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" \t610Sports in Kansas City reports that the Chiefs have offered Patriots VP of Player Personnel Scott Pioli their GM position. However,the sides have yet to agree on control. Owner Clark Hunt prefers tohire a money man to handle the finance side while Pioli keys onpersonnel, which Hunt presumably feels is his strong suit. If Pioliwants power over both responsibilities, he may just stay in NewEngland. Hunt also wants Pioli to keep Herm...

Agreed. EXCEPT, if J. Walker decided to retire which we all know isn't likely to happen. Why Al didn't let him do it last season still has me wondering. Anyone know where he hangs out and can Tanya Harding his as$?     Just give him a free trip to Vegas!!  LMAO! Classic.  

Russell could only benefit from such a situation.  If there's a guy who can mold him into a great qb, this is the guy.

Knapp gone, who's next? Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Knapp is headedto Seattle to rejoin longtime pal Jim Mora Jr. This move was set inmotion when Mora was named the coach-in-waiting 12 months ago, sothere's no surprise here. With wide receivers James Lofton the only Raiderscoach known to be under contract next season, here's a handicap of someof the rest of the staff's options with contracts expiring Tuesday....

Both d-line and o-line needs some work to be done but I think  (and this is just my opinion) o-line should be addressed in day one of the draft followed by other areas that appear to becoming bigger factors (LB, WR possibly CB), then d-line, but I wonder how much of the d-line's ineffective play was a result of poor coaching as  opposed to talent-level?  How about: Jason Smith (Best fit if we keep ZBS) Max Unger (can play anywhere on...

Kinda what you said about Shanahan, Gruden, Norv Turner, Randy Moss, Collins, Jordan and about a thousand others.  IT'S AMAZING how careers take off once coaches and players leave the NFL graveyard known as the Oakland Raiders.

I hope I'm wrong, but I have a feeling the defense he runs in Cleveland will be much different than what he ran in Oakland.  I think Al had more to do with the overall scheme than they are willing to admit.  I always found it hard to believe that Buddy Ryan's son, and a Belichek disciple, would run such vanilla schemes.  In Cleveland he'll be able to do more of what he wants to do.  Then again, Al let him try to install a...

Although the philosophy is not always considered sound, the Raiders will generally draft best available on their board (or best available in Al's mind).  Whether they do with our first round pick this year or not remains to be seen.  One thing to keep in consideration, if you are going to draft by need, you must make sure that the pick you are taking is worth taking with that pick.  You don't want to take a player with the 7th...

D@mn it! I thought this thread was about Don finally kicking the bucket.

Good, Knapp sucks.