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Take away Rob Ryan’s rough exterior and family legacy. What do you got? Honestly, sit back and think about this one. The answer: A sloppy-looking defensive coordinator whose five-year average ranking for his defenses is 22nd in the NFL. I’m not writing this out of bit ...

So long, Greg Knapp. We hardly knew you. No, literally. We hardly knew the guy and his grandiose plans for an Oakland Raiders West Coast offensive scheme (for all West Coast offensive schemes are grandiose), any potential for such washed away in 2007 by the continuous ...

OK, so the Oakland Raiders posted their best season since 2004 this past year. Sounds great. But when you’re consistently awful, being just bad sometimes makes you look good. If you made some sense of that last statement, the next one shouldn’t come as much of a surpri ...

While many a hometown fan enjoys the schadenfreude-heavy firing of an overwhelmed, incompetent and/or just plain wrong man for the head coaching job, a far greater highlight of the NFL offseason is the buildup to the hire. As with so many other processes in which this ...

With the Oakland Raiders’ 2009 offseason officially underway, it’s about that time where all the rules get thrown to the side of the road and the real fun begins. Yes, folks, we can now begin speculating Al Davis’ perennial offseason moves. This offseason, Davis has 1 ...

OK, so this one may be a stretch. But if this was September, not January, it’d be much more than stretch. I’d be run out of town for saying this … The Oakland Raiders’ 2008 player of the year is Johnnie Lee Higgins. The once-fumble-happy, absent-minded 25-year-old wi ...

Frustrating, heartbreaking, infuriating: Say what you will about the 2008 Oakland Raiders’ season, it certainly wasn’t boring. Without further ado, then, a brief recap of the highlights, lowlights and of course the intrigue that made 2008 so very ... interesting for the ...

Congratulations first of all to the Oakland Raiders for Sunday's fan-pleasing win over the once-prospective playoff Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Not only does Oakland finish a rarely pretty 2008 campaign on a two-game win streak, but the team now seems next to assured of an ex ...

As the NFL season ends, ESPN.com, ever devoted to immediately defining sports history in order to hurriedly allow another Top 10 list that passes as a column, is this week getting misty-eyed sentimental about the 2008 campaign. While in the Raider Nation, 2008 will pro ...

With the Oakland Raiders’ well-deserved and long-coming victory over the Houston Texans, RealFootball365.com need not even wish the Raider Nation a Merry Christmas; instead, the Raiders themselves brought the faithful a nicely gift-wrapped package of a slick 60 minutes ...