The Official 2011 Oakland Raiders offseason thread
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I really don't think these losses of players are that big of a hit. We need to sign BOSS. Our team took huge steps in the right direction last year and I believe that continues into next year. First part of our schedule is tough with pats and jets back to back but were cool after that. Every game is winable IMO.
I think if we woulda lost hue instead of cable it would of hurt us more, cuz our offense has been horrible since gannOn up until last year.
Now losing gallery won't be much of a big deal since our o-line was never our strong point to begin with, and gallery was a huge let down!
Aso of course will hurt, but I think our corners will hold their own, especially if our d line beast like it should. We're having a top 5 defensive line and ill put money on it.
Miller will hurt alot less if we end up picking up bossman. But miller and asos departures affecting us are yet to be determined. But im starting to believe it's not as detremental as it sounds
Now losing gallery won't be much of a big deal since our o-line was never our strong point to begin with, and gallery was a huge let down!
Aso of course will hurt, but I think our corners will hold their own, especially if our d line beast like it should. We're having a top 5 defensive line and ill put money on it.
Miller will hurt alot less if we end up picking up bossman. But miller and asos departures affecting us are yet to be determined. But im starting to believe it's not as detremental as it sounds
Who needs Zach Miller. We resigned the eligible receiver, Khalif Barnes. haha
Aso did not make plays for us last year. He did shut down his man, but he only played one side of the field.
Other teams would line up their #1 against Routt instead.
Miller is a great TE and I will not say that again after this because fuck him.
They are raving about the rookie TEs in camp but of course they are after losing Miller.
Adam Schefter: Seven teams are over cap and will have to be under by Friday: STL $100K: ATL $1 MIL: DAL $3 M; DET $8 M; HST $8.5 M; PIT $11M; OAK $12M.
Maybe the reason why things aren't working out in free agency.
The Raiders really need to get their money in order and stop pushing everything into next year. We're caught in a hole it seems as year after year this is a problem.
Gutierrez: Raiders scrambling to get under cap
It's crunch time for the Raiders' bean counters.
With a 1 p.m. PT deadline for Oakland to be under the NFL's $120-million salary cap, the Raiders are purportedly feverishly working to shed salary and/or restructure contracts. Because according to ESPN, the Raiders "enter the day more than $15 million over the salary cap."
In this unusual post-lockout landscape, the top 51-paid players' contracts on the roster form the payroll, which has to be under the "soft" cap, giving teams some $3 million in wiggle room.
There is always a way around the cap, and if Al Davis wants a certain player, he generally gets him. A rare exception, of course, being tight end Zach Miller.
As theorized here and in many corners of Silver and Blackdom, the Raiders could potentially cut some relatively big names or restructure the deals of big name contracts to get under. Of course, that would put significant pressure on future years.
Richard Seymour (two years, $30 million with $22.5 million guaranteed) and Stanford Routt (three years, $31.5 million, $20 million guaranteed) are likely, if unusual candidates to be re-worked, since they both re-signed this offseason, before the lockout hit.
Then there are guys like right guard Cooper Carlisle (due $2.5 million) and receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, who got on the practice field for the first time this camp on Wednesday with an undisclosed injury.
Oakland's pursuit of free agent tight end Kevin Boss seemingly hinges on its cap issues, even as the Raiders have signed a glut of players in recent days, including quarterback Trent Edwards and offensive linemen Justin Smiley and Samson Satele while re-signing linebacker Kamerion Wimbley to an extension with $29 million guaranteed and free safety Michael Huff to a $32-million over four years-deal.
Of course, there is also a lot riding on the players union re-certifying itself today to get the league year officially started. Otherwise, no players, not just the veterans signed since the lockout ended, can practice today.
Read more: Gutierrez: Raiders scrambling to get under cap
Tune to SportsNet Central at 6, 10:30 and midnight on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area for more on this story
http://www.csnbayarea.com/08/04/11/...ing_gutierrez.html?blockID=545980&feedID=2539
It's crunch time for the Raiders' bean counters.
With a 1 p.m. PT deadline for Oakland to be under the NFL's $120-million salary cap, the Raiders are purportedly feverishly working to shed salary and/or restructure contracts. Because according to ESPN, the Raiders "enter the day more than $15 million over the salary cap."
In this unusual post-lockout landscape, the top 51-paid players' contracts on the roster form the payroll, which has to be under the "soft" cap, giving teams some $3 million in wiggle room.
There is always a way around the cap, and if Al Davis wants a certain player, he generally gets him. A rare exception, of course, being tight end Zach Miller.
As theorized here and in many corners of Silver and Blackdom, the Raiders could potentially cut some relatively big names or restructure the deals of big name contracts to get under. Of course, that would put significant pressure on future years.
Richard Seymour (two years, $30 million with $22.5 million guaranteed) and Stanford Routt (three years, $31.5 million, $20 million guaranteed) are likely, if unusual candidates to be re-worked, since they both re-signed this offseason, before the lockout hit.
Then there are guys like right guard Cooper Carlisle (due $2.5 million) and receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, who got on the practice field for the first time this camp on Wednesday with an undisclosed injury.
Oakland's pursuit of free agent tight end Kevin Boss seemingly hinges on its cap issues, even as the Raiders have signed a glut of players in recent days, including quarterback Trent Edwards and offensive linemen Justin Smiley and Samson Satele while re-signing linebacker Kamerion Wimbley to an extension with $29 million guaranteed and free safety Michael Huff to a $32-million over four years-deal.
Of course, there is also a lot riding on the players union re-certifying itself today to get the league year officially started. Otherwise, no players, not just the veterans signed since the lockout ended, can practice today.
Read more: Gutierrez: Raiders scrambling to get under cap
Tune to SportsNet Central at 6, 10:30 and midnight on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area for more on this story
http://www.csnbayarea.com/08/04/11/...ing_gutierrez.html?blockID=545980&feedID=2539
Seymour and Routt restructured deals. Didn't say what the details were though.
Hopefully they cleared up some room for Boss and Bush.
Edit: http://www.raidersblog.com/2011/08/cap-relief-routt-seymour-restructure.html
Hopefully they cleared up some room for Boss and Bush.
Edit: http://www.raidersblog.com/2011/08/cap-relief-routt-seymour-restructure.html
diggity damn, hopefully they keep him out of most of the preseason games cuz of this
RB McFadden breaks orbital bone, out two weeks or so
By Steve Corkran
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 at 5:55 pm in Oakland Raiders.
Raiders coach Hue Jackson just revealed that lead running back Darren McFadden missed practice Thursday because he suffered a fractured orbital bone. McFadden is expected to miss two weeks or so.
Jackson pointed out how McFadden missed significant time in training camp last season and went on to have the best season of his three-year NFL career.
In McFadden’s absence, along with unsigned free agent Michael Bush, the Raiders were down to Rock Cartwright and Louis Rankin at running back. Veteran Michael Bennett also is sidelined by injury right now.
McFadden wasn’t on the practice field at all. We’ll see if we can catch him afterward for comment. Headed back to the field for player interviews. Back at you in awhile.
RB McFadden breaks orbital bone, out two weeks or so
By Steve Corkran
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 at 5:55 pm in Oakland Raiders.
Raiders coach Hue Jackson just revealed that lead running back Darren McFadden missed practice Thursday because he suffered a fractured orbital bone. McFadden is expected to miss two weeks or so.
Jackson pointed out how McFadden missed significant time in training camp last season and went on to have the best season of his three-year NFL career.
In McFadden’s absence, along with unsigned free agent Michael Bush, the Raiders were down to Rock Cartwright and Louis Rankin at running back. Veteran Michael Bennett also is sidelined by injury right now.
McFadden wasn’t on the practice field at all. We’ll see if we can catch him afterward for comment. Headed back to the field for player interviews. Back at you in awhile.
it's pretty clear what he's trying to imply there. why even make the comparison to the raiders and huff? the media(especially espn) is anti raider, always trying to spin shit in a negative light with us. remember "nobody wants to sign huff and miller, they'll be forced to go back to the raiders now!" dead wrong on both of them. 'raiders are 30,000 million over the salary cap!' does it look like the team is panicking? nobody is getting cut, this is how al always does it.
