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[Diceq]

I heard this 2nd hand but I was told Russell has been fined over 100k for missing / being late to meetings...

Did anyone hear this?

[phxraida15]

I heard this 2nd hand but I was told Russell has been fined over 100k for missing / being late to meetings...

Did anyone hear this?


not suprised!:nono:

[RaiderJF]

I heard this 2nd hand but I was told Russell has been fined over 100k for missing / being late to meetings...

Did anyone hear this?

I haven't heard this. It sounds like a rumor that Chud may have started... If it were true I would have expected the Raider beat writers to have caught some wind of it and been all over it as this would be big news.

[Point&Shoot]

-BOOMER ESIASON: I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, but it’s come to my attention that he has been fined heavily already for being overweight and for being late to meetings. And, he’s already missed one meeting. I’m telling you right now, the other 52 guys on that roster are looking at Tom Cable. They’re looking at Al Davis, and they’re saying we deserve better than this. That’s why every time he goes on the field, what’s the quarterback’s job – to be the leader of the other men on the field with them; to inspire them to greater heights.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2009/10/04/nfl-live-this-one-is-not-jamarcus-russells-fault/#more-5774

[DonkeyKilla]

and there you have it... fire to go with all the smoke.

[RaiderJF]

Hey, I liked listening to Boomer (at times) when I was up in NY, but he is a talk show jock now that hardly knows what is going on in NY let alone what is going on 3000 miles away. I don't doubt that JRuss "missed one meeting" and has been fined for not meeting weight clauses in his contract. And we all heard that he hasn't been as hard-working as what the organization wants. But we have also heard more recently from Cable that JRuss is now working at his craft more like he should. So until I hear something a bit more credible, I am not jumping on to this horse yet. Too easy jump on this band wagon when things are going wrong.

[DonkeyKilla]

i guess i never got off that bandwagon in the first place. I just don't have respect for someone who is getting paid millions of dollars to be an athlete and can't even be in shape. I figure if he's lazy enough to be fat then he's probably lazy enough to not put in the other work too. Then the product on the field pretty much speaks for itself too... so i'm going to assume stories are true- JR hasn't given me reason to assume they are not.

[eleven]

How much did he get fined for showing up at the combine with moobs?

That was awesome.

[Postmaster]

Hey, I liked listening to Boomer (at times) when I was up in NY, but he is a talk show jock now that hardly knows what is going on in NY let alone what is going on 3000 miles away. I don't doubt that JRuss "missed one meeting" and has been fined for not meeting weight clauses in his contract. And we all heard that he hasn't been as hard-working as what the organization wants. But we have also heard more recently from Cable that JRuss is now working at his craft more like he should. So until I hear something a bit more credible, I am not jumping on to this horse yet. Too easy jump on this band wagon when things are going wrong.

Spin, spin, spin baby.

[DarthRaidor]

It's like what Jarrod Cooper said about Jamarcus in his radio interview. He said when JRuss came into the NFL he acted just like a guy who had just hit the lottery. What's the 1st thing a guy who hits the lottery does? He quits his job. That's what Jamarcus did. He got all that money and pretty much said fuck it. Win or lose, I'm paid regardless so why not stay fat and lazy. Don'y get me wrong I don't feel like he is solely to blame for all the Raiders problems because he isn't, but he is not a leader and thats what this team needs more than anything else in the world.

[eleven]

Why so much guaranteed money for rookies? It's insanity.

I swear if I was an owner I don't think I would want anything to do with the top half of the first round anymore. I don't care how much the fans would piss and moan. What do they know anyway? :p

[Raider Outlaw]

It's fake. There are accounts of how Gruden couldn't fine players. So you think Cable has that authority all of a sudden? it just isn't part of the culture in Oakland. even so, if he were doing shit like that, even Al would turn on him because QB is the one position that can't be late to work.




I heard this 2nd hand but I was told Russell has been fined over 100k for missing / being late to meetings...

Did anyone hear this?

[Raider Outlaw]

he didn't say that, Ralph the Boob's annoying ass did. Coop said the same shit that all of you constantly say, that he doesn't show enough emotion, etc, and thus isn't a leader. If you buy into that being the definition of a leader, i don't. I had that discussion with rupert a couple of weeks ago, and I don't want to get on that subject again.

I'm not surprise that definition of a leader came from one of the most outwardly emotional former players that we've had with Oakland in years. However, Warren Sapp when asked about Russell since leaving the organization has backed him, so don't pick and choose who you'd like to listen to, and he was around Russell a lot longer than Cooper was. he's been put in a damn near impossible situation so far in his career to succeed.


It's like what Jarrod Cooper said about Jamarcus in his radio interview. He said when JRuss came into the NFL he acted just like a guy who had just hit the lottery. What's the 1st thing a guy who hits the lottery does? He quits his job. That's what Jamarcus did. He got all that money and pretty much said fuck it. Win or lose, I'm paid regardless so why not stay fat and lazy. Don'y get me wrong I don't feel like he is solely to blame for all the Raiders problems because he isn't, but he is not a leader and thats what this team needs more than anything else in the world.

[Diceq]

From PFt....

Russell situation is worse than described
Posted by Mike Florio on October 6, 2009 12:51 PM ET
Boomer Esiason of CBS recently lifted the lid on the problems with Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell. Esiason said on Sunday's The NFL Today that Russell has been "fined heavily" for showing up late for multiple meetings, being overweight, and missing one meeting.

A league source tells us that it's even worse.

Per the source, Russell has missed multiple meetings, and that he has missed multiple other activities. His behavior has been described to us as a "pattern not an aberration."

It's a horrible development regarding Russell's, well, development. And it's surely not what coach Tom Cable had in mind when he said this in March: "If he can accept the responsibility of being an NFL quarterback, I think that's working more, working harder, working longer than everybody else, accepting the responsibility that his teammates look to him as the face of the organization, that he has to go above and beyond almost on a daily basis, I think that comes with that position, whether that's right or wrong, that's what it is. . . . If he can accept that and become that, he'll be fine. . . . I think thus far in the offseason he's been around more than ever. He was never around like this on his own, just watching tape, studying, so that's a step in the right direction. I think he has to embrace that, though, for him to be what he should be."

Clearly, Russell hasn't embraced the realities of his job. And so the question will be whether the Raiders are going to stay the course with Russell, or whether they're going to fix this mess before it gets even worse.