Archive for August, 2009

Here are a few links from some of the best stories of the week. Enjoy them with a cold one this weekend! Recapping the Michael Vick signing – The shock and surprise caught Scott Tunstall of Inside the Iggels off guard. He recaps the exact moments of how the drama unfolded. Kelly Pavlik vs Paul Williams set for October 3rd – Where would boxing be without Kelly Pavlik? He’s the only fighter with enough stones to put his belt on the line against Williams. Paneech breaksdown the matchup. Beer-chuckers, foul-fumblers and (yes) that damn goat again – No, this is [...]

Bruce Gradkowski helped lead the Oakland Raiders to a 31-10 defeat of the Dallas Cowboys in the preseason opener last night. He was kind enough to give JBB an interview. Just Blog Baby: Congrats on the win tonight, Bruce. Bruce Gradkowski: Oh, hey man. Just call me The Dude. Ya know, on the field I’m The Big Gradkowski. Off the field, I’m just The Dude, or His Dudeness or El Duderino, if you’re not, like, into the whole brevity thing. JBB: Right on, Dude. So, what did you think of the performance tonight? BG: Well, we won, so, yeah…that’s a [...]

We’re counting down the hours until the Oakland Raiders take the field for the first time in 2009. Tonight, the Dallas Cowboys come to town to renew one of the better preseason rivalries in the NFL, if such a thing exists. From 1992 to 2004, the Raiders and Cowboys faced off during the preseason. Since the Cowboys would train in Oxnard, California, it was also common for the two teams to scrimmage as well. Tempers would run hot as the scrimmage games always would have a few brawls and the preseason games themselves tended to be entertaining as well. For [...]

Yesterday, the Oakland Raiders officially released their unofficial depth chart. While the folks at Pro Football Talk have clearly been hitting the snooze on their coverage of the Oakland training camp, astute Raider fans noticed that of the six defensive tackles listed on the depth chart not one of them has ever punched Shane Lechler. In short, one Terdell Sands was noticeably absent. SF Chronicle writer David White has been detailing training camp via his Twitter page and he’s been very unimpressed with the way Sands has performed. Terdell Sands getting stood up a ton, all chest-up and no angle on [...]

Yesterday, I put together a list of the 10 worst moments of the last six years of Raider football. Not one to dwell on the negative and in attempts to send out some good vibes as another season approaches. Here are the 10 best moments of the last six years of Raider football. 10. The 2007 Draft Class – Yes, it is still pretty early for Al Davis and his scouts to take a victory lap on this one. However, if the way some of the members of this class ended 2008 continues in 2009, then we’re looking at one [...]

JBB is up and running on Twitter. If you’re not following then you’re missing out on being a part of the on-line Raider community. As the first preseason game of the year nears, we’ve teamed with CVS Flags to giveaway a 3’ X 5’ Raider flag to the 100th follower of JBB on Twitter. CVS Flags offers high quality flags at great prices. They are all officially licensed and are perfect for either indoor or outdoor usage. Want to fly the silver and black or even your state’s flag? Check out CVS Flags.com. Hurry and be the 100th follower today [...]

Here is a quick lap around the sports world. Enjoy! Brian Westbrook and some kind of sorcery – Everyone around him in training camp is dropping like flies yet for some reason the most fragile Eagle of all is healthy. According to Bootlegger Sports, Westbrook has been reading Oscar Wilde this off-season. Matt Nagy: Eagles QB or Action star? – Scott Tunstall of Inside the Iggles breaksdown the most slept on story of the NFL preseason as Jason Statham turns in his SAG card to backup Donovan McNabb. D-Bowe riding the bench in KC – It hasn’t taken long for the newest coaches [...]

Since that tragic loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII, the Oakland Raiders have been a franchise in free fall. In the six seasons since Chucky exacted his revenge on Al Davis, the Raiders have won just 24 games while losing 72 contests along the way. Here are the 10 worst moments of those last six years. 10. Drafting Michael Huff –While the jury is still out on JaMarcus Russell, Darren McFadden and now Darrius Heyward-Bey, it would appear that the ruling on Michael Huff is a unanimous choice to give his Raider career the death penalty. Huff [...]

Pro Football Talk’s Gregg Rosenthal reports that the Oakland Raiders have once again traded with the New England Patriots. This time the Raiders have dealt hold out defensive end Derrick Burgess to the Northeast. The Raiders are reported to have received a third round pick in 2010 and a fifth round pick in 2011. Now that Burgess is behind the shield of the Hoodie, you can expect all those “scouting videos” he’s sure to watch to return his production to the level it was four years ago. Yeah and I’m sure that Andrew Walter is going to be the Matt [...]

On the calendar, Wednesday was the third day of full contact drills for the Oakland Raiders but on the field it looks likes things are just getting started. Michael Mitchell’s first big hit was the highlight of Tuesday’s session, but it was just a warning shot for what would follow today. The team got word today that Khalif Barnes has suffered the first serious injury of training camp. The MRI revealed a broken fubula suffered on Tuesday. Mario Henderson’s name can be written in ink for the starting left tackle job now that Barnes is out 6-8 weeks with a broken ankle. Now [...]