Raiders news Report: Raiders back to Oakland for 2019 a done deal | Silver and Black Pride What always seemed inevitable has finally happened — the Raiders will be playing football in Oakland next season. After reports last week had the Raiders and the Oakland Coliseum Authority closing in on a deal, that deal is now done, according to Ian Rapoport. What condition Raiders position is in pre-free agency 2019: Edge rusher | Silver and Black Pride It was tempting just to put LOL above. The players listed here have a combined total of 1.0 sack. ONE SACK. That’s what Arden Key had last season. And that was it. None of the others had even a half sack. Their distant league-worst 13 sacks came either from others positions or players no longer on the team. Add Captain Munnerlyn to an already good looking list of upcoming free agent nickel cornerbacks | Silver and Black Pride The 30-year-old Munnerlyn adds some proven nickel cornerback talent to a free agent class which has several who would fit that description including Bryce Callahan and Bradley Roby among others. And more talent on the market is always a good thing. Five moves that would make for a perfect Raiders free agency | Silver and Black Pride As a fan the best part of the offseason is concocting all the different dream scenarios that could potentially play out in free agency and draft. This offseason in particular for the Raiders is especially important. For one they have $71.2 million worth of cap space and two they are stocked with three picks in round one. PPG to paint parts of new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas | TRIB Live PPG announced Monday it has reached a multiyear corporate marketing agreement with the Raiders, who are scheduled to move to Las Vegas in 2020. As part of the marketing agreement, protective and decorative coatings from PPG will be featured in the new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas. AFC West Los Angeles Chargers: Should Melvin Gordon be traded? | Fansided Gordon is entering the last year of his contract and the Chargers are going to have to work out an extension and pay him like the great running back he is. With Philip Rivers eventually turning the team over to a new quarterback in the next few years, the Chargers can pay Gordon $60 million over four years. Could Michael Crabtree be an option for the Denver Broncos? | Predominantly Orange Dare I say recently released Michael Crabtree could be a fit for the Broncos this year? Devin White could be the perfect addition to the Broncos defense | Mile High Report White is raw and needs the kind of coaching Fangio has provided to many a star inside linebacker received over the last decade. With Fangio, White could become the next Patrick Willis in the NFL and that should get every Broncos fan excited about the prospect of them drafting White 10th overall in the draft. 2019 Chiefs free agency: Narrowing down CB options | Chiefs Wire The Kansas City Chiefs will look to add cornerback help for the 2019 season. The team is scheduled to have two players — Steven Nelson and Orlando Scandrick —become free agents. The entire defensive unit struggled in 2018, and upgrading the CB position will be crucial to future success. NFL news NFL reportedly considering rule change banning players from running onto the field for celebrations | CBS Sports After two seasons of relaxed rules that resulted in planned, large-scale, group celebrations that hurt nobody and only enhanced the league’s level of entertainment, the NFL is reportedly weighing a new rule that would curtail those group celebrations. NFL pledges to ‘take appropriate action’ in Robert Kraft case | Washington Post Police in Jupiter, Fla., announced Friday that Kraft would be charged with solicitation of prostitution in connection with an investigation of massage parlors suspected of involvement in human trafficking. Those charges were filed Monday. Top 101 NFL free agents of 2019: DeMarcus Lawrence at No. 1 | NFL.com Gregg Rosenthal and Chris Wesseling combined their personal rankings to formulate NFL.com’s Top 101 NFL Free Agents of 2019. This list will be constantly updated as players put pen to paper. 10 AAF players who have already made a case for the NFL | Sporting News So since the goal of the AAF is to drive talent to the NFL, we thought it’d be good to look at players are on track to make that dream happen. We’ll list 10 — five on offense, and five on defense — players who have already made a huge impact through three weeks. Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray reportedly up to 206 pounds | NFL.com Murray’s slight build will scare some NFL scouts more than his height. Luckily the quarterback can do something about the latter. Bulking up for the combine shows Murray can add additional weight to help protect himself from the 300-pound men trying to break him in half.<doc-sep>The Raiders have reportedly resumed talks with Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum officials. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) To the surprise of no one, the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas still doesn’t appear to be going as planned. The Raiders have resumed talks with Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum officials for the first time since the City of Oakland filed an antitrust lawsuit against the team last December, Larry Beil of San Francisco’s ABC7 News reports. #BREAKING sources tell ABC7 the #Raiders are now in negotiations with Coliseum officials to play in Oakland next season.. It’s the first talks they’ve had since the lawsuit was announced in December — Larry Beil (@LarryBeilABC7) February 8, 2019 It’s not everyday you see a team re-engage with an entity that once said it “brazenly violated federal antitrust law” in a court filing, but, well, it’s becoming clear that the Raiders need Oakland more than they thought right now. Raiders still looking for a 2019 home Because the Raiders’ stadium in their new home of Las Vegas won’t be ready until the 2020 season, the team has been left to find a single-season venue for 2019 after pulling out of a tentative lease at the Coliseum. You might not have thought finding a venue for two preseason games, eight regular-season games and potentially the playoffs (probably not a huge worry) would be this difficult, but the Raiders have struggled quite a bit. Most recently, the team reached a deal with the San Francisco Giants to play at their newly named Oracle Park, but that required the San Francisco 49ers to waive their territorial rights for the city. That reportedly did not happen. A truly bonkers idea of the team playing home games in London next season also doesn’t seem to be happening at this point. Now, the Raiders appear to be left with two options: share a stadium with the 49ers or go back to Oakland. Story continues Raiders still have some offers on the table Fortunately for the Raiders, a $7.5 million rent offer at the Coliseum is still in the table, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Such a return would be pretty embarrassing for a team that probably thought it would be saying goodbye to Oakland at this point, and lord knows that Oakland fans might not be so gracious, but at least it’s there. The Niners have also reportedly expressed that they would be open to sharing Levi’s Stadium with the Raiders next year, despite blocking the Oracle Park move. Again, not a great option, but at least an option for a team in an awkward situation. With talks between the Raiders and the Coliseum reportedly resuming, it appears that the team might be going with the former option. More from Yahoo Sports: • Things to know about the new football league • Super Bowl MVP shaves his beard on ‘Ellen’ for charity • NBA star’s pizza commercial useless after trade • Vonn suffers freak injury before training run<doc-sep>
The deal isn’t totally finished so let’s not book those tickets to the East Bay to see the Raiders just yet, but it looks as if the Raiders will have their swan song in Oakland in 2019 before they move permanently to Las Vegas. That’s about as good as it can get for Oakland fans. Here’s why: Last season stunk That’s pretty simple and straight the point. Last season stunk. The Raiders stunk. They had one of the worst records in the league. They traded away two of their best players and then saw those players crush it on their new teams. Last season stunk. They have to leave Oakland with a better year. The fans deserve it Imagine if the Black Hole in Oakland didn’t get a proper send off. That would not be very nice to the man who paints his face for every home game and has to find his spiked shoulder pads which have been in the attic for most of the offseason. There was kind of nowhere else to go San Antonio didn’t want them anymore. There were rumors about Tuscon and Birmingham. St. Louis probably doesn’t want to deal with the NFL. They couldn’t have played an entire season internationally. Los Angeles is an over-filled market with two teams now. The Niners wouldn’t let them play in San Francisco proper since they own the rights to that territory. The Raiders couldn’t jump to Las Vegas a year early because Sam Boyd Stadium wasn’t equipped for NFL games. The Raiders were kind of out of options here. The last thing the Raiders need is more chaos Moving to a new city isn’t easy. It’s not as if the Raiders are just going to seamlessly move operations. It didn’t happen with the Rams when they moved to Los Angeles. It didn’t happen with the Oilers when they moved to Tennessee and became the Titans. It didn’t happen when the Browns left Cleveland and moved to Baltimore to become the Ravens. Imagine having to move twice in two years. People hate doing that with apartments, nevermind football teams. There’s an extra year on the deal There is reportedly a team option for 2020. That’s good because construction delays are very much part of building a new stadium. It’s good for Oakland Oakland was going to lose the Warriors and Raiders in the same year? That’s not cool, guys. The A’s were going to be the only team left and they need a new stadium. Imagine the stress of trying to figure out how to keep the A’s around. It’s a lot. Marshawn Lynch had to go to a city council meeting and fight for the A’s. Marshawn Lynch The Raiders staying in Oakland makes it more likely that Lynch will come back and play for the Raiders and we all deserve as much Marshawn Lynch in our life as possible.