The Oakland Raiders could enter the sweepstakes for Plaxico Burress once the lockout is lifted.
Burress, who is coming off a two-year stint in a New York prison, would mesh well with the team and provide veteran leadership at the position that is currently lacking with the young group.
Pro Football Weekly wonders if the team will have enough to offer the former Pro Bowl receiver. If, however, the team can make it work he may be among their top targeted free agents.
Fitting anybody under the salary cap could prove difficult for the team after going on a re-signing spree prior to the start of the lockout. That same spree will make it exceptionally difficult to reach a new deal with Nnamdi Asomugha.
Burress has not played since shooting himself in the leg in the fall of 2008. The 33-year-old Norfolk, Va. native caught 505 passes for 7,845 yards and 55 touchdowns prior to his legal trouble.
To the person that posted under the name Hmmmm. Do you really think Burress would sign a contract for anything less than 3 million a year? Do you know Plax agent is Drew Rosenhaus, the master of squeezing every last nickle out of a team for his players he represents. To many question marks about Plax at this point being out of football as long as he has. If the Raiders target another WR it shouldn’t be one with so many question marks, the Raiders have enough of those. If the Raiders can get Plax for around the league minimum then no harm on foul. Raiders don’t have a boatload of money to spend on free agents. They have to resign TE Miller which won’t come cheap and sign at least two good offensive line or it won’t matter who they have lining up at WR. More than likely he is a high risk player with low reward. Even the experts say Plax should go to a team where he wouldn’t be depended on right away.
You guy must not watch raiders play, how are you fine with the wide outs we already have? These guys are to young & most wouldt.even make it as a second & 3rd option on another team, now as for the guy you bash I would rather have him over any WR we have except (Ford), Plax has been to the playoffs & played in the biggest game, no risk in bringing him in off the right price, if he does not like wat AL offer then he can kick rocks, but.i would take a long look at this guy.
I Understand you trying to stir up controversy and alot of comments for your atricle, but really this is a no brainer. The Raiders just got rid of the bonehead players they had leaching off of them why would they go back and pull the trigger (pun Intended) on a burress deal? Al has finally learned his lesson after 5 horrible decisions walker, russell, hall, sapp, moss. Al got back on track with the Seymour trade and besides there are plenty of positive artcles you could write about the Raiders and still get plenty of feed back. I think your better than that, so pick up your game and write something indepth, you can do it!
Well…I’ll have to join the crowd. Burress is a desperation pick-up. We’re not desperate with the WR corp we currently have. Focusing on the OL has priority.
I’m with these other two gentlemen. You figure the Raiders will carry 5, maybe 6 receivers on the roster. DHB (Al’s not giving up on him yet), J. Ford, L. Murphy and C. Schilens (they’ve stuck with him through the injuries, why would they cut him now he’s healthy?) take up four spots. Denarious Moore will probably take that 5th spot unless they waive him in hopes of putting him on the practice squad. That leaves Burress to fight it out with Nick Miller and J.L. Higgins for a potential 6th spot. Miller and Higgins both play on special teams, Burress does not. Plus, there are better FA receivers out there like S. Rice of the Vikings and B. Edwards of the Jets. It just doesn’t make sense to bring Burress in unless you want a body in training camp.
I have to agree with Mr Fitch on this one there are other free agents out there that can help more than Burress. I tip my hat to him but to much risk and not enough reward.
We’re talking about the same Burress that would miss meetings, be late to practise and take plays off with the Giants? Al Davis doesn’t have many rules when it comes to his players, but he dose have 3. Pay attention, show up on time and play like hell on Sunday.
Come on Chuck, the Raiders have to many other needs on offense, like getting a deal done with TE Miller and targeting a couple offensive linemen. Even though the Raiders receiving core is still a work in progress, they have a whole stable of young fast WR’s which they happen to like.
In other words they have no shortage of WR’s and will not be parting with one just to bring in some old WR that’s been locked up in prison who hasn’t played in over 2 years. If Burress could be had for the league minimum, impress the coaching staff for a roster spot great. But I seriously doubt neither can be achieved.
Also Davis said he is done with head cases. Anybody that has an illegal firearm fall out of his pants, hitting the floor and discharge a bullet into his leg just missing a security guard in a disco is a blooming idiot.