Interview Updates, My Active Imagination, and Adam Schefter Doubts the Oakland Raiders

by Rich Langford on May 12, 2011 11:54 AM PDT

Raider Nation, my day of Oakland draftee interviews has started off with a whimper and not with a bang. I was under the belief that I was scheduled to speak with DVD at 11 today. I called precisely at 11 to find that his phone was not accepting incoming calls (I didn't even know that was a cell phone option). So, I called again at 11:05 and found I had made progress to a ringing telephone and no answer. Bolstered by the progress I called again at 11:10 and went straight to voice mail (which I took for taking a step back from the ringing phone).

So, I left this message: "Okay, I see how it is. Mr. Hot Shot Rookie wants to big time me. Do you know who I am? There will be repercussions! About 14 months ago I was suffering from a bad cough and I went to the nearest convenient store for a bottle of cough syrup. When walking down the aisle I saw JaMarcus Russell walking up the aisle with every single bottle in his hands, and I was like, 'Dude, let me have just one of those.' And JaMarcus told me, 'I'm a NFL Quarterback. I don't care about your cough.' Enraged, I told him, 'Nobody takes the last bottle of cough syrup from me! You'll never play in this league again!' And do you know where JaMarcus isn't now, DeMarcus? Yeah, the NFL. That's where he isn't.'"

I must now stress that not one word of the last paragraph was true. Jump over for things that happened outside of my head....

I did try to call DVD, however. And after I failed to hook up with him I saw that the person who scheduled the interview for me had left me a polite email asking if I could reschedule the interview for 12:30. I guess I should have checked that first! All of which I am taking as karma as I just got done spending my 20s being late for or missing appointments altogether.

In the meantime, I thought I'd throw out for discussion the fact that Adam Schefter just told me via my ESPN chanel that the Raiders and Broncos were lockout losers of the AFC West. He cited the fact that new coach Hue Jackson was anxious to implement his new system, and the impending loss of Nnamdi Asomugha.

He realizes that Hue Jackson was running his system last year right? I imagine the Chiefs offense will see more changes than the Raiders as they switch offensive coordinators and play callers.

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It's interesting to hear media types talk about lock out winners and losers

As they attempt to maintain a job which has no current meaning since there is relatively nothing to cover they will continue to have to make-up shit to get people talking. I guess the next step will be for ESPN & the NFL network to go TMZ and show pictures of Payton Manning picking up his newspaper in the morning to analize whether it will affect the upcoming CBA and his ever impending potential maybe free agency status, all the while Reggie Bush is in Vegas shooting the latest reality series with T.O. at the Hard Rock. This needs to end, or the court of appeals will be responsible for the end of the Peter King era as his MMQ will continue to be focused on how well his dog ran his morning shuttle.

"I’m back to my first love – the Oakland Raiders and working with the Offensive Line. I’m a Raider for life." -- Steve Wisniewski

by S Jay Bruin on May 12, 2011 12:07 PM PDT reply actions

Good to hear that DVD lives life on the edge

S-O-B: ITS HOW I ROLL, DEAL WITH IT.
"I did the (2010) draft. ... I made a trade for Seymour. Gave up the first-rounder this year. I could tell you why. You may not think it was a good trade. I thought it was a great trade. Still do. [Al Davis 1/1911]

by Sons-of-Blanda on May 12, 2011 3:42 PM PDT reply actions

JaMarcus Russell?

Did he even invite you to the party/three 6 mafia video shoot?

(Great story by the way…)

"I am not prettier than your girlfriend, you just like ugly girls." - an extremely confident man, maybe a pretty b*tch.

One day about a year ago, I called my GF after work, I was going to give her "the bizness". I got to her house and I told her I was going to give her my "Weapon of Mass Destruction". We did it. I finished i under a minute. After that, she said it was more like a "Debacle of Mass Eruption". Yes. It IS pathetic.

by DEBACLE OF MASS ERUPTION. on May 12, 2011 5:29 PM PDT reply actions