The Respect of our team is going down the Drain - and We're to Blame.

Hey FYI! We pay the bills around here buying merchandise, tickets and every other f’ing thing that Al can dream up to sell to use in order to pay for his pipe dream picks and stubborn signings of FAs. I will agree we should not show eagerness for Al’s demise (death or otherwise). However the fans need to show their displeasure of the way the team is being managed. I was reading an article on Yahoo Sports and he summed it up quite nicely. The Raiders over the past few years have made some picks and signed some players that make it so easy to pick “the low hanging fruit you cant resist put to take advantage”.
We have so much greatness in our history. If the stubborn SOB would take some REAL advice from IMPARTIAL people and make some SANE choices the respect would be there.

They are the one’s to blame for their horrible decision making. The fact that we still stand behind them at some level is somewhat surprising. I don’t want to see the team lose, but this team keeps doing the same stupid stuff. Until he turns this thing around, Al Davis can no longer be considered a good judge of talent on the field or in coaching. It’s sad to watch Al Davis turn his legacy into a joke, but he and he alone takes that blame.

But there’s no doubt the disrespect this team garners comes from Ls and lack of Ws. It has nothing to do with the best, most loyal fans in the world. Their downfall is that they think their efforts will actually help, when in reality it probably makes Al want to say “fuck you” to them even more, and ignore their requests.

because I’ve us fall too far based on one man’s hubris. Al Davis is one of the all-time greats when it comes to talent evaluation, but his time has passed. Things have changed on the NFL landscape and he hasn’t adjusted his philosophy to account for it. The last great teams in Silver and Black were built in a departure from his ideals, and they were built by Bruce Allen and Jon Gruden. His way has turned his once proud franchise, and once the marquee franchise in the league, into a laughingstock that gets mentioned with the Detroit Lions. It’s time for a change.

I still root for the Raiders, and I still proudly wear my Silver and Black, and I do so in the home of the Raiders biggest rivals, Kansas City. I will remain loyal, but I can’t recall ever being so frustrated with the direction the franchise is going.

I’m going to buy some paint and a roller and cover it myself

what they need is to play smarter at times and not down to their comp u couild have won 9 games lasy year

just because some discontented Raider fans and a few Haters put up a billboard that asks Al to do what every other team in the NFL is doing and hire a GM. I think we can all agree that its a good idea. Back when the Raiders were good we had GMs and others around Al and ideas were kicked around and discussed. Now Al is all by himself and the results speak for themselves.
The Respect of this team has been down long before the Billboard went up

THese guys don’t live here, yet they are planning on putting up stupid billboards all over the place. These things cost over 5k each, and they want to put up 100 of them? They’re going to spend 500k on billboards? Do something responsible with that money, donate it to the Oakland schools, or the Oakland childrens hospital.