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2025-2026 NFL Thread
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While I'm not a fan of his, this season is a complete surprise to me. I think everyone expected more from the raiders with Carroll running the show.
It sure beats this monstrosity.
As much as I hate to say it, time to move on from Max get as many picks as you can for him and build a new team, fresh start clean out the front office and clean out all the coaches, we need a 100% reboot
I came away from this past week's game with a firmer sense of how the next three weeks are going to play out and thus the playoff picture. First, New England is going to lose to the Ravens and the Dolphins, finish as the fifth seed and play Pittsburgh at Accrisure. Drake Maye is not a cold-weather qb, and Josh Allen is. The Bills are going to the Super Bowl to play the Rams. That's my take, anyway. The Raiders don't have an identity, a coherent strategy or a sense of their fan base: Is it tourists? Vegas residents, former fans in Oakland, the world-wide Raider nation???? Who do they listen to? The owner, Tom Brady? The GM (who the hell would that be?) They hired the oldest head coach in the league when everyone else is going younger and more player-centric former players? They don't have a quarterback or draft strategy. And, yet so long as the Jets are around....
The bumblebees.
Modeled by Brett “The Beard” Keisel.
Known for tossing Jake Plummer like a rag doll away from a loose ball at the end of the AFCCG in Denver.
Compared to the yellow “color flush” unis, they are outstanding.
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The Raiders fan base isn't like it once was in Oakland as a season ticket holder for both, Oakland fans were so much more passionate than any of these "Las Vegas" fans, 2nd sometimes it seems like Davis doesn't really care about the team because he's getting that out of town money from visiting fans who actually show up way more than the Raiders fans so why would he care he's still making tons of money on other teams fans, 3rd coaching and GM's etc. they like the "big" names old school people for some odd reason, look at every other team we are the only team who just stays bad year after year
It's difficult when a team has a repeated stream of coaches/GMs, each with their own philosophies.
Carroll has a proven record of success, but doesn't seem to have a good coherent strategy, and what worked in Seattle with a journeyman QB in Smith has bombed in LV. This season has been a disaster, but do you bet on giving him more time, or the heave ho?
Give him the boot, and the cycle starts over (and over) again, and nobody is gettin' any younger.
You have to have attained some level of success (or be a nepo baby, cough) to be in position to buy and own a big sports franchise.
But it's a very desirable club to be in, because the dirty little secret is that the leagues take care of all their owners, and being an owner doesn't mean that a team has to be successful on the field to make money.
Taken to extremes, you have franchises like the A's who fell into the wrong hands, and made a disgrace of the franchise, esp. compared to the prior ownership and their success in the late 80s.
Ah yes, the Raiders, who having left their Oakland domicile with leaking sewage facilities, have continued to stink none the less.
But first some history (from wikipedia, whom I donated $26 today, and you should too)
When the team was founded in 1960, the Oakland Tribune held a name-the-team contest. The winning name was the Oakland Señors.[134] After a few days of being the butt of local jokes (and accusations that the contest was fixed, as Chet Soda was fairly well known within the Oakland business community for calling his acquaintances "señor"), the fledgling team (and its owners) changed the team's name nine days later[135] to the Oakland Raiders, which had finished third in the naming contest.[136]
Chet Soda hired a well-known sportswriter, Gene Lawrence Perry, as the first Director of Public Relations.[137] Perry (who was hired in 1959 as the first front-office hire) commissioned an unknown Berkeley artist and asked that a logo be created which included a helmeted man with an eye-patch, with the firm chin of a Randolph Scott,[138] a well known Western film actor. The new owners had their newly minted Raiders logo, a pirate wearing a football helmet with an eye patch on a gold football background with two white swords in black trim with gold handles crossed behind the football.
The original Raiders uniforms were black and gold with Gothic numerals, while the helmets were black with a white stripe and no logo. The team wore this design from 1960 to 1962. In a very rare move, the jerseys displayed the player's full name on the back, before being pared down to only the surname in 1963. When Al Davis became head coach and general manager in 1963, he changed the team's color scheme to silver and black, and added a logo to the helmet. This logo is a shield that consists of the word "RAIDERS" at the top, two crossed cutlasses with handles up and cutting edge down, and superimposed head of a Raider wearing a football helmet and a black eye patch covering his right eye. Over the years, it has undergone minor color modifications (such as changing the background from silver to black in 1964), but it has essentially remained the same.
Notable Raider Performances
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1) Oakland was never going to be a possibility. The decaying facility was not getting replaced and still hasn't been.
2) David really killed attendance after the return of the Raiders to Oakland with 10 year PSLs (not permanent) and attendance and revenue sucked until that was reversed.
3) Yeah, management. Sue happy Al David lost it mentally and a bunch of dumb decisions (Jamarcus Russel, Darrius Heyward-Bey (memories of Willie Gault clouding his mind, Robert Gallery). You can argue it hasn't gotten any better under his son, but at least they aren't suing other teams about their uniforms
4) Then lets not forget the genius of Callahan, coach hired after Gruden was released to go to the Buccs and the Raiders got compensation. What did he do? Step on his dick and not bother to change the QB audible calls, which had been installed by Gruden. What did Gruden do? Coach his defense on the audibles before...
Seriously watch that game again, its pretty obvious when you see the turnovers and the defensive dominance in general.
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That year's playoffs pissed me off.
My sister got married in Portland Oregon. As soon as the wedding was over I hit the road west bound, headed for the coast. I passed an Air Museum I should have stopped at, damn it, in McMinneville, the home of the Spruce Goose. I was too busy with beer and playoffs on my mind.
I headed down the PCH to Newport, home of Rogue Brewing (RIP). I went to the brewery and the tv wasn't working. It was across the bay at their public house, where I had one of every beer on tap (or at least a sample) before heading upstairs to one of their suites. They offered bed and beer. I watched the game there. I purchased a case of their double IPA (I2PA), arguably the first double IPA ever made, and put in the overhead storage on the flight home. You could do that back then.
Anyways the Steelers were playing the Titans. It came down to a last second FG in OT. It was missed but the bastard Nedney hammed it up after missing a kick. He got another attempt and made it.
That year Tommy Maddox was unstoppable as a QB. We had already beaten the Buccs on a Thursday Night game. I think we would have beaten them again.
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3rd time is a charm!Bring back Gruden!
I should have thanked the person for putting a Super Bowl hex or cursing the Bills and Rams insteads.
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I believe the Broncos will take the #1 seed in the AFC. We are a game up on the Patriots and have the tie breaker with 3 games left.
Not convinced that the Jags can stand up against our defense. The Chiefs game is no longer an issue. And we should also handle the Chargers.
Not convinced that the Jags can stand up against our defense. The Chiefs game is no longer an issue. And we should also handle the Chargers.
I just wish we, well The Broncos had a better running game like 2015, 1998,1997.
but thing look very good as the D makes that driven ending late 4th quarter stop every game now.
Cortland Sutton has been clutch these past 3 games.
Yup
Titans fans around me, I live in MidTn, were pissed when Vrabel got fired.
He fit you guys like a glove though.