We Can Only Laugh
It’s gotten so bad around the Raiderhood that fans are hoping for injuries. Injuries to Raider players. Certain Raider players. Crazy thing is that it would probably help.
And really, what do we suffering Raider fans have left to do but laugh? Kissing Suzy Kolber has a hilarious piece on the Raider’s so called QB:
JaMarcus Russell is Too Lazy For Clever Headlines
How could a QB be sooo bad on first down passing? A down where the defense usually expects run? Russell is 12 of 40 for 136 yards with one sack, three interceptions and a passer’s rating of 10. Ten!
On the polar opposite end of the spectrum, wouldn’t it be nice if Russell and the other “10 percenters” on the Raiders had the attitude of Khalif Barnes?
“Being a professional and being in this league for a while now – I’m still young, I’ve only played four years – but you catch on to stuff and you know how stuff kind of works,” Barnes told me. “Whenever there’s adversity, and things aren’t going your way and your back’s up against the wall, and everybody’s out to get you and against you, the one thing, I think, a coward would do (is) turn his head, tuck his tail, and kind of walk off. A strong man, you kind of find out what a man is made of when he goes through his hardest hours, when his team goes through its hardest hours, darkest hours. So I think those kind of moments really define a person and let’s you know what a person is made of. Let’s you know who you want exactly on your team – are guys going to fold in the tent, throw it away already? It’s already a quarter of the way (through the season) and there’s 12 more games left. Anybody on this team who thought we were done and finished, probably shouldn’t be here. You have reporters and beat writers, they have their job. News guys have their job; that’s their job is to report what’s going on. You can’t get mad at them for doing their job and you can’t worry about them doing it. What you’ve got to do is worry about the guys inside this building. If you’re worried about everything else like that, you’re not going to get it done on Sunday. You have to worry about what you’re doing that week, get it done and know the adversity is coming – it’s going to be there. I’ve gone through it; I’m going through it now, other guys are going through it now. But what you do in that darkest hour is what defines you. When you come out that tunnel, man, it’s a good feeling. That’s how I look at it.” (from Paul Gutierrez)