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When you have an inexperienced QB making his first start, the accepted strategy is "don't have him pass too much."

Is Hillis a member of the conspiracy? Did he get injured and catch strep throat on purpose?

When was the last time a back had as many as 33 carries and failed to gain 100 yards? It would have been pretty rare pre-1980.

Not so. The Titan fans I know thought Johnson should have been let go because he has already had the best year he will have.

Long-time bay area columnist, Glenn ****ey, just wrote a piece (http://www.sfexaminer.com/sports/nfl/2011/10/raiders-have-always-been-oakland-s-team) titled "Raiders Have Always Been Oakland's Team." ****ey was a beat writer for the Raiders in the late sixties. He loved the players on those...

During the 1970's, white running backs disappeared from the SEC, SWC, and Big Eight. The RB position blackened in college (which is the NFL farm system) a year or so before it did in pro football.

I saw Lance Alworth play on TV many times during the 1960's. I see no resemblance on the part of Jordy Nelson to Lance Alworth. If Nelson had Alworth's hands (remember the drops in the Super Bowl?), leaping ability, and ability to tap dance in bounds after a reception, you could compare them...

Last year the NFL Network had a program titled "The NFL's Man In The Hat: Tom Landry." You can find it on youtube. I don't know how much like it this upcoming program will be, but the earlier one is very good. Tom Landry's reputation has gone up in recent years. When he died, I saw a piece by...

The NFL Network is now running a series titled, "A Football Life." Last week the subject was Walter Payton. This week it's NFL Films founder Ed Sabol. Next week, Mike Ditka will be profiled, then Tom Landry and finally Al Davis. The Ed Sabol episode was interesting. For those who don't know...

I just did a quick look at the eight 1973 playoff teams and two had white RBs who led their teams in rushing (Csonka and Hubbard) and two others started a white RB (Walt Garrison and Jim Bertelsen) and two who played in a reserve role (Jim Kiick and Ed Marinaro). During the 1970s if a white...

Jackson's writing style reminds me of Pat Toomay, the 70s DE. At one point, Toomay played for 4 teams in four years. The fourth was Al Davis' Raiders, for whom he finished out his career. Nowadays, Toomay would have been cut and waived out of the league for writing things the coaches and GMs...

Well, have Holmgren and Goodell said anything in public to indicate the conspiracy?

As usual, Bigunreal has it backwards with The Hillis Conspiracy. A conspiracy is something you have to hide from view. If Holmgren wanted to reduce Hillis' role, he could easily do so. Hillis' poor start this season made it look like the logical move. As it now stands, all the Browns have to do...

If you tried to explain this to Nelson he wouldn't know what you were talking about.

A good many self-described "conservatives" will say: "The problem isn't race. It's culture."

Ditka was criticized at the time for having Refrigerator Perry run the ball in from the 1-yard line late in the game instead of letting Walter Payton have the carry. This supposedly kept Payton, an all-time great, from scoring a Super Bowl TD. In fact, earlier in the game, Payton had several...

Bigunreal and I are again in agreement. Hillis has to produce. This is what makes a player popular.

There is a thread on Wes Welker at the Pro Football Researcher's Association Forum. The topic is whether Welder is one of the top WRs in the league. Two posters said they didn't think Welker is a WR. Welker is a "slot receiver" not a "classic WR," says one poster. The other says he is just a...

It probably was about Al Davis. He was on the San Diego Charger coaching staff in 1961-62 and spent a lot of time convincing Lance Alworth to sign with the AFL. When Alworth was enshrined in the HOF, he asked Al Davis to be his presenter. Lance Alworth and Al Davis were always good friends.

Good to see Eli playing well. It should be said that playing QB for the New York Giants has always been a job requiring a man who can take a lot of heat. Charlie Conerly was often booed out of the stadium in the 1950's.

You are right. Hillis HAS to produce.

I don't think a trade would help Hillis anyway.

I saw the Raiders play on TV when Al Davis was the coach on the sidelines during 1963-65. Although he liked to be thought of as a rebel or different, Davis always had about the same black-white ratio on the Raiders as everybody else, then and now. I've mentioned this before, but Davis used to...

What is coincidental about Holmgren wanting a different running back? Isn't he doing what we expected him to do?

A black African street criminal (who had done several burglaries) doesn't have to be "invited" to break into an apartment and rape and murder a woman he finds there. Do you think the black thug who murdered local ABC reporter Anne Pressly in her Little Rock apartment in 2008 was "invited?" Why...