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Adam Schefter of the NFL Network offers up a report equal parts obvious and shocking: many Raiders have considered quitting completely in the face of the most dysfunctional season ever. The situation is obviously dark, worse than in winless Detroit. I mean, at least the Lions have Daunte Culpepper, right? (Actually ...)"I don't agree with what happened," Asomugha says. "I don't agree with what's going on. But I'm just a player. So I can't speak on it. I don't make the decisions. All I can do is play. But I don't agree with what happened at all."Conduct like this merits Nobel consideration, really.
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Al Davis has turned his pro-football franchise into THE laughing stock of american sports. Oakland has gone from the team people love to hate, to the team people laugh at like they are watching the NFL’s Football Follies VHS tape #1. It would serve Davis right if all the Raider players and their fans flat out quit. I wouldn’t think bad on any of them for doing so. Sometimes desperate situations call for desperate measures. A majority of the players would find themselves in better situations after it was all said and done.
by slim.sweetness on Nov 9, 2008 3:12 PM EST reply actions
pronounced "Nnamdi Asomugha "
by L'etat, c'est moi on Nov 9, 2008 4:28 PM EST reply actions
When you say the Raiders quit, do you mean the players or the coaches? My take is the coaches quit trying to score points. I call it like I see it and the offense is nonexistent since Kiffin got canned. Not calling Kiffin a guru or the like but when he was here we were at least a threat to score.
by samolag on Nov 9, 2008 8:31 PM EST reply actions
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e New England Medical Journal reports: Al Davis Has a rare
type of cancer. It kills everyone around Him, but strangely it won’t kill Him. Dr. Allen
of Boston Med, states that there isn’t even a name for this rare cancer and no
known cure. He did go on to say that one Doctor might be able to help AL Davis
cure this. DR. KAVORKIAN! Yes put him out of our misery
Dr.!!!!!! As many of us have said! Davis is the cancer of the RAIDERS!
The blame starts and stops with Him and only Him. Our players are the product of
Al’s disease. Coaches have developed Al’s brain tumor. How else to explain the horrid game
planning and worse play calling? But the good news is 43,435 fans have awaken
from a coma. They chose to stay home instead of spending their hard earned
money on this incurable cancer We call Al Davis.
DR. KAVORKIAN- If
you are out there. I believe Al
Davis is in need of your
assistance.
by SilverShark on Nov 10, 2008 3:42 PM EST reply actions
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