to award first downs still comes down to a technology so analogue it existed two hundred year...
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Aqib Talib And Michael Crabtree Both Suspended One Game For Chain-Snatching Fight [Update]
Cornerback Aqib Talib and wide receiver Michael Crabtree have been suspended for two games each for unsportsmanlike conduct and unnecessary roughness in yesterday’s matchup between the Broncos and Raiders....
Amari Cooper Knocked Out On Hit From Darian Stewart
Raiders QB Derek Carr led receiver Amari Cooper into a hard hit from the Broncos’ Darian Stewart when he overthrew a ball intended for Cooper. As Cooper reached up to try and grab the pass, he took a hit right to the head from Stewart’s left shoulder, which led to Cooper staying down on the field fo...
Michael Crabtree And Aqib Talib Sparked A Raiders-Broncos Fight
Last season, Aqib Talib and Michael Crabtree had a bit of a kerfuffle when the Denver corner ripped the chain off the Oakland receiver on the field. Today, just four minutes into the Broncos-Raiders rematch, Crabtree went for payback, blocking Talib so roughly that he forced Talib off the field and...
Trump Tweets About Marshawn Lynch Sitting For The Anthem; I Can't Believe We're Still Doing This
I’m so, so sick of this, but if I have to deal with it I’m gonna make you deal with it too:...
Khalil Mack May Very Well Be Too Strong
Chiefs tackle Eric Fisher is 6-foot-7 and weighs 315 pounds. Raiders linebacker Khalil Mack is also quite large, coming in at 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds, but not so large, one might think, as to be able to turn a man of Fisher’s size into a Jenga tower in pads. And yet, we can all see the GIF at the to...
Marshawn Lynch Watched Game From The Stands After Ejection, Took The Train Home
After Marshawn Lynch was ejected from last night’s game against the Chiefs for making contact with an official, there were reports that he had immediately changed into street clothes in the locker room and left the stadium. That turned out to not be quite true; Lynch did indeed leave the locker room...
Raiders Win In Wild Finish That Everybody Screwed Up
Oakland topped Kansas City tonight in yet another improbably entertaining Thursday night game, though one that had a finish marred (to some) or spiced up (to others) by errors committed by, in order, the officials, the Raiders, the Chiefs, and the Chiefs again:...
Donald Penn Gets Into It With An Abusive Fan
The Raiders, without Derek Carr, dropped a 30-17 game against the scuffling Ravens that wasn’t even quite as close as the score would suggest. Everyone’s frustrated, as what was supposed to be a team capable of making a deep postseason run is now just 2-3. But here’s where I’d like to remind everyon...
Derek Carr Will Miss At Least Two Weeks With A Fractured Bone In His Back
Derek Carr left the Raiders’ 16-10 loss to Denver Sunday with a back injury after a pair of Broncos defenders sacked him with five minutes left in the game. Although Raiders head coach Jack Del Rio initially believed that Carr was dealing with back spasms, and Mike Silver reported the QB took a knee...
Marshawn Lynch Stays Hidden For The National Anthem
Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch, who habitually sits during the national anthem, was obscured by Raiders personnel during the anthem today before the game between Oakland and the Denver Broncos. With the way staff formed around Lynch, it would have been nearly impossible to notice him si...
Sean Smith To Plead Not Guilty To Felony Assault On Friday, Expected To Play On Sunday
Raiders cornerback Sean Smith is expected to plead not guilty to felony charges of assault and battery tomorrow, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal, after a July incident in which he allegedly beat and stomped on the head of his sister’s boyfriend....
Raiders Superfan Dr. Death On Giving Up Football
I’ve never lost a team. I don’t and can’t really understand what Raiders fans are going through with the planned departure of the team from Oakland; that’s what I came here to figure out....
Marshawn Lynch Had The Oakland Coliseum Dancing
Marshawn Lynch scored his first touchdown since returning to the NFL in the Raiders’ 45-20 thrashing of the Jets today. With an acceptable stat line and his team up comfortably in the fourth quarter, Lynch danced to the music at the Oakland Coliseum....
The Raiders' New Kicker Made History And Referenced Aristotle
Longtime Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski is gone for at least half of the season with a back injury and restructured contract. His injury gave Giorgio Tavecchio an opportunity in Oakland’s season opener against the Titans, and he was perfect in his debut....
Marshawn Lynch Is Back And Already Trucking Big Linemen
In a league where few running backs have a career expectancy beyond age 30, it seemed foolish to expect that an unretired Marshawn Lynch would be just as punishing as he was when he played for the Seahawks. And then he flattened a 300-pound defensive lineman....