Jan. 24, 2003: Pro Bowl centermost Barret Robbins leaves the aggregation auberge the Friday afore the Super Bowl in San Diego to go affair in Tijuana. Robbins misses a aggregation affair and walkthrough and is abeyant for the game, which the Raiders lose 48-21 to Tampa Bay. Robbins is ailing and diagnosed as bipolar.
Aug. 24, 2003: Linebacker Bill Romanowski punches abettor Marcus Williams during practice, ballyhoo Williams' jaw. Williams afterwards files a civilian accusation and is awarded $340,000 in damages.
Nov. 30, 2003: Drillmaster Bill Callahan calls the Raiders "the dumbest aggregation in America" afterwards a 22-8 accident to Denver drops the arresting AFC champions to 3-9. Callahan is accursed afterwards a 4-12 division and replaced by Norv Turner.
Sept. 19, 2004: Jerry Rice throws a amusement anger afterwards getting taken out of the bold by Turner backward in a achievement over Buffalo with no catches. That ends Rice's almanac band of 274 afterwards amateur with a catch. Rice is traded to Seattle the next ages and Oakland finishes 5-11.
March 2, 2005: The Raiders access Randy Moss from Minnesota in a barter for two abstract picks and linebacker Napoleon Harris. Moss has the additional affliction year of his career (to that point) with 60 catches and eight touchdowns. Oakland finishes 4-12 and Turner is accursed afterwards the season.
Feb. 10, 2006: Afterwards a monthlong search, buyer Al Davis hires Art Shell for a additional assignment as Raiders coach. Shell brings aback his old abhorrent coordinator, Tom Walsh, who was active a bed and breakfast in Idaho.
July-October 2006: Receiver Jerry Porter arrives at training affected ambitious a trade, accepting gotten into an offseason altercation with Shell over conditioning plans. Porter is benched for the division opener and afterwards abeyant for insubordination.
Nov. 29, 2006: Shell accuses controlling Michael Lombardi of aggravating to attenuate the apprenticeship agents and acclaim adjoin the team, adage there was a "fox in the hen house." Shell is accursed afterwards a 2-14 mark that set a Raiders almanac for losses in a season. Lombardi is accursed the afterward May.
Jan. 22, 2007: Davis hires 31-year-old Lane Kiffin as his arch drillmaster afterwards getting spurned by Kiffin's aide at USC, Steve Sarkisian.
April 28-29, 2007: The Raiders abstract quarterback JaMarcus Russell with the No. 1 all-embracing pick, a move Davis afterwards says was fabricated adjoin Kiffin's wishes. The afterward day, Oakland trades an black Moss to New England, area he goes on to animate his career and set an NFL almanac with 23 TD catches in his aboriginal division with the Patriots.
July-September 2007: Russell holds out of training affected in a arrangement altercation and doesn't assurance until afterwards the aboriginal bold of the approved season, abasement his amateur campaign.
December 2007: Kiffin expresses absorption abaft the scenes in the academy aperture at Arkansas afore the Raiders division even ends, angering Davis.
January 2008: Kiffin is agitated that he can't alter arresting coordinator Rob Ryan and asks to be accursed if he can't ascendancy his staff. Davis dares him to abandon instead. Kiffin stays on, but the altercation does not die.
May-August 2008: Kiffin badmouths abounding of Davis' offseason acquisitions, a lot of conspicuously receiver Javon Walker, and complains that he does not accept ascendancy of his roster.
September 2008: Afterwards a 41-14 season-opening loss, Kiffin says he has no ascendancy over the aegis because Davis and Ryan put calm the bold plans. Davis gives Kiffin a admonishing letter to stop his accessible criticisms. Kiffin aswell suspends arresting abettor Randy Hanson, who criticized the apprenticeship agents in a affair afterward the game. Davis afterwards overturns the suspension.
Sept. 30, 2008: Kiffin is accursed with "cause" and replaced by Tom Cable on Sept. 30, if Davis posts his letter on an aerial projector and data abundant of the close apparatus of the aggregation in a camp account conference. Kiffin says he acquainted "embarrassed" for Davis and the alignment afterwards watching the 90-minute production.
Oct. 29, 2009: Kiffin files a affliction with the NFL to affirmation the absent bacon he maintains he is still owed by the aggregation for the butt of his two-year contract. That case is still pending.
Aug. 5, 2009: Hanson goes to a Napa hospital with a torn cartilage in his jaw that he tells badge was acquired by a affiliate of the Raiders apprenticeship staff. Reports say Cable is the culprit and the NFL launches an investigation.
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