Jon Gruden loves veteran players and the Raiders, as much as any team, offer them second chances at continuing careers and proving others wrong, both of which the former Green Bay star can pursue.
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New defensive coordinator Paul Guenther and his 4-3 scheme hoping to improve all that ailed the Raiders last season.
If anger among Raiders fans about the relocation to Southern Nevada was a central theme at last year’s training camp, such a sentiment has now seemed to move toward more of an acceptance.
The sticker shock you knew would be attached to seats in the soon-to-be palace of the Raiders, set to open in 2020, is now front and center for you to see and bemoan, with personal seat licenses going on sale Tuesday in reserved-seating areas.
Raiders coach Jon Gruden wants, needs, desperately craves the image of guys in full pads hitting one another, meaning he won’t be all that enamored with any award-winning Cabernets.
The veteran is among several players granted one-year contracts, whether hoping previous magic returns to certain games or simply inserting an experienced body at a position of need.
The words and actions of coaches and management and anyone with a final say on things have made it incredibly clear that Conley is the team’s No. 1 and best hope at cornerback entering the season.
You figure if Rod Woodson had this many answers about all that is wrong with the Raiders, he would have imparted enough wisdom as an assistant coach last season to allow the NFL team a better journey than its 6-10 record.
The team has more holes than Donut Mania, meaning head coach Jon Gruden and general manager Reggie McKenzie will look to land some immediate skill.
It is certain with the building of an NFL stadium and arrival of the Raiders, the NFL will award Las Vegas a Super Bowl, already one of the biggest days each year for Southern Nevada.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick can talk for hours about the influence his father had on what is the pre-eminent coaching resume in NFL history, having grown up around those practices and meetings at Navy.
Brady will try on Sunday to win a sixth Super Bowl title with the Patriots, a feat that assuredly places the quarterback among the greatest sport champions in American history.
We might be looking at the most efficiently run Super Bowl week in recent memory, and perhaps all memories.
The Vikings aren’t playing in their stadium this week, just another loop in the postseason belt of despair that has included four Super Bowl losses.
The Patriots meet the Eagles on Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium, where New England tries for a sixth title while simultaneously annihilating the one obstruction many naively believed could derail their journey back to the game.
