Al Speaks
Al Davis gave a press conference today and spoke to the Jerry Porter situation and the Raiders in general. This is Mr. Davis' take on Pouter:
Davis backed the way Shell has handled disgruntled receiver Porter and didn't believe Porter's trade demand or problems with Shell would hinder the team. Davis said he told Porter and his agent that the Raiders would be willing to trade him -- for equal value in players or draft picks and if Porter gives back the $4 million bonus he received this year. Porter has declined to talk to the media since making his demand public last week.
"If you think the locker room is that important, I don't," Davis said. "But we're talking about one guy. And I don't think he'll make any impression whatsoever. He's a good guy, but he just lost his way a little bit."
So we see, Al agrees. Pouter has lost The Raider Way.
Now it is time to see whether Jerry 5150 will put up or shut up.
The line has been drawn. Your choice is clear:
A. Pay back the bonus money you received before going gonzo green gorilla ape$h!t this offseason and your wish to be traded will be granted.
OR
B. The Raiders will keep you in house and deal with you, which may include benchings or demotions as needed to get you to follow the way.
Is it all about the Benjamin$, Jerry? LaVar Arrington wanted out of DC badly enough to give back his signing bonus...
Or are you capable of stepping up for a full season instead of just the last eight games of one?
Show me the $, Jerry...
Watch Mr. Davis' press conference on John Madden here.
Read the entire press conference here.
Read more of Al Davis' latest takes here. And please note Al states plainly that the Raiders will stay in the Davis family, with Amy Trask on board, as predicted here not long ago.
Davis backed the way Shell has handled disgruntled receiver Porter and didn't believe Porter's trade demand or problems with Shell would hinder the team. Davis said he told Porter and his agent that the Raiders would be willing to trade him -- for equal value in players or draft picks and if Porter gives back the $4 million bonus he received this year. Porter has declined to talk to the media since making his demand public last week.
"If you think the locker room is that important, I don't," Davis said. "But we're talking about one guy. And I don't think he'll make any impression whatsoever. He's a good guy, but he just lost his way a little bit."
So we see, Al agrees. Pouter has lost The Raider Way.
Now it is time to see whether Jerry 5150 will put up or shut up.
The line has been drawn. Your choice is clear:
A. Pay back the bonus money you received before going gonzo green gorilla ape$h!t this offseason and your wish to be traded will be granted.
OR
B. The Raiders will keep you in house and deal with you, which may include benchings or demotions as needed to get you to follow the way.
Is it all about the Benjamin$, Jerry? LaVar Arrington wanted out of DC badly enough to give back his signing bonus...
Or are you capable of stepping up for a full season instead of just the last eight games of one?
Show me the $, Jerry...
Watch Mr. Davis' press conference on John Madden here.
Read the entire press conference here.
Read more of Al Davis' latest takes here. And please note Al states plainly that the Raiders will stay in the Davis family, with Amy Trask on board, as predicted here not long ago.
posted by Stick'em at 6:45 PM
3 Comments:
porter is backed agaisnt a wall because the raiders dont need him as badly as he needs them. doug gabriel will be far better than porter ever was. porter needs to cough up the 4 mil and hit the road or arts gonna bench his ass for 2 years and then he'll be as worthless to any other team as he's been to the raiders. he has done nothing for the raiders to make any of us fans worry about losing him.
Amen to that, brother! One way or the other, Porter needs to take his medicine. The front office should have cut this pouty loser loose two years ago. Chucky benched him and so will Shell.
He is the ultimate wing man. It is amazing to me that one individual can provide ballast for an entire Raider Nation huddled in unstable fashion on the right wing of an airplane.
Yet that is just what Al Davis did in his latest interview. Speaking to the issue of Jerry Porter, Al brought up Art Powell--who from 1963-66 caught 254 balls for the Raiders totalling just under 4,500 yards for an average of 17.7 yards per catch and 50 touchdowns. Then he was shuffled off to Buffalo for a kid named Daryl Lamonica.
Jerry Porter is capable of playing in the NFL. He's big and fast and he has beautiful abdominal muscles. Yet a 77-year old man in a walker named "Star" leveled Porter in two sentences. That, my Raider faithful, is powerful.
I do not always agree with Al Davis. But I love his interviews. I don't like many of the things he has done. I don't particularly care for his repeated statements of caution. I know I will not like him if the Raiders lose on September 11.
But I'm not leaving my wing man.
Craig Parker
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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