The former Bronco just can’t let his hatred for the Raiders go. He continues to rub the Raiders’ noses into the poop of their recent woes. L-Dizzle has a good round-up of his most recent Raider bashing outburst. Yes, he’s a loser and, yes, Janikowski was snubbed by the Pro Bowl selectors.
Remember that opener last season against Denver where DeAngelo Hall single-handedly lost the game by allowing a rookie WR to basically play throw and catch all evening? On national TV no less.
Well, evidently that was not his fault. His fat paycheck and utter lack of production had nothing to do with the Raider failures last year. The guy just cannot cover man-to-man.
Now, he’s spouting off again about how “bad” the Raiders are….and always will be. It was in an interview with BSPN Radio and some clown named Colin Cowherd. Hall’s Raider-hater comments were totally out of the blue and unprovoked, but this Cowherd fellow didn’t hesitate to jump in and join him in the Raider bashing and even asked him to elaborate.
The hilarious thing is, this guy plays for the Redskins and he says the Raiders have “no shot in hell at doing anything in this league.”
Yes, the powerhouse Redskins!
Even more hilarious is he thinks that he’s in a good place.
We’ll see. We’ll see.
The transcript is on Thoughts from the Darkside, if you can stand to read it.
Rod Woodson is a Hall Of Famer. When he was asked out of all his great years in the NFL, which play was the most memorable for him, this was his response:
“I would have to go to the 2002 season with the Oakland Raiders. We started out 4-0 and then we went 0-4. We were playing the Denver Broncos. They were driving down to score the go-ahead touchdown really early in the game. Griese dropped back and threw it right into my hands and I took it in for a touchdown. We went up by ten. That really changed our season around and we went on to the Superbowl.”
I didn’t want to celebrate, or even blog about, the Raider win over the Texans last week because I was afraid of a face plant in Tampa Bay like the embarrasment in Baltimore after the NY Jet win or the collapse vs lowly Kansas City after the Denver route.
To my surprise, I received a late Christmas gift in the form of back to back Raider wins. This one against a team fighting for the playoffs, in their house, across country, and the most unbelievable – after being down by 10 points with only 11 minutes left in the game!
As if the Raider win wasn’t enough, everything else went well this Sunday. As a Raider fan of late, I’ve had to take pleasure in watching the teams I hate lose. I know, it’s a little sad and hopefully that will change soon.
The team that is known by their obnoxious fans and mediots as “America’s Team” was absolutely blown out by Philadelphia 44-6 to miss the playoffs entirely. Ha! Super Bowl bound, my ass. They haven’t won a playoff game in over ten years and yet they’re still media darlings.
Speaking of obnoxious fans and media darlings, even better was the 11-5 Patriots not making the playoffs. Nawt fay-uh, they’re surely crying. Perhaps this is kismet for all the cheating they’ve done in the past. Maybe Belicheat is regretting not trying to do just a little more cheating this year to get them over the hump. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Ahhh….I think I’ll drink a Sam Adams to celebrate their demise.
Well, that pretty much completes my football weekend. I think the only thing that might improve on it is if that crybaby Jay Cutler and the Broncos get knocked out of the playoffs tonight at San Diego. I’m no San Diego fan, of course, but it’s definitely the lesser of two evils.
This is over a week old and brings up some bad memories, but it’s so hilarious, it’s worth posting. It’s the Thai-Indian News take on the Raiders Monday Night Football embarrassment: Oakland Raiders beaten 41-14 by minnow-like Broncos. Here’s a sample from our Thai-Indian friends:
Oakland Raiders suffered Jay Cutler’s strength and rocket arm to loose face and credence wit a defeat of 14-41….he was the element that led a campaign that saw the Oakland Raiders smashed and demoralized to humility.
The take away here is that even that mega-niche NFL fan base of Indians living in Thailand could tell that Rob Ryan doesn’t know how to run a defense:
Oakland was beaten due to their simpleton game.
But I still don’t get the “minnow” reference.
D as in the defense.
So much for the hope and excitement for the new season. Dashed in about a half of football. Obliterated in a 41-14 blow out loss to the Denver Broncos at home. Denver – a team that wasn’t even thought very highly of, suddenly looks to be very strong in the AFC West with QB Cutler looking very sharp and a great looking rookie WR from Virginia Tech in Eddie Royal to complement Brandon Marshall.
The Raiders disappointed in so many ways. Russell looked like accuracy may be a problem with him. It’s just one game and he’s essentially a rookie, so I won’t be too hard on the guy. Ball security needs to be addresses by him though. He cost the team some critical points when the game was still close early by losing the handle on a screen pass.
Offensive line had protection issues once again and penalties on both sides of the ball were killers. Very lopsided in that only 3 penalties were called on the Broncos for 15 yards while 10 for 96 yards were called on the Raiders. Nice no call on the Zach Miller mugging early that should have given the Raiders a first and goal at around the five. Same old story. I can’t blame the zebras as the Raiders were either being dominated or were off balance by Denver’s play calling. Oh, and nobody could evidently cover that Royal guy.
Quick review here: The Raiders traded their second round pick this year for DeAngelo “Toast” Hall. The Raiders had a real need to fill at WR. Guess who was available – some guy named Eddie Royal from Virginia Tech. (Royal caught 9 for 146 and a TD, most of those on Hall)
Raiders only bright spot – the hard running of Justin Fargas.
Regardless of the problems on offense (after all, the Raiders are desperately thin at WR and Javon Walker was out), the defense was the biggest let down of all. I really thought this was going to be the strength of the team, with the rock solid secondary, quick linebackers, and the improvement of Kelly and Sands. Update: Sands still looks like an underachieving big man, Kelly appeared average, DeAngelo Hall was playing loose all night and still was being turned around, Trevor Scott should have been a cut as he gets swallowed up easily by tackles and generates zero pressure, Derrick Burgess looks like he is on the downside of his career and should be in there only on passing downs, Michael Huff still needs to tackle better, and last but most importantly, Rob Ryan should not be a defensive coordinator in the NFL. I’d be much happier if he did go to the Jets.
Granted, Shanahan called a great game and mixed it up, but the Raiders never got close to Cutler all night. He was laughing it up. What happened to the Raider teams that struck fear in the opposing QBs? He was all giddy and couldn’t wait to get in there. Burned in my memory was him yucking it up with his offensive coordinator as he ran onto the field for their first second half possession….and they were backed up at about their own 8. Depressing.
Does Ryan know what a blitz is? Does he still think he has great players that can win every one-on-one match up? Can the Raiders fire him now?
Other random notes: Chris Johnson is worthless. He did nothing to win a job in preseason and he cost the Raiders a good punt return on a needless block in the back. Sam Williams still sucks. He had a chance to tackle the Denver back at the line of scrimmage on 3rd and goal late in the game to salvage some Raider pride…..and yes….he whiffed. I guess I should be happy that he’s not starting. Raiders need a defensive end, maybe two, that can hold their ground at the point of attack (neither can, evidently) and rush the passer when needed. DeAngelo Hall looked lost out there. And did I mention the Raider defense was also out coached?
Perhaps I’m being too critical, but this was a terrible, confidence-killing loss to start a season filled with optimism. It’s still just one game and I hope this serves to motivate and not create more tension within the organization, but something tells me (if all the offseason rumors are true) it’ll be the latter, unfortunately.