May Day 10

Im pretty sure that was an unfounded and isolate Bucky Gleason rumor

I think it's safe to say the nfl plans on sticking with goodell for awhile. They will almost certainly appoint someone with a law background next time

If it's only business, then why is marrone and Whaley with brandon all the time (in Brandon's words), and he is all over football ops, everything goes through him, etc. I know the amount of influence he has... is just a giant endless circle of debate here... If brandon is effectively walled off quite obviously from football personnel. I wold be perfectly fine. I would think without being bothered with the pesky issues of the football team every day, brandon can concentrate more to further grow the non shared revenue. The club seats do appear to be rather empty the past few seasons

I know we are terrible. As I said after the fact, why we were good for Brandon. The Raiders have been awful. Have finished 4th or 3rd every season since 2002. Thats an eternity for a capped league. Won 5 or less games in 10 of the last 12 seasons.

Im sure he would like to keep control/say/involvement/whatever you want to call it over the football operations. If, in fact the Pegulas are going to reduce that role... and/or install someone new there. I could see Brandon leaving if he would be given a similar role as he had under Ralph Wilson.

thats why he was "perfect" for here

he is perfect for the Raiders. A garbage loser organization with terrible ownership who need to sell garbage to fans.

Its not necessarily putting the worst players possibe on the ice. It was ripping the team down to the studs

Im on board with that too. That is all I want. I get lumped in with "fire everyone", but I just want outside eyes to take control of the football operation

Hughes gay the crappy punter

so now we have zero NFL quarterbacks

I cant believe Sal gets so much love here. The guy grates my nerves to no end. He yells loudly into the microphone as if it makes his point more valid. He also uses coaching 7 year olds as "experience" that makes him an expert on Pro football. Its embarrassing. Schopp is a good broadcaster. Football and NHL are a bit out of his wheelhouse though and sometimes he takes ill-informed stances that arent popular with die-hards. Bulldog IMO is OK and plays the part of "everyfan" well... but at times (kind of often) I feel he doesnt bring anything to the table. When he is solo, the show is like listening to grass grow. All those guys on WGR are stale I guess. They all admit all the time not to pay attention, not do homework, etc. They dont seem to love their jobs and eat/breathe/sleep sports. Thus arent experts. Then pair that up with the awful pool of people who call the shows. It makes for bad, repetitive sports radio. The only few guys who seem to really put a lot into it are: White, Cowler (sp), Bascaglia, and Sal. The delivery on Sal is a dealbreaker for me.

yeah, to me its about the structure and hierarchy of the football department.... Not necessarily the people who are currently in it.

yeah, I downplayed the demands quite a bit... But it is/would be a far cry from coaching where they live in the team offices, or GMs, scouts, etc. I cant see a Cowher, Dungy, or Gruden going into anything like that ever again. I could see those guys being content/happy where they are. Gruden seems giddy at where he is. Who knows though? There has to be a competitive itch there and some sort of urge to create "legacy". While Gruden could become a legendary broadcaster, Cowher is basically just running down the clock in the CBS studio.

I really like the idea of installing cowher at the top... at least of the football ops. Especially if he has a pre-existing working relationship and respect with Whaley.

glad to see ryan out of the division. Oakland/Ryan would be a match made in heaven

While I dont see any of those guys going into coaching... or maybe even straight up GM. But a high paid President position where they merely set the chess pieces, golf a lot, and sit in the owner's box is a good gig and also scratches the competitive itch

From orchard park. Major agent/rep for pegulas ageny he had to sell. I think he is about 36 years old

It's one factor for sure. Many factors though most of which are self inflicted

Since Brandon crossed over from marketing and has been gm or aboverwhelming we are looking at 6 last place finishes and a 3rd. He is at the head of the table. Shouldn't he be scrutinized? I can see if people are really encouraged this season and think we are on to great things. I ask myself: are we closer to a sustained regenerable run of playoffs, maybe seeing Terry and Kim handed the Lombardi trophy on the podium next to brandon? Or is it closer to falling apart? It seems there have been indications that these 3 aren't all on the same page. To me, the old wilson structure here and marrone-whaley-Brandon can't get it done other than maybe catching lightning for a season and getting into a wild card game. I believe pegula's aspirations are higher. Of course people believe 2 years ago when brandon "took over". He said 100% to win... no stone... no financial... but then turned around and things were done that was indicative of same old same old. Renewing of the Toronto series, ugly squabble with Byrd handled poorly, being under the cap, spreading fitz's contract out instead of eating it one year and being able to improve next year. Refusing to stock the cupboard of any able qb to protect the "psyche" of manuEl and protecting the team from any qb contraversy... not only that but burning an extra 1st and 4th on the best receiver in the draft to try to prop that guy up. Ej tuel lewis is a comedy clown college of a tandem. Is there any close to that?

The Sabres have a brutal month and a half... and finally injuries are happening. The Oilers are due to win some games. My prediction is the 2 are within a couple points at the end of January and everyone else has pulled away for the most part.

What if they installed Bill Cowher as President and gave him a clean slate football department to do as he wishes?

Im still a huge fan of the idea of Briles

Not a playoff team IMO They lost nearly every game vs. the teams battling for the playoffs in their conference: NE, Houston, KC, San Diego, Denver, and Miami. Beat Miami and Cleveland who were also proven to be pretenders.

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