I hope we received a third-round or a fourth-round pick from the Patriots in the 2010 draft or the 2011 draft.

The Pats again? First Moss and now Burgess. We create our own worst enemy time and time again!! No more trades in division or with the frickin Pats should be allowed!! But maybe someone up there knew what they were doing getting Ellis. I hope he rocks this year.

Also, thanks to Wern for breaking the news for us.

according to Jerry McDonalds twitter….

BOTH picks (3rd round and 5th round) are 2010 picks…

While conflicting reports have stated 2010 and 2011, I don’t mind which year the picks are in.

this is a damn good trade. we got a mid round and a late round pick for a guy that wasn’t going to play this year anyways. he probably would’ve been cut if he wasn’t dealt to NE.

Paul Wexler has his take on the trade, but it’s mostly the same things we’ve talked about.

Reports still flying around as to what the Raiders received. No one from the Raiders has confirmed anything as of this posting.

Burgess signed as an unrestricted free agent in 2005, made the Pro Bowl in his first two seasons, registering 16 sacks in 2005 and 11 sacks in 2006. Burgess’ production dropped the past two seasons, and he had only 3 1/2 sacks last season.

Will not be forgotten. I will miss the pose he makes everytime he gets a sack.

And the dude was unhappy here. Good riddance.

David White talked about the Derrick Burgess trade and you can see the video if you scroll down just a little bit.

Look what Moss did after he left Oakland unhappy. The Pats play good D and the last thing I want to see,don’t know about you guys, is Burgess tearing it up for the F’N Pats!!!!

I don’t Care that he was traded, I wanted him gone because I’m starting to believe in Cable’s “no distractions” philosophy.

However, why must we always trade to the Pats? It makes me both furious and nervous. Moss, Burgess, Walter, Jordan, I believe Sulak had a workout there, and I’m sure I’m forgetting someone.

Well, there goes another veteran to Bill Belichick, he understands the value of vets. But Burgess needed to go he didn’t want to be here, see ya!!! We will do fine without him and he wasn’t producing at the same level anyway.

Yeah, the Pats seem to have a roster full of Raiders, but who cares, at the end of the day you have to beat who is in front of you. At least it isn’t Denver, Kansas City, or San Diego with our players.

I personally like the trade. This goes along with the “purge” since Cable has been in charge. We need players who have pride to wear the silver and black. Not to mention we got two draft picks. In my opinion, good trade for the Raiders. Better than being a disgruntled roster spot, right?
I just remember players like Jerry Porter (even though Art Shell was a huge fail) wasting a roster spot. The future is bright!

I don’t think this helps the Pats enough to warrant a third round pick. By the looks of Adalius Thomas (who was, and is a better player than Burgess), BB hasn’t really done wonders with overrated veteran LB’s. And this is a guy who has never really played LB in a 3-4.

A third rounder (and a fifth too), is a great haul for a guy who really wouldn’t of made much of an impact on the team anyway. I just wish now that we wouldn’t have cut Sulak.

and I hope this is true

The Patriots surrendered 2010 third-round and fourth-round picks, with a condition: If the Patriots pick up a fifth-round pick in 2010 (they’re pick was traded to Tampa Bay for tight end Alex Smith), that pick will go to Oakland instead of the fourth-round pick.

Burgess wasn’t a high value trade based upon his recent production. Plus we will get to add picks sobeit if it is in a year or two. At the end of the day we rid ourselves of a player that didn’t want to be here. And what gets me is after a less than average year he decided to sit out. Good for Oaktown in getting something for this guy now. The Raiders are not looking bad, my only hope is for our offense to be effective in the pass game, J-Russ has to get his timing and chemistry right. And remember, we have Sammy Parker, and some other receivers we don’t even talk about, Sammy is out of Oregon and he is a good receiver, he played up there with Onterrio Smith out of Grant High in Sac & the Minn Vikings before he wrecked his career. I see promise for real improvement this year.

I can care less about the Pats or any other team for that matter. Right now it’s Raiders time!!! And Cable may get something done, we should at worse be 2nd in our division if we play, and since San Diego was 8-8 if they falter again, who knows..We can press to win the Div. We just need to score touchdowns..

seeing as Burgess was clearly no longer happy to be here. But it still makes me sad to see him go.

But the injury to Khalif is still fucking with me. I think if he was still injury-free, I would be a whole lot more electric. Also, I wanted to watch Frantz Joseph. Well, I guess we can’t have everything.
So our o-line is
LT – Mario
LG – ?. Injury to Gallery. I hope he returns.
C – Satele
RG – Cooper
RT – Green. Hopefully Khalif when he returns

Our line is screwed up right now.

Trading a Burgess for future draft picks does not make any sense. Draft picks are not even guaranteed to make the team. The Raiders needed someone who could contribute in reture, especially with the Khalif & Gallery injuries, we need more depth on the O-line. The idea of having Cornell Green start at the RT spot again is downright scary. Yet we trade Burgess for draft picks instead of a starter for starter deal. Makes no sense.

Gallery is fine, Barnes is banged up but it’s not season ending or anything like that, and don’t think the Raiders don’t see what we see. This coach seems to have common sense. 1. We got rid of Burgess and his contract, let the Pat’s deal with him next season. 2. We have draft picks to trade for a Vet if one comes available that fits our team needs. The left tackle position is the key and I believe M. Hen can handle that, of course, you always need depth and it will be addressed. I believe it is far too early to panic, lets see how things go against Dallas when our 1 is against their 1.

We are early in camp there will be guys getting released that can play but were released due to their team being loaded at the position. Let’s just give Cable a chance, he has demonstrated he understands football, just the fact that he had guys work on their mental game for 5 days was MAJOR, man that’s brilliance!!! Our O line if it fails we had better hurry up and sign Vick, at least he can get out of the way….

I don’t like this trade at all he is one of our best defensive players and our defense already isnt that great

Though football is a game we all love, it is a business at this level. Burgess a player under contract decided he did not want to play for Oakland…sobeit, however, you don’t get long term contract extensions based upon your play from 3 years ago. Burgess could have come out and earned his extension, but he chose not to.. This is not a bad trade when you are removing a negative influence from the roster, he would have been a distraction, so goes the business of pro football.

We will be fine without him, and I believe in the players we have in camp now. This Coaching staff is adding systems that should help our production across the board. Do I hate to see Burgess go, of course, but if he is going to go, now is the time to do it in that he doesn’t want to be with the Raiders.