January 10th, 2008
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
Buffalo Bills TE Kevin Everett is just one of many fantastic stories of courage and achievement that make up the 2007 class of The Ed Block Courage Awards.
It’s well-known that Kevin suffered a spinal cord injury covering a kickoff in the Bills’ season opener against the Broncos. […]
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January 3rd, 2008
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Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
Oakland Raiders DT Warren Sapp announced his retirement today on his QBKilla.com Web site with two words: I’m Done. And so ends the 13-year career of the seven-time Pro Bowler.
I was not a fan of Warren in his early days. Sure, I recognized that he […]
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October 1st, 2007
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
When Daunte Culpepper left the Miami Dolphins back in training camp, he was an unwanted man. The team dealt for QB Trent Green as his replacement and released Daunte to a less-than-enthusiastic league. The Oakland Raiders would take a chance and four games into this 2007 season, Daunte […]
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August 1st, 2007
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
After drafting LSU QB JaMarcus Russell with the very first pick back in April, the Oakland Raiders had their quarterback of the future. With training camp now underway, that quarterback is still at his home in Mobile, Alabama negotiating a contract while Andrew Walter and Josh McCown split […]
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May 6th, 2007
Minicamps opened this weekend for over half the NFL teams, many of them for rookies only. And that meant first practices for the new draftees, so it was an opportunity to see the top picks in action for the first time.
In Oakland, JaMarcus Russell showed off his arm strength enough to prompt this reaction from […]
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April 28th, 2007
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Not surprisingly, LSU QB JaMarcus Russell was the first overall selection by the Oakland Raiders. It wasn’t as obvious as last year when Mario Williams went first to the Houston Texans the day before the Draft, but I think most people agreed that barring a blockbuster deal being presented to the Raiders, […]
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April 13th, 2007
Based on their opponents’ 2006 winning percentages, the Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders have the toughest schedules to play in the 2007 NFL season. This hardly seems fair since the Raiders were the worst team in the league a year ago. But, such is life in the AFC West (Chargers, Broncos, Chiefs). As for the […]
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