Tag: JaMarcus Russell

My hatred for JaMarcus Russell knows no bounds


The Oakland Raiders held a mandatory final team meeting Monday and 7th string quarterback JaMarcus Russell, the highest paid and coincidentally, worst player on the team, was excused by coach Tom Cable for “personal reasons”.

Whatever the personal reasons were, it didn’t stop Russell from living it up in Las Vegas. The San Fransisco Chronicle is reporting that Russell was checked into The Palms and living it up Vegas style only a day after the mandatory team meeting.

If there is anyone in the world that does not deserve a Las Vegas vacation, it’s JaMarcus Russell.

by Rick  /  January 6, 2010  /  Posted in: Football
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Raiders sign J.P. Losman, will start Charlie Frye at quarterback

enlyten_losmanJust how awful is JaMarcus Russell?  The Oakland Raiders have announced that Charlie Frye will start Sunday against the Denver Broncos.  They have also signed former Buffalo Bills and Las Vegas Locomotives quarterback J.P. Losman.

Charlie Frye began the 2007 NFL season by starting for the Clevland Browns, only to be benched in the first quarter and then traded the following day to the Seattle Seahawks for a bag of packing peanuts and a 20% off coupon for Bed, Bath, and Beyond.  The joke was on the Browns though because the coupon was expired.

Watching JaMarcus Russell fill in for Bruce Gradkowski against the Washington Redskins this past Sunday was a truly painful thing to watch. It looked to me that he had no clue what the plays were supposed to be. He looked like me trying to play Madden football on the Xbox 360 trying to figure out which buttons to mash.

Has there every been a team in professional football that’s had more bad quarterbacks play for them?  For every Jim Plunkett or Rich Gannon, they’ve had ten Todd Marinovichs.

1 Comment by Rick  /  December 16, 2009  /  Posted in: Football
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Lima beans, fat-free mayonnaise, the music of Jimmy Buffet, and JaMarcus Russell

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What do the four subjects in the title all have in common? They are all things I hate.

Russell is the new Marc Wilson – San Francisco Chronicle

by Rick  /  December 14, 2009  /  Posted in: Football
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Raiders finally invite JaMarcus Russell to take a seat

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The Oakland Raiders have announced that they are benching former number one draft pick quarterback JaMarcus Russell and will be starting journeyman quarterback Bruce Gradkowski for the foreseeable future.

It’s about time.

Russell has been an awful NFL quarterback. If the Raiders didn’t use an overall number one draft pick on him and paid him over $30 million in guaranteed money, I have to believe they would have benched him a lot sooner. Not that benching him is even the correct move. They need to release him. He has no business being in the NFL. Though he is a talented athlete, I don’t think he really wants to play football. I don’t think his heart is in it. Someone with his raw talent shouldn’t be as bad as he is. His passer rating this season is only 47.7. He’s thrown nine interceptions and fumbled the ball five times.

And to think the Raiders cut Jeff Garcia before the season started, supposedly to give Russell a shot of confidence going into the season. Also, one of the reason’s Raiders owner Al Davis gave for firing former head coach Lane Kiffin was that Kiffin never believed in JaMarcus Russell and was against drafting him.

Imagine that.

3 Comments by Rick  /  November 19, 2009  /  Posted in: Football
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