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PsyDaL

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Read this in the SF Chronicle this morning....

Bush not pleased about his move to fullback
David White, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Running back Michael Bush awoke a fullback Monday, and he didn't even know it.

"Yeah, that's all I'm going to say about that," Bush said after Monday's practice, which was done behind closed gates in Alameda for the first time since training camp started.

Bush's body language did the talking for him.

When met by reporters in the locker room, he dropped his chin into his chest and let out a deep sigh. Consider this the latest wild turn in a 16-month pro career full of them.

The Raiders drafted Bush with the first pick of the fourth round in 2007. A Heisman hopeful at Louisville, he was touted as a future star once his broken leg recovered.

Instead, he spent half the season on the physically unable to perform list and the other half on injured reserve, even though Bush said his leg was healthy and ready to play.

Bush was made a short-yardage specialist in the offseason. When fullback Oren O'Neal was lost for the season with a knee injury Saturday, Bush was moved into his spot.

"I've always been a team player," Bush ended up saying. "So, it's one of those things. You just suck it up, go about your business and try to have some fun with it."

Bush certainly has the size to be a fullback. He's 6-foot-1 and 245 pounds with above-average tailback speed and dependable hands.

His ability to catch screen passes could secure playing time while he learns the position.

"Mike is a very mature guy, so if he has to line up there, he will," fullback Justin Griffith said. "He'll get it done."

Coach Lane Kiffin did not discuss the position change during his news conference.
 
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Bush as fullback will open things up for Fargas/McFadden. Actually moving Bush to fullback gives us another receiving option out of the backfield.
 
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I was wondering how the Radiers was going to navigate handing the ball off to Mcfadden, Bush, and Fargas at running back because there is not that many hand offs to go around.
 
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Oakland Raiders can't get no pub

Faithful readers of the Cohn Zohn surely have noticed that in the past few weeks Lowell has written extensively about the Niners -- specifically he did lengthy interviews with Alex Smith, Mike Martz and Mike Nolan. These are interviews 49er fans crave.

Lowell did not do interviews with similarly important figures on the Raiders. Lowell didn't even try. The Raider Nation may think Lowell's lack of Raider interviews reflects a bias against the Raiders on Lowell's part. That's incorrect. Lowell writes way more on the Niners because the Niners -- like the Warriors -- go out of their way to make coaches and players available to the media, including Lowell. They made Nolan available to Lowell even though Nolan had hard feelings against Lowell because of things Lowell wrote.

The Niners understand the meaning and value of good public relations, and they want their people to be accountable. In other words, they go about their business in a professional manner.

Not the Raiders. This is the Raiders' business. But they have no one who can or will set up an interview for Lowell or other columnists.

Here's an example. I wanted to interview left tackle Kwame Harris in training camp and phoned one of the Raiders PR staff to ask Harris if he was agreeable. Let me take that back. I phoned someone I thought could help. I don't know if he's on the PR staff -- for so many people on the Raiders you never know exactly what they do or what their job title is. This person said he would talk to Harris for me. This person, by the way, is a very nice person, someone I like and he made a sincere effort to get Harris for me. But he couldn't do it. Not because he's inept. Because the Raiders are not used to setting up normal kinds of interviews and have almost no mechanism which helps them do it.

This person suggested I drive to Napa, anyway, and get Harris on my own. He said Harris is nice -- he is -- and surely would agree to an interview. So I drove to Napa and approached Harris after practice and sure enough he said yes. I admit I said I went to Stanford as a way of catching his interest. I felt like a dope doing it but I did it.

I would like to talk with Lane Kiffin for 20 minutes as I talked to Nolan for 20 minutes. But I don't know whom to ask. If I accost Kiffin on the practice field and ask for 20 minutes I'm sure he'll look at me like I'm nuts. I'm a pretty good interviewer and I could give Kiffin a chance to say interesting things about himself. I could let Kiffin come across as a person. But it won't happen because the Raiders don't understand the value of fans reading profiles of their people.

I'll end with this anectode told to me by a local public-relations professional. A few years ago, he attended the NFL Combine in Indianapolis where he bumped into Al Davis in an elevator. They made small talk. "What do you do?" Davis asked him. The PR professional told him what he does. "Oh, we don't even care about public relations," Davis shot back.

We've noticed, Al. And that attitude hasn't helped your team one bit.


http://cohn.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2255790&mode=

lmfao
 
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Chree said:
Because "your" organization is a mess
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THIS JOURNALIST WHO WROTE THIS IS A KNOWN NINER FAN WHO HATES THE RAIDERS. DUDE IS A JOKE. HE WRITES SHIT LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME ABOUT THE RAIDERS. CHREE, YOU GOT NERVE TALKING ABOUT ANYONE’S ORGANIZATION BEING A MESS. THE NINERS HAVE EASILY THE WORST OWNERSHIP IN FOOTBALL. THE YORKS ARE A JOKE. THEY ARE A DISGRACE TO THE NFL. AL DAVIS IS IN THE HALL OF FAME. END OF STORY.

PS- DON’T MAKE ME EXPOSE WHY YOU REALLY HATE THE RAIDERS SO MUCH.
 
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Chree said:
Lowell did not do interviews with similarly important figures on the Raiders. Lowell didn't even try. The Raider Nation may think Lowell's lack of Raider interviews reflects a bias against the Raiders on Lowell's part. That's incorrect. Lowell writes way more on the Niners because the Niners -- like the Warriors -- go out of their way to make coaches and players available to the media, including Lowell. They made Nolan available to Lowell even though Nolan had hard feelings against Lowell because of things Lowell wrote.

The Niners understand the meaning and value of good public relations, and they want their people to be accountable. In other words, they go about their business in a professional manner.

Not the Raiders. This is the Raiders' business. But they have no one who can or will set up an interview for Lowell or other columnists.

Here's an example. I wanted to interview left tackle Kwame Harris in training camp and phoned one of the Raiders PR staff to ask Harris if he was agreeable. Let me take that back. I phoned someone I thought could help. I don't know if he's on the PR staff -- for so many people on the Raiders you never know exactly what they do or what their job title is. This person said he would talk to Harris for me. This person, by the way, is a very nice person, someone I like and he made a sincere effort to get Harris for me. But he couldn't do it. Not because he's inept. Because the Raiders are not used to setting up normal kinds of interviews and have almost no mechanism which helps them do it.

This person suggested I drive to Napa, anyway, and get Harris on my own. He said Harris is nice -- he is -- and surely would agree to an interview. So I drove to Napa and approached Harris after practice and sure enough he said yes. I admit I said I went to Stanford as a way of catching his interest. I felt like a dope doing it but I did it.

I would like to talk with Lane Kiffin for 20 minutes as I talked to Nolan for 20 minutes. But I don't know whom to ask. If I accost Kiffin on the practice field and ask for 20 minutes I'm sure he'll look at me like I'm nuts. I'm a pretty good interviewer and I could give Kiffin a chance to say interesting things about himself. I could let Kiffin come across as a person. But it won't happen because the Raiders don't understand the value of fans reading profiles of their people.

I'll end with this anectode told to me by a local public-relations professional. A few years ago, he attended the NFL Combine in Indianapolis where he bumped into Al Davis in an elevator. They made small talk. "What do you do?" Davis asked him. The PR professional told him what he does. "Oh, we don't even care about public relations," Davis shot back.

We've noticed, Al. And that attitude hasn't helped your team one bit.


http://cohn.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2255790&mode=

lmfao
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Solitary 1 said:
THIS JOURNALIST WHO WROTE THIS IS A KNOWN NINER FAN WHO HATES THE RAIDERS. DUDE IS A JOKE. HE WRITES SHIT LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME ABOUT THE RAIDERS. CHREE, YOU GOT NERVE TALKING ABOUT ANYONE’S ORGANIZATION BEING A MESS. THE NINERS HAVE EASILY THE WORST OWNERSHIP IN FOOTBALL. THE YORKS ARE A JOKE. THEY ARE A DISGRACE TO THE NFL. AL DAVIS IS IN THE HALL OF FAME. END OF STORY.

PS- DON’T MAKE ME EXPOSE WHY YOU REALLY HATE THE RAIDERS SO MUCH.
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I dont see where he says hes a niner fan, but it do say why he covers the Niners more than the Raiders, Unfortunately, the niners may have the worst ownership(Al Davis is very close to being worse), but the Raiders franchise is ran terribly, thats what the article is about, if you read it, you would realize this, btw, isnt this the oakland raiders offseason thread, where you post news, articles, etc? All i did was contribute to the thread until tony got all butthurt
 
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Chree said:
I dont see where he says hes a niner fan, but it do say why he covers the Niners more than the Raiders, Unfortunately, the niners may have the worst ownership(Al Davis is very close to being worse), but the Raiders franchise is ran terribly, thats what the article is about, if you read it, you would realize this, btw, isnt this the oakland raiders offseason thread, where you post news, articles, etc? All i did was contribute to the thread until tony got all butthurt
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You know damn well if the article wasn't something negative about the Raiders you wouldn't have posted it.

You need to worry about your own squad..
 
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Chree said:
Oakland Raiders can't get no pub

Faithful readers of the Cohn Zohn surely have noticed that in the past few weeks Lowell has written extensively about the Niners -- specifically he did lengthy interviews with Alex Smith, Mike Martz and Mike Nolan. These are interviews 49er fans crave.

Lowell did not do interviews with similarly important figures on the Raiders. Lowell didn't even try. The Raider Nation may think Lowell's lack of Raider interviews reflects a bias against the Raiders on Lowell's part. That's incorrect. Lowell writes way more on the Niners because the Niners -- like the Warriors -- go out of their way to make coaches and players available to the media, including Lowell. They made Nolan available to Lowell even though Nolan had hard feelings against Lowell because of things Lowell wrote.

The Niners understand the meaning and value of good public relations, and they want their people to be accountable. In other words, they go about their business in a professional manner.

Not the Raiders. This is the Raiders' business. But they have no one who can or will set up an interview for Lowell or other columnists.

Here's an example. I wanted to interview left tackle Kwame Harris in training camp and phoned one of the Raiders PR staff to ask Harris if he was agreeable. Let me take that back. I phoned someone I thought could help. I don't know if he's on the PR staff -- for so many people on the Raiders you never know exactly what they do or what their job title is. This person said he would talk to Harris for me. This person, by the way, is a very nice person, someone I like and he made a sincere effort to get Harris for me. But he couldn't do it. Not because he's inept. Because the Raiders are not used to setting up normal kinds of interviews and have almost no mechanism which helps them do it.

This person suggested I drive to Napa, anyway, and get Harris on my own. He said Harris is nice -- he is -- and surely would agree to an interview. So I drove to Napa and approached Harris after practice and sure enough he said yes. I admit I said I went to Stanford as a way of catching his interest. I felt like a dope doing it but I did it.

I would like to talk with Lane Kiffin for 20 minutes as I talked to Nolan for 20 minutes. But I don't know whom to ask. If I accost Kiffin on the practice field and ask for 20 minutes I'm sure he'll look at me like I'm nuts. I'm a pretty good interviewer and I could give Kiffin a chance to say interesting things about himself. I could let Kiffin come across as a person. But it won't happen because the Raiders don't understand the value of fans reading profiles of their people.

I'll end with this anectode told to me by a local public-relations professional. A few years ago, he attended the NFL Combine in Indianapolis where he bumped into Al Davis in an elevator. They made small talk. "What do you do?" Davis asked him. The PR professional told him what he does. "Oh, we don't even care about public relations," Davis shot back.

We've noticed, Al. And that attitude hasn't helped your team one bit.


http://cohn.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2255790&mode=

lmfao
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hahahahaha fuck the raiders
 
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