Who's The Doss!

Two-time consensus All-American, Walter Payton Award finalist and Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year joins hometown team


Today's game against the Kansas City Chiefs should see rookie Raiders wide receiver Keelan Doss on the field. The young glimmer of promise in the preseason has yet to play in an NFL regular season football game. That changes today in week 2.

His early start to a professional football career has been interesting to say the least. With all the AB stuff we witnessed of late, its just fate that has brought Doss back to the Raiders from Jacksonville. In my opinion, he should've never been cut. Hopefully Gruden has learned his lesson.

Today we'll see if what the youngster did in the preseason can be duplicated in games that count. Because Today, Doss is ready for Launch in Oakland.

Welcome to the NFL Keelan Doss. Now show us What U Got...…….

Raiders Mourn Loss of Eddie Money. A Rocking Roll Raiders Fan!

Its Always About The Money - Raiders Release AB

Breaking News out of ALAMEDA, Calif. – The Raiders have released WR Antonio Brown from the team today.

And there ends the HBO mini-series about the troubled honeymoon of a proud sports franchise and its brief marriage to a diva athlete. This morning the marriage vows were rescinded and an annulment was granted. 

The franchise saves $29 million dollars and the diva gets to tempt another desperate eligible bachelor to put a ring on it. I'm sure after watching this roller-coaster mini-series that potential bachelors will only go courting this gold digger with a pre-nuptial agreement in hand, something the Raiders obviously were smart enough to do.

Raider Nation should be thankful that the team finally saw the writing on the wall and let go of their hyped highlight fantasies of the diva. Though his skills are undeniably extraordinary, everything else about him is unstable and unpredictable. And sooner or later the diva was going to do what divas do; display their narcissism and selfishness by holding out and/or not fulfilling their part of the contract. They basically take the money and run. "Well, not up in here!"

Congratulations Raiders on Moving On from the Diva!

You've got to know when to Hold'em

Know when to Fold'em

Know when to Walk Away

And Know when to Run

You never count your Money

When you're sittin' at the Table

There'll be time enough for Countin'

When the dealin's Done

U Gotta Know When To Hold'em!

Now every gambler knows 

The secret to survivin'

Is knowin' what to throw away

And knowin' what to keep.
- lines from Kenny Rogers "The Gambler"

On the morning of the NFL regular season kickoff, the Raiders and star receiver Antonio Brown are headline news; and it ain't good news.

Seems Brown and Raiders GM Mike Mayock had a verbal confrontation over a letter sent to Brown about fining him. Mayock is now talking suspension. If suspended, the Raiders could back away from the $30 million contract they gave Brown and then likely cut him from the team.

Problem now is we just don't know all the facts about the confrontation, other than that it was verbal and not physical. But supposedly Brown had to be held back from going after Mayock, supposedly.

My take on this whole thing with Brown is that the Raiders knew what they were getting with AB and they rolled the dice. Sure they could bow out now, cutting their loses and recouping $30 mil., but that would be an admittance to making a big mistake to begin with in rolling the dice.  As for a season without Antonio Brown on the field, that's like the Warriors losing Kevin Durant for the season. And we all know how the Warriors season turned out without KD down the stretch.

So I say let AB be AB as long as he produces on the field. I don't think he's disrupting the team or its play on the field. We know what he can do on the field, so let'em make up for any off-field mistakes by producing plays on the field. Its time for some football dammit, and the Raiders have a shot at being contenders this season; but only if AB is on the field. 

Breaking News

NFL Network will air Raiders coach John Gruden  addressing the Antonio Brown issue in a press conference today at 1pm, so its serious folks.

Florida - Get Out!

Safety, Preparedness & Recovery Guide

Personal message/warning from Raiderlegend:

In a nutshell, a historic category 5 major hurricane is traveling through the Bahamas toward the southeast coast of the United States. The warnings began earlier this past week when it was only a tropical storm threat, plenty of time given to prepare. The experts with their model hurricane predictors have been speculating the hurricane will likely travel north along the Southeast coast with possible landfall near Georgia if at all.

Today, I’m hearing many speculators suggest the hurricane will not swing north but continue in a northwestern path toward Florida. What we know for sure is that hurricanes are unpredictable and unforgiving. Floridians who have the ways and means to travel away from the state to safer grounds should do so immediately. Your property and possessions are not as important as your precious life.  Heed the actions of your president who is staying away from his prized Florida property and home, Mar-a-lago, which is in the westward path of the hurricane.  He has found safety sixty miles north of Washington, D.C., at Camp David in Maryland.

Floridians, get out! If you cannot get out then plan ahead for your safety and that of your family. Expect the worst scenario and prepare accordingly.  Likewise, neighboring states of Georgia, South and North Carolina should be in the same safety mode. Check-in with your nearest community safety services and get informed. There’s a big storm coming, its named Dorian. Prayers are with you to be proactive in your safety.

God Bless!

Category 5 Hurricane

The most catastrophic of all hurricanes, a Category 5 has a maximum sustained wind speed of 157 mph or higher. Damage can be so severe that most of the area hit by such a storm could be uninhabitable for weeks or even months.

Coastal storm surge reaches more than 18 feet and the barometric pressure is below 920 millibars.

Only three Category 5 hurricanes have struck the mainland United States since records began:

• The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys
• Hurricane Camille in 1969 near the mouth of the Mississippi River
• Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in Florida

In 2017, Hurricane Maria was a Category 5 when it devastated Dominica and a Category 4 in Puerto Rico, making it the worst disaster in those islands' histories. When Hurricane Maria hit the mainland U.S., it had weakened to a Category 3.