**Oakland Raiders 2010 offseason Thread**

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The Philadelphia Eagles are continuing trade discussions with a number of teams about trading quarterback Donovan McNabb and those discussions could continue until draft day, a senior team official told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio on Tuesday.

"There is no so-called front-runner," the senior team official said. "We continue to engage in conversations with multiple teams that initially contacted us. Some of the offers involve draft picks, some involve a player, some involve many players. We are evaluating the offers. But if some team had totally blown us away, we would probably have made a deal already."

League sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Monday that the Oakland Raiders have emerged as the leading candidate to land McNabb in a trade.

The league sources told Schefter all the ingredients for a trade are in place. Of all the teams the Eagles have spoken with, the Raiders have been the most willing to meet the Eagles' asking price.

A league source told Paolantonio the discussions focus on McNabb, although a number of teams are still calling about backup Kevin Kolb. The source said the Eagles are no longer shopping Michael Vick.

Also, the team official said there is no magic number in the draft that would be required to make a deal for McNabb. Late last week, there was an Associated Press report the Eagles wanted at least the 42nd pick in the draft for McNabb. "That's not true," the team official said.

Sources told Schefter McNabb's contract, which has one year and $11.2 million left on it, scared off other teams. But, the sources said, Oakland is not concerned that McNabb is due a $6.2 million roster bonus on May 5 nor that the quarterback is scheduled to become a free agent after the 2010 season.

At the league meetings, head coach Andy Reid said the Eagles were listening to offers for all three quarterbacks, including 11-year veteran McNabb, who quickly said on his Web site that he wanted a quick resolution to the trade conversations.

But the Eagles are intent on moving deliberately. Trading McNabb has proved to be tricky because of his age -- he will be 34 in November -- and the fact that he is in the last year of his contract and wants a lucrative long-term extension.
 
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i think that shit is a smoke screen.....they're probably not getting the ridiculous deal they want....they want to be over compensated and i think for the most part no one wants to do that shit so they put this shit out to make Al get jumpy....
 
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Donovan McNabb is a huge upgrade over all of our current QB's combined, but a bandaid on a bullet hole from a .50 caliber round in the gut is a joke.

We're going to give up a 2nd round pick, one that would desperately need to fill numerous holes in our team, pay him a dumb ass amount of money, including a roster bonus in a month or so, and then he'll walk away at the end of the season?

Typical.
 
Defy

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The salary cap is off next year, right? I bet al is trying to land mcnabb & franchise him next year then pull in players with fat ass contracts
 
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Langston Walker returns
By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer
Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 3:33 pm in Oakland Raiders.

The Raiders have signed Langston Walker, an offensive tackle who put in some time at guard last season.


The club announced the signing on its Twitter page, referring to Walker as a tackle.

Most draft pundits have the Raiders looking hard at the tackle position with the No. 8 overall pick in the draft. At present, Mario Henderson is the starting left tackle, and Tom Cable said Khalif Barnes and Erik Pears are in competition to start on the right side. Walker started 33 games for the Raiders at right tackle from 2002 through 2006.











he was a pretty good run blocker but i really dont care for this move, we better fucken draft a couple tackles..........fuck you AL
 
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You know Donovan McNabb trade rumors have reached a fevered pitched when the celebrity gossip sites are making reports. McNabb briefly knocked Jesse James out of the TMZ headline stacks with a report that the embattled quarterback does not want to play in Oakland.

The unidentified source tells TMZ that McNabb “does not want to play for the Raiders and would refuse the trade.”

NFL contracts typically do not carry ‘no-trade’ clauses, and McNabb’s only recourse would be to retire which seems excessive. Even with being traded to the Raiders.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Raiders’ No. 8 draft pick is in high demand. The report has a team offering the Raiders a second- and a first-round pick in 2011. The Chronicle’s David White says that the Raiders do not have a history of dealing high draft picks for additional picks, but an extra second-round pick could help the Raiders swing a trade for McNabb.

Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News speculates that if McNabb does land in Oakland, this could be the end of JaMarcus Russell. Kawakami writes that Russell would likely have to take a pay cut or be released.

Kawakami also disputes reports that Russell showed up to offseason workouts weighing close to 300 pounds, instead citing a source that put Russell at about 271 pounds. Russell was listed at 260 pounds in 2009.

For more thoughts on McNabb, the always-entertaining Eagles fans sounded off to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 
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McNabb: I would have gone to Oakland

By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer
Thursday, April 8th, 2010 at 4:09 pm in Oakland Raiders.

Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb refuted stories with unnamed sources which reported he would retire rather than play for the Raiders.

Talking with host Ryen Rusillo on the Scott VanPelt Show (ESPN Radio), McNabb was asked what he would have done had he been traded to the Raiders.

“I would have been at the workouts and working out with the team, throwing and trying to get the timing down with the corps of receivers and running backs they have and communicated with the offensive line to get ready for minicamp,” McNabb said.

When Rusillo asked about the threat to retire, McNabb at first laughed out loud.

“Retirement?,” he said.

McNabb went on to elaborate.

“This is the problem with some of these so-called key analysts and these smart guys out there who go by `sources.’ So many people listen to different sources `close to’ the individual, but never the individual, saying that I would have not showed up in Oakland, I would have been upset . . . hey, with my name always being in the media all the time because of trade talk, I’m just happy that it’s over. I don’t mind being on ESPN if it’s something positive for my play, not for where I’m going to land next. A lot of it was blown way out of proportion.”

Of course, having McNabb refuse to play for the Raiders is a much more interesting story than what is the more likely reality _ that Oakland simply is not getting older as a team but working at getting younger, and McNabb was never an option because of that philosophy.

Think about it.

Jeff Garcia and Lorenzo Neal never made it out of training camp last year. Greg Ellis was waived this offseason. Justin Fargas, a 30-year-old back in a 35-year-old body is gone. There was no effort made to talk with the likes of LaDainian Tomlinson and Terrell Owens, the types of Hall of Fame candidates the Raiders have looked to in years past.

The club has not come to a longterm deal with defensive end Richard Seymour, perhaps waiting to see if he’s started on the downside of his career but franchising him to hedge their bets.

If the Raiders really wanted McNabb, they would have made a serious offer and landed him. I’m not sure I buy the story that the magnanimous Eagles “did the right thing” by trading him to the Redskins even though McNabb remained in the division.

And last time I checked, although the Redskins direction is more promising with Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen running things instead of Daniel Snyder, they were 4-12 last year. One game worse than the team that McNabb supposedly wouldn’t consider.

The reason the Eagles made the trade is because they’re comfortable with seeing McNabb twice a year. And because the Raiders are floated more often as a trade possibility than any other team because they never deny it, and occasionally are punching bags because of it.

This should help close the book on the McNabb-to-Raiders story, but don’t count on it. It will be commonly accepted that McNabb refused to come to Oakland, regardless of what he or anyone else says.

It’s just one of those things the Raiders will have to endure until they change the storyline and start winning.

(Was out all morning taping a draft special for Comcast . . . thanks to the reader who told me about the interview).
 
beNz_NorCal

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Kiper’s projection: Raiders take Clausen
By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at 9:51 am in Oakland Raiders.

Draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. was one of the first aboard the Bruce Campbell bandwagon more than a month ago.


Now Kiper has Raiders taking Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen.

As for Campbell, Kiper believes the Raiders could eventually land him as well _ with their second round pick, No. 39 overall.

Kiper explained his reasoning during a national conference call Wednesday morning put together by ESPN.

He conceded that his initial push for Campbell to Oakland was because “he’s a workout warrior and the Raiders have tended to reach for players in the past, and I thought as a hunch, maybe they would . . . it was a grins and giggles type thing.”

Kiper lives in the Baltimore area and as such is familiar with Campbell, the University of Maryland tackle who despite his magnificent body, speed and physical skills did not get a single first team vote for All-Atlantic Coast Conference.

“I’m thinking he played in some games like a third, fourth, fifth-round pick, and he still needs a lot of work. He needs more fire and intensity and aggressiveness and doesn’t perform to the level of his physical talent,” Kiper said. “If I’m seeing that, and some other people in the league are, then why would the Raiders take him at No. 8?

“So at the end of the day, I have him in the early second round. I took him out of the first round.”

Why Clausen?

“Sure, you could take a left tackle,” Kiper said. “You could take a Trent Williams. You could take a Bryan Bulaga but they went to the Iowa program a few years ago with Robert Gallery, would they do that again? I went with Clausen because I think they need him. I’ve been told the money situation with Russell won’t prevent them from taking a quarterback and I think Jimmy Clausen at this point would be a heck of a choice.”

Then maybe, just maybe, Campbell becomes available anyway.

“In the second round, maybe a Rodger Saffold, a left tackle from Indiana. Maybe Campbell falls all the way down to that. You take Campbell in the second round. That’s not out of the realm of possibility.”

Kiper, by the way, ranks Clausen as the best quarterback prospect of the draft, one of the few to have the Notre Dame quarterback ahead of Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford.

“I do it for no other reason than how he played, how he performed,” Kiper said. “He was playing through torn ligaments in his toe, and a lot of people don’t know that. People who don’t like him can’t give me a good reason why they don’t. Maturity issues may have been there when he came out of high school, but they’re not there any more.”

Kiper deserves a certain amount of respect given his length of time in the business and the endless preparation and study. He’s never been an NFL scout himself, but he talks to them all the time. He helped make the draft a cottage industry.

“It’s the most important part of building a team,” Kiper said. “The fans know it, the players know it. Luckily for me, I knew it 32 years ago.”

Not that Mel, like everyone else in the business, hasn’t whiffed on a few.

This is what Kiper said on ESPN about Russell moments after Roger Goodell called his name at the 2007 draft.

“JaMarcus Russell is going to immediately energize Raider Nation, that fan base, that football team, on the practice field and in the locker room,” Kiper gushed. “Three years from now, you could be looking at a guy who’s certainly one of the elite top five quarterbacks in this league.

“Nobody has an arm like JaMarcus Russell and I think his mobility is a little underrated. Obviously, he needs a little time . . . but his skill level is John Elway-like.”










^^^^dont think that Al would do this.........
 
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