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Raiders in 2008: On one hand, on the other hand
Caught your collective breath yet, Raider Nation? Still lamenting the passing (not the passing game, the passing) of Lane Kiffin’s tenure? Still wondering whether this team’s heading for a 2-14 finish or closer to 8-8? Still trying to decide what extraterrestrial force ...
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Frenzied Raiders need Fargas more than ever
OK, so Tom Cable is the new head coach of the Oakland Raiders. It’s a topic that’s been (justifiably) talked about ad nauseum over the past few days.
Cable, like any one of the Raiders’ last five head coaches, is an interim coach. (Except he actually has the label ...
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Fire Cable!
In one of the most coherent bits of his public announcement on Tuesday, Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis lamented that “It hurts because I picked the guy. I picked the wrong guy." Sure, Davis was referring to poor Lane Kiffin, but here’s to thinking that we’ll be hearing ...
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Previewing the Raiders’ second quarter
With Lane Kiffin’s career in a holding pattern – save, of course, for the obligatory daily non-story based on innuendo from “a source” repeating his gossip for the fourth straight week – RealFootball365.com can stay on the actual football page for another day.
In a ...
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Jeckyll and Hyde Raiders strike again
You know that classic pregame cliché about “which team is going to show up for this matchup”? If nothing else and with damnable consistency, the 2008 Oakland Raiders appear to have this one answered: Both.
Talk about your tale of two halves. In a rerun. For the ...
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Raiders set to meet L.T. at worst possible time
The month of September is nearing its end, and San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson is still in search of his first 100-yard game.
Just in time to meet his favorite opponent, the Oakland Raiders.
The five-time Pro Bowler, who’s been battling a ...
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Who is Deep Throat in Oakland?
The most disturbing aspect of the continuous flow of stories regarding the imminent replacement of Oakland Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin is a mysterious “unnamed source” who keeps popping up in reports, apparently privy to much personnel information and ...
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Raiders’ Ryan can’t play to ‘prevent’ losses
There’s something about making the same mistake twice that touches a nerve with people.
At this point, followers of the Oakland Raiders have to be ripping their hair out when it comes to the chronic slip-ups made by defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. The late-game ...
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Kiffin still around; by the way, Chargers-Raiders on Sunday
So, Raider fans, how many times did you refresh your browser Monday waiting for a Lane Kiffin headline? As another day passes and another major media outlet dumbly reports “news” from an “unnamed source” that continues to “report” that Kiffin “will” be ...
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For Raiders, moral victory or Pyrrhic loss?
Poor Lane Kiffin. Everything was in the bag in this one with five minutes left. Oakland Raider game balls were in the making for recently much-maligned guys like Johnnie Lee Higgins, Tommy Kelly and DeAngelo Hall, and the silver and black not only kept it close despite ...
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