For those that missed the mcKenzie Press Conference

[HurrikaneSensei]

Thanks for the breakdown. Didn't get to see it.

Did he come across any better, (vocally), than his initial conference when he was named GM?

Really? That bothers you? The Raiders have been bottom feeders in the NFL for a decade and you're (I assume) still a fan. But you're concerned about Reggies vocabulary skills. Wow...just Wow.

He was too old to be "picked on?" If he's not too old to do the job, he's not too old to "be poked fun of" no matter his age. If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. I'm not even one really picking on him, but I will defend the ideal that "no one is above reproach" I don't care who are....or were. I love Al Davis, he's one of my heros, but he was a human being and he wasn't perfect. I'm positive his skin was thick enough to handle the "poking fun" without getting all butt-hurt.

Preach!!!

[cheapshotartist]

Thanx Much for the recap!!!

Character, best player available. Not tradeing away future high picks. An actual up to date modern franchise. Imagine that. It's like someone opened the windows and a breadth of fresh air entered the building......

I hear you Son, it's like being in football heaven.

Not this sh1t again.

This guy sounds pretty retarded as well

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!

Really? That bothers you? The Raiders have been bottom feeders in the NFL for a decade and you're (I assume) still a fan. But you're concerned about Reggies vocabulary skills. Wow...just Wow.

That's what I'm saying HS.

[cheapshotartist]

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Here's the press conference.

Pretty good presser. Reggie really seems more comfortable with the media. I like the fact that he's not a flashy bullsh!tter. He's very deliberate and gives honest answers.

Thanks, much appreciated.

[Moriarty]

Why does it matter. The man either knows football and can lead this franchise or he doesn't

If appearances don't matter at all for the head of a football organization, why do we keep harping on an overhead projector? It works fine for displaying small documents to an audience. It's because it reflected on our organization in a bad way and made us seem outdated and behind the times.

All things being equal you'd like the person speaking for any organization to be confident and well-spoken in public. Those are typically characteristics of a strong leader. Is it the end of the world? Of course not. But I don't see why it's a sin to bring it up unless we're just being really defensive.

[HurrikaneSensei]

If appearances don't matter at all for the head of a football organization, why do we keep harping on an overhead projector? It works fine for displaying small documents to an audience. It's because it reflected on our organization in a bad way and made us seem outdated and behind the times.

All things being equal you'd like the person speaking for any organization to be confident and well-spoken in public. Those are typically characteristics of a strong leader. Is it the end of the world? Of course not. But I don't see why it's a sin to bring it up unless we're just being really defensive.

O.K fuk it. Let's take up a colletion for a billboard that says "Please Mark, hire a GM that can talk the way we want him to. It doesn't matter if he's qualified or not." So I guess you don't care what he says, just how he says it. You're OK with someone who may be underqualified and feeding you a bunch of BS as long as he pronuctiates the BS correctly. Again I say...WOW.

While we're on "appearances", why don't we start a petiton for Mark Davis' hair. I mean who's gonna take us serious with an owner with a hair cut like that. Those aren't typical characteristics of a strong leader. You know for a fan base that has been so low with so little for so long...nit-picking should be the furthest from our minds.

[Moriarty]

So I guess you don't care what he says, just how he says it. You're OK with someone who may be underqualified and feeding you a bunch of BS as long as he pronuctiates the BS correctly.

Yes, that's exactly right. I want someone under-qualified that speaks well. I also hate Jacoby Ford on a personal level.

[kinz]

If appearances don't matter at all for the head of a football organization, why do we keep harping on an overhead projector? It works fine for displaying small documents to an audience. It's because it reflected on our organization in a bad way and made us seem outdated and behind the times.

All things being equal you'd like the person speaking for any organization to be confident and well-spoken in public. Those are typically characteristics of a strong leader. Is it the end of the world? Of course not. But I don't see why it's a sin to bring it up unless we're just being really defensive.

For me it wasn't the overhead, it was getting the name of the new head coach wrong, and the appalling public display of bile against another that were, well there is no other word for it, embarrassing. Al should have hired someone like Reggie McKenzie in 2002, or just kept Gruden and/or Allen. Al still had a lot to contribute, but he just was not capable of running the show. He beat himself in ways others never could.

[LINQ]

Does this mean that Al's overhead projector is on the way out?

It's in a time capsule.

[LINQ]

LOL @ the upgrading the computers comment. The staff probably only had one computer and had to take turns using it.

It probably has a sign out card like a library book.

[Blackthorne]

I'm curious now Reggie has said they will still "go through the motions" of the draft and place who WOULD have been picked in 1st, 2nd , 3rd rounds.
This I guess is to have the familiarity with the draft board process and his (staff as well) skills at picking at those positions.

Anyone have a guess to perhaps the 17th pick ?

[LINQ]

While we're on "appearances", why don't we start a petiton for Mark Davis' hair. I mean who's gonna take us serious with an owner with a hair cut like that.

I'm on board with that. His haircut is outrageous. I keep thinking of Jim Carrey from Dumb & Dumber.

[LINQ]

I'm curious now Reggie has said they will still "go through the motions" of the draft and place who WOULD have been picked in 1st, 2nd , 3rd rounds.
This I guess is to have the familiarity with the draft board process and his (staff as well) skills at picking at those positions.

Anyone have a guess to perhaps the 17th pick ?

My guess is they do that in the event of a trade possibility.

Say someone wants to trade down and/or give us a pick for one of our players...it would be pretty bad if we had this sudden great opportunity and absolutely no idea who we want to draft.

[Imasmashu]

I was there to take notes and here are the main points he made during the presser:

* He also confessed that other team executives have tried to make deals with him that were totally lopsided in favor of those other teams because he's a rookie GM. Could be viewed as another smack on Hue Jackson for allowing his being a rookie head coach to trading away too much for a player. Then again, McKenzie could just be giving a glimpse of what happens in the NFL for a any rookie GM.

This is just a raw human perspective that cannot be matched from a beat writer's news article. Thanks for this Dee.

I love stuff like this because it shows us openness and gives insight from a very high NFL position, specifically for the fans. Any sane person expects that others will try and pull this "rookie GM" chain, and take advantage...but for McK to give us this shows good character IMHO. You would figure that after his accomplishments at GB and as a player in the NFL, other team executives would give him more respect...haha...yeah right.

I would love to know what some of those lopsided deals were...

[Dudeness]

Enough with this trade our future with these 2 picks!? it just two picks. and theyre mid to late 1st rd picks (given raiders have a good season next season).
Many of these 1st rounders end up being bust or underachievers. It not like we traded two top 5 picks. Anyways whats done is done. We have Carson I think surely we might have overpaid a bit, but remember the front office was kind of desperate to get a big name QB to salvage our last season. The death of Al, the injury to Dmac, the Raider Nation getting impatient with losing... and the start of the season where as we were doing soo well, it had the league looking!, the Palmer trade was well worth it IMO

[Daggerman]

This talk about RM not being articulate enough is crazy. Some of the smartest people I know take forever to string words together to form coherent sentences, but their intelligence is evident in the very thoughts and actions they have and perform. Functional intelligence is the key here; managing a football organization isn't a speech contest.