that every year Lendale shows up and everyone bitches and moans about his weight. Then when the games start and he’s getting his usual numbers nobody cares.

I view him as a Bettis type player. The weight doesn’t effect him much (he still had some long runs last year) and if anything it helps him take some hits without getting hurt. I have no problem with his weight as long as he keeps it near where it’s been the past few years.

As far as getting the other team fired up, that’s fine. I like a little bit of cockiness as long as the player works within his teammates. For a running back this means always giving credit to your o-line and Lendale does that all the time.

This is the first time I remember him showing up in the police blotter, but I have a horrible memory so I’m probably wrong. It doesn’t matter though because I think he’s a very good RB and Tennessee would have a real hard time trying to replace him, so they’ll overlook this report with an apology from Lendale and hope it doesn’t happen again.

Maualuga looks like a bell ringer to me; that’s what I want to see in the middle.

Because he plays on such a crappy ass excuse for a football team. Also, if JaMarcus can figure out how to throw to the players on his own team, (which I doubt), watch for Aztec Chaz Schilens to have a breakout year.

But he will be a FA next year and it does not look like the Raiders have made any attempt to give him an extension. He would look great in blue and gold!

had a long chapter about the combine and Al Davis played a big part of it. Apparently Al is the only one with a reserved seat at the combine, and it’s in the very first row at the end of the 40 yard dashes. This is mostly due to Al’s infatuation with speed.

Ernie said that part of the reason the other GMs and scouts gave Al that seat was out of respect for the man and the other part of the reason is because they knew it usually made Al fall in love with the fastest player on the field who may not necessarily be the best.

Really good book by the way…