Asomugha Lands Monster New Deal

I though Lechler's deal was 4 years $12M. But it's actually $16M?! Go Raiders, I guess.

Nnamdi's deal is OFF THE CHARTS! Unbelievable.

Who is running the Raider organization? Not that this is a bad deal, but they sure have been throwing out huge money in the past couple of years with zero results.

I'm guessing Asomugha gets the guaranteed money but nothing else. I don't understand contracts that much, but the numbers they are throwing out seem to be a little inflated. Where are they getting all this money?

I don't get them. They are just doing it wrong.

Happy for Asomugha, though. He probably deserves it, but we'll see. I bet he's gone in 2 years.

its clear now; condons running the raiders.

$28.5M is a crazy amount of guaranteed money. I would imagine that is the combined salary for year's one and two. and if they keep him for year three, that year's salary ($17M) is also guaranteed. that's crazy.

Yeah - I hope that was facicious.

Huge amount of money for a great player. Also says he can't be franchised after the contract meaning that Nnamdi is a Raider for 2-3 years and then clear to rack up ANOTHER big money deal.

Condon is earning his money and name.

Ridiculous amount of money. Then again, this is the same team that paid stupid money for one Javon Walker.

Al Davis is nuts. He is a very good young corner, but he is not a game changer worthy of that kind of dough.

$4 million a year for a punter? $15 million a year for a Cornerback??

What'd Lechler do - dress up as Ray Guy and convince Al that it was still the mid-1970's?

Beyond a joke.

As a Raider fan, I would much rather have Al spend money on good players than the crap he splurged on last year. I think they can cut Walker and Curry, and Kelly (who is not that bad, but just didn't deserve that money).

Asomugha is the best corner in the league, and deserves to be paid so. I would rather pay him 28 mill guaranteed than pay Nate Clements 20 mill guaranteed or whatever he got. This is a great week for the Raiders, as many thought it would be a stretch to sign either guy. They get two all-pros back, and for multiple years. Maybe they aren;t as badly run as it seems. They are putting together a stable nucleus, and they really only need some receivers and better pass protection adn they can be a .500 team. But, this is the first step.

Essentially it comes to this: My dear Raiders are constantly bagged as a terrible, dysfunctional, "fishy" (thanks Randy) place to be. Therefore, it becomes necessary to pay just a few dollars more than other teams to draw or retain talent. As Daniel before me said, at least Al spent some on quality this year.

good for the raiders i see progress.

Spent money is right, Al just spent money, and spends, and spends. He caught onto the Steinbrenner Winning/Losing ways, when the Yankees would get to the World Series only to lose the Series, NOT win the Series. They both overspend and get nothing from it these days.
He can get all these past the prime players he wants, over pay one great athlete at one position but he'll still be beat by the teams with better coaches and better GMs. The ones who work as a team on the field and behind curtain.
It looks like there are a lot of great coaches, teams, GM out there these days, and it isn't like that at all. It's only that the Raiders these days are only a few steps up from the Lions, battling them in the Top 10 Draft ranks every year.

Have you guys ever heard of an uncapped year? Everyone criticizing the Raiders now will realize it was actually smart to get these guys locked up now (including CB Chris Johnson) instead of being a small-market team with an old stadium trying to match contracts that the Snyders of the NFl will be offering with no cap.