Junk Food For The Soul

I was on the Raiders side in that Porter should shut up and play, but he’s been quiet the first four games and yet it’s going to be at least another four before he plays.

I don’t get it. What has he done now? Randy Moss is the one I keep hearing asking for a trade. Running his mouth. I haven’t heard anything from Porter. So what gives with a four-game suspension on top of already being deactivated for the first four games? The quote from Art Shell: “He’s working. It’s not that he’s not working. I’ve never said he hasn’t worked. He’s doing what he’s asked to do and you can’t ask for anything more than that.”

So that’s why you suspended him?

Whatever he’s done, perception is starting to swing in his favor. Many people are starting to look at how bad the Raiders are and how they have managed to underachieve with what little talent they have. They are looking at the fact that Al Davis is long past his prime in talent evaluation. Art Shell hasn’t been a coach in a long, long time before Davis found him and brought him back to Raider Nation. And their offensive coordinator, as Tony Kornheiser loves to say, has been running a bed-and-breakfast for the last eight years.

All of that is starting to make Porter look less like the idiot in this situation and more like another Marcus Allen. Never thought I’d say that.