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Transcript: Raiders/Shell press conference




The following is a transcript of the Oakland Raiders press conference announcing Art Shell as their 15th head coach:

Al Davis: Let me start by saying February 2006, the 15th head coach of the Oakland Raiders ... Arthur Shell. The great Arthur Shell, who came to the Raiders in the year 1968 from Maryland Eastern-Shore college as a little known offensive lineman. But did he change that quickly and over a period of years he played in three Super Bowls, he won as an assistant coach in the Super Bowl. He's been a head coach, has a great record, he has been an All-Pro, he has been in playoff games, championship games, warm weather, cold weather, traveled from the East Coast to the West Coast and the West Coast to the East Coast to play great games. And as you all know, he had a stint as a Raider head coach that began in the late 1980s.


I want to make a point or two about him. Tradition, history, excellence, leadership is wrapped up all in one when you mention the name Art Shell. There is no question about that.


And as Al Davis and the rest of the Raider organization — Amy Trask, Mike Lombardi — strove to find the new head coach for the Raiders, there were certain qualities that we feel had to be met. One of the biggest problems I have had in recent years is the fact, and even Art explained it to me, when Art left the Raiders as the head coach he went to Kansas City as the offensive line coach and in his first year there, they were 13-3 and he was the offensive line coach. But he said one thing to me: that before they would play the Raiders the Kansas City Chiefs, they would come into that room packed with players and say, 'We hate the Raiders. Not you Art, but we hate the Raiders.

And it was Raider week and it was a meaningful week.


You go to San Diego with Schottenheimer down there and talk to the players before they play the Raiders. 'It's Raider week and we hate the Raiders.'

Denver, I don't have to tell you the rivalry that goes there and how they get ready for the Raiders the week before the game. And I got the feeling and it wasn't only a feeling it was no joke anymore that the Raiders weren't ready to meet the challenge when they traveled to these other cities. Not only from a standpoint of total ability, but total desire and the will to win and to realize that what we're playing are people who dislike us intensely.. It's a fact and somehow or other we have to get this back in the Raiders organization that when we go to Kansas City, when we go to Denver, when we go to San Diego, it's not just a game for a new coach, or for new players but it's a game for the Raider organization.


We will come back. I say to the Raider players, to the Raider fans, to the Raider ex-players and even to you, the press, we'll get that back. It may take us a short while but we'll get that nastiness of the Raiders back. That's one of the reasons I'm going to depend on the great Art Shell to help us get that done.


I want to make a point to you before we get into Art. When John Madden was named head coach, he was named head coach and he coached for 10 years. And we should all get out that press release that they just gave you. I want to make a point I think it's pertinent and I think you'll take it well. John coached 10 years. John was just put into the Hall of Fame. We love John Madden, we're all happy as hell about it. But if you look at that record it was stability, continuity for years and years. After John came Tom Flores. It was stability and ability for year after year. It was nine years. Then I decided to make a change and to go in another direction and see what other people were doing.

And I hired a young man from Denver and after a few games, a year, I felt that it wasn't the direction really the Raiders could go based on their players, their history and their refusal to accept certain kinds of restraints that will be put upon them as players and so I turned to Art Shell. If you look at the five years of Art Shell as the head coach you see another long line of stability.


I have to laugh because during the Super Bowl week, Pittsburgh hadn't won a Super Bowl in 15 years, Bill Cowher hadn't won a Super Bowl in 15 years . Yet everyone was writing about the stability of the Steelers and they hadn't done anything in 15 years. And here we are the Raiders I was trying to get a distinct line of philosophy, of stability and Raider football. And I let it go. I said I let it go in about 1995. There were several reasons. We were moving. We were moving to Oakland No. 1. No. 2, we had just lost three of the greatest players that played over the ensuing years for the Raiders..


In 1990 Art got a tough break before the championship game and he lost Bo Jackson. In '92 we lost for whatever reason Marcus Allen. And in '93 Howie Long out of the clear blue based on the new TV networks, retires, and with still several years left to play. It was a blow to our organization.


Art felt part of the blow and left us. I have never forgiven myself and I have talked about it from time to time with you that I might have made a mistake.

Then we continued on, we found several good years with young Jon Gruden and here we are here today still with great records still with great tradition, great history but we are going to do more with it than we ever have in the past.


And the guy who I'm tapping and the Raiders are tapping to lead us back and we will be back is Art Shell, the 15th head coach of the Raiders.


Art Shell: It's great to be here. I'm really excited about this. It's coming home, to finish what I started. It's like going out to the wilderness, you travel around, you learn, you gather experience, new ideas, you evolve as a person and as a coach, and I think I've done that. I left here, I went to Kansas City, I learned some things, learned how people did things differently. I left there, went to Atlanta, helped Atlanta go to the Super Bowl in '98. Again, still learning I went along. Then I left football, not really left football, left coaching. I never left the game of football.


I've always watched the Raiders from afar. The old saying among the ex-players is that, `Once a Raider, always a Raider.' That's a true statement, and I watched from afar. I watched the team, had a couple of good years there, when they went to the Super Bowl. I was really excited about that. I felt good. And then, went on some down time, which was not good. So, when the job opened up, I wanted to try and be a part of it because I felt that my organization, our football team, needs me. And I felt I could help.

There's a lot of tradition here. A lot of great players came through here and a lot of great coaches. John Madden, I was so excited, he got in the Hall of Fame this year, I just can't tell you how well I feel about that. The great John Madden. Of course, Tom Flores should be going there too and we've got a lot of players that deserve to go in the Hall of Fame. Having said that, I just can't tell you how I feel, how much I a feel about being a part of the Raider organization again.


There are certain standards that are very high, the expectations are high. I understand that, the players have to understand that, the coaches have to understand that, every coach in the whole building has to understand that.. We 're all in this thing together. We can get this done, but it starts with me as far as the football part is concerned. I have to set the tone. I expect to set the tone. We have some great players here. We have some players that can flourish and become the Charlie Smiths, the Raymond Chesters, the Jack Tatums, the George Atkinsons, the Jim Ottos, Mr. Jim Otto, I have to make sure I say that, Mr. Raider. We've got players who can become those guys. There's history here. And the players have to understand what "Commitment to Excellence" means. Those are phrases that they hear, but I'm not sure they understand what those phrases mean. "Commitment to excellence," "Just Win Baby." People laugh when Al says that, but there's a meaning behind that. Or the phrase, "The Greatness of the Raiders is in its future.

That's a true statement.


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And if you're willing to commit yourself, and I'm sure these players want to win, they all want direction. Don't get me wrong, they all want direction, they all want to win, so I have to come in here, and I have to show them the way, coaches too. The Raider way. Everybody has a way of doing things. The Raiders have a way of doing things. We're about winning. And we will win. We will be tough. We will be power. And I want the ability, as always to strike from anywhere on the field. That's important to me. People say, how are you going to change? Are you going to change what you've done?

I grew up in this organization, my philosophy has not changed. I believe in the things we have done throughout the years. I believe that those things work. I look around, and I see a lot of teams doing what the Raiders have done in the past. You look at, I remember, watching the Rams when they were playing a few years ago, I watched their offense, I watched their running game, and I said, "You know what? That looked like the Raiders." So those things work. I know they work . I've been involved in it. I know how to win. I know how to lead. I expect that we will have the kind of success that this organization deserves. As I said, expectations are very high, and the standards are high, and we have to meet those standards. And we can't settle for anything less. And that's my job, to come in here and show the way.

Thank you.



Al Davis: This is Michael Lombardi on my right, Michael is very instrumental in pro personnel, was instrumental in the search for a coach, and I thought I'd make this point to you to give you a little backround. We interviewed several coaches, I'd say anywhere from four to eight coaches, interviewed.

Now I want to make a point to you and I hope you'll understand. An interview of a coach for two or three hours, is not like interviewing someone, with no disrespect, to being a book keeper at the Brooklyn library, or any library.


When you start interviewing people, an interview, to be a head coach, takes a long, long time. If you remember correctly, Jon Gruden, came back here three different times. Year one, he wanted to be the coordinator. Year two, he wanted to be the coordinator. Year three, I made him the head coach. But every year, I sent him home, because he didn't grasp the entirety of being a head coach, of doing all the things that are necessary to being a head coach. But every year he came back with different programs because he began to get a focus of what you had to do to be a head coach. Mike Shanahan will tell you, he came back to see me four times, with different projects, because he was green as grass when he was applying for the job as head coach. I'll tell you something else. Only one other person was offered the job as head coach of the Raiders this offseason, and Art was fully aware, fully aware that this offer was out there.


Now I want to make this point, it was during Super Bowl week, Art's agent had called twice, before Super Bowl week, to inquire would Art have a shot here as the head coach, could he get an interview with Al, what do we have to do to talk to Al. And the answer always came back, Al wasn't ready, and wasn 't sure what direction he was going, and had not made any commitment to anyone, and if he thought it was the right time, he would bring Art in for an interview.

No one was offered the job, and there were many people who wanted to the job, and there are many people who would take the job today, and there are many people who went home without the offer of a job, and intelligently seeing that they weren't going to get it, made the announcement that they weren't interested. Or made the announcement that, they were honest to a fault, they didn't say they weren't interested, they said they were going to stay where they are, because no job offer had been made to them. Finally, one of our ex-players called me and asked me to bring Art out. That he's the guy who can lead us. Bring him out and talk to him. So Art came out, Super Bowl week, to talk to me, and we spent a lot of time on it. We spent a lot of time on the things I'm talking about. About getting that Raiders swagger, that Raider toughness back, and all those things. But I told Art at that time, that while I wasn't ready to make a move, we had made an offer to someone.

Whether that person would accept the offer, or could accept the offer, was something else.


I had one or two more interviews. One, with the fellow from Pittsburgh who I had never met, who I knew about through obviously, coaches, he worked with Parcells, he worked with Dan Henning, and I told him that I was going to interview him after the season. And we talked about one other coach who I was going to interview. And as time went on, I began to see, at least in my mind, what I thought we needed here, was someone not only to bring the football, but the other elements that go with the football back, and it had to come from within. It had to be someone who believed in what we were doing, who loved this game. Who loved the toughness, and as all of you continually point out, I am getting older, and I do want some people that I know and I believe in, to promote the Raiders and give us that lift that we need.

I want to throw one other thing out to you. Maybe you think it's interesting and maybe it isn't. Over the last three years, the name Butch Davis, Butch Davis from the Miami Hurricanes, and the Dallas Cowboys, where he won Super Bowls. Where he won national championships with the Miami Hurricanes, were synonymous with great success, and everyone was after Butch Davis. When Steve Spurrier came out of college to go with the Washington Redskins, that offseason, all you could read about was Steve Spurrier and the Washington Redskins, and football's the same game as the college game, just a little different, a bigger player, the same game, the same field, everything is the same. There was a guy who coached here, a hell of a guy, a friend, a guy I liked, who was the epitome of a great coach, Steve Mariucci, was offered a five-year contract at Tampa Bay, before Jon took it, and was considered the hottest prospect in football. Unfortunately, he was let go this year.

Immediately, writers in our area, had him coming to the Raiders — in the middle of the season, I think. He was going to come to the Raiders. Capers, when he went into Texas, boy, oh boy, the found their man. That was the guy..

And he's out there now, as an assistant. Dave Wannstedt, took over the Miami Dolphins. Remember that name? How everyone was mouthing, who he is, he's a great guy. But I want to make a point to you. Then there's Mularkey last year, two years ago, turned down the Raiders. He never turned down the Raiders. We never asked him to to be the coach of the Raiders. He went to Buffalo, lasted a year and a half. Sherman, up at Green Bay, two years ago, given a five-year contract and fired a half a year later. Tice, we all know Tice, Michael.

Seifert. Remember George? George Seifert, when he left the 49ers, there was a name that was called several times behind the scenes, and I like George, he's a good friend. You gotta get Seifert, you gotta get Seifert. Here's a name, that wanted to come, and I like the guy because he coached here, Haslett. Jim Haslett. He had to take the defensive coordinators job at St.

Louis. Jim Fassel. You all know that name. Hell, Jim Fassel was in the Super Bowl three years ago. I can go write down the list. Ray Martz. Let me say one thing about Martz. Four years ago, I didn't think there was anyone, who had produced in professional football, what Martz produced with the St. Louis Rams throwing the football. There was no question about it. It was brilliant. But Martz, this year, had to take a coordinators job.

What I am saying to you, and I hope, I know some of you are not going to believe me on this, this is the most unstable, unstable, business going in America right now. There's 32 teams. Eight teams will win, make the playoffs. Then at the end, the one that loses the Super Bowl will be chastised like all hell. But eight teams will win, and of the other 22 teams, six will be given a bypass, you've got another year to make the playoffs, otherwise the coaches beware, they'll be gone, they'll be out in the street. What I'm trying to say to you is it's a tough business, it's tough to win, I picked Art, at this particular time because I felt in the long run, he's the guy. We were turned down by one man, I told you that. Art knew it. We admit it. You know how all these networks, CNN says the most trusted name in news, Fox says the most trusted name in sports? From now on, the Raiders, are the most trusted name in sports, and if there are any questions I'll ask what I can and Art will answer what he can and certainly Mike Lombardi will answer what he can.

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Q: Who was the coach who turned you down?


Al Davis: Bernard Petrino. It was a unique situation, at the end, his agent sent us an e-mail, and said that they were very interested, and the reason that Petrino had a big problem in the middle of all the manifestations were that they were recruiting, and it was very tough for a head coach in college, when you're recruiting players, to announce you may be leaving and it will be used against you by the teams that are recruiting against them, and in fact, he went the very other way and said he'd never leave. But I can show you, and I'm not here to win this battle, I can show you indications that he would leave, based on certain situations, and it just didn't happen. Does that answer your question?



Q: You mentioned an ex-player who called and urged you talk to Art. Who was it?


Al Davis: There were many, but this particular one was Michael Haynes.



Q: How many times have you guys visited over the years?


Al Davis: Art and I?



Q: Since he left in 94 . . .


Al Davis: I'd say, wow, I don't keep track of this, but let me reflect. I'd say two times a year. But, we're not longer in an age where, I laugh when you try to get so someone to answer something and they say, I can't get him, he's traveling. Everyone in the world has got a cell phone, e-mail all of those things. We're all close. It's different than it used to be when covered wagons would get you together. It takes seconds. And e-mails come over the thing relative to . . . he's been working for the league, I see him, I talk to him. I talk to Upshaw obviously quite a bit. I talk to a lot of them.

It's not long conversations.


Q: What else might be done to bring back Raiders tradition, bring back assistants with Raiders ties?

Al Davis: From my standpoint I can tell you one thing. That's up to Art. I don't like when you change a coach to change the whole organization. We can't do that. We're not that way here. We have four assistants left who are under contract. Their contracts will be honored. We have I think three assistants left under offense, those contracts will be honored. One of those things when you get a young guy who comes in here and talks about taking a job the first thing they think of is power. They want to let everyone go and bring in their own people. We have video people who have been with us 25 to 30 years. The guys who take the films and all of that. We don't let trainers go unless there's a reason. We're not going to let equipment people go. Now Art is going to pick the rest of the staff and he's going to do what he wants with the rest of the staff and he's already done some things. So is that what you're asking?


Q: Do you see getting back to more ex raiders on the staff


Art Shell: There are going to be people I feel very comfortable with, who will evolve and be a part of the Raider organization and do the things that I am going to request of them. To get our players to understand exactly what it's going to take for us to win. The staff right now is evolving. I have not put together a total staff. I have talked to Mr. Davis about the people that are in place and I plan on talking to them Monday morning. I have also decided that I just don't want to get too heavily involved in talking about the staff now. That will take care of itself. I just don't want to go there right now.

We got some good people. Remember, when you keep people on the staff and they're good people that's OK. I was a part of that. When Tom Flores left, Mr.

Davis said to me, 'Look I'm going to suggest to the new coach that comes in here that you be kept.' So I was a part of that and I understand that. I have no problem with that.


Q: What's missing from a football standpoint?


Art Shell: I have to study that. Again, I have to study the personnel, I have to study the film and see what's been going on. But I know there's certain things I'm gonna bring to the table, that's gonna be expected of me. And as I said before, my expectations are very high. And attitudes and things like that will have to be changed somewhat.. Toughness is a big part of what we want to be doing, has always been, and I expect to be a tough football team.

When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. Yeah, a swagger. You walk out there with a presence. And I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. And we're gonna play in Black Bottom — we used to call it Black Bottom back in the day, now they call it the Black Hole.

That's our home field. That's our home. You can't come in our backyard and win. We've gotta create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.


Q: Did you think it would take this long to get your second chance?


Art Shell: No, I didn't think it would take that long, because I thought I had done some good things when I was with the Raiders. But unfortunately that had happened. But look, I'm here, years later. I came to talk to Mr. Davis just before he hired Jon Gruden. And I was doing good, I was in Atlanta, I felt good about that. We talked, and he moved in the direction of Jon Gruden.

Which was fine, because I felt OK where I was. As long as, again, having a connection to the organization, and I just want the organization to do well.

So now I'm back. And again, I feel there's a job to be finished and I look forward to doing that.


Q: How do you restore swagger?


Art Shell: Words don't get it done. It's actions. It's how you work. It's how you practice. And it starts in the offseason. For the players it starts with offseason programs. That's when it gets started. As a matter of fact, I've already etched off my letter to the players, as to what the expectations are and when we get started, move toward a championship season.

But we're gonna get it done. It's the actions that the coaches have to do in the offseason to get our players prepared, make sure we come up with a plan. And again, it's not the system. Systems are good, but players win games. You gotta have football players to win. You can come up with any kind of system you want, and great players will make any system work. So you gotta develop players. You gotta develop your young players, you gotta make your old players better, and you've got to have an attitude about how you're going to win, and you're gonna go OUT and win. I really believe that. I believe in all those things. Toughness is gonna be a big part of this thing.

Everybody's gonna be held accountable. I'm accountable for what goes on.

Coaches are gonna be held accountable and players are gonna be held accountable. But it's gonna be a tough-love thing for me. We're gonna get this thing turned right. We're gonna create the type of attitude that we're all looking for in the Raider organization, that our ex-players have come to expect, that our fans have come to expect. We've got great fans. We've got great fans all over the world. I was in Cologne, Germany, in November, and here I am in Cologne, Germany, and there are a whole bunch of Raider fans over there. One of the international players brought a Raider pants. He had the uniform, he wanted me to sign it. So we have fans all over the world, and there are expectations out there that we have to uphold. And again, uphold for us. It starts here, in the organization.


Al Davis: I want to make one point. I said when I was here about a month ago, we've gotta run the football better, we've gotta run it with toughness. We can't be a reach football team. This guy knows what I'm talking about, about toughness running the football. It'll make our quarterback better, it'll make our pass protection better, and that's one of the things that I'm strong on. We've gotta run that football better, we've gotta run it tougher, and people have to understand that they're gonna get knocked.. Not what we call zone blocking. But in any event, that's something that comes from me, and I just bring it up to you. We have good players now. We have a lot of great players now. We really do. And we'll see if we can make them perform. We're in a tough division. I told you.. It's tough. And not only that, the schedule is tough. You look at that schedule. We've got Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh'll be out here. Cincinnati. It's a tough schedule.

So we've got a challenge to meet. Art made one statement. He always likes to run the ball, power. But he also strike where? Strike deep. So we'll see.


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Q: Have some catching up to do after being out of coaching, and how are you physically?


Art Shell: I feel great. I feel good. I think it's known, well some people know that I have diabetes. But that's under control. I do PSAs for diabetes, make sure people are aware of being a diabetic. Even though I haven't coached since the year 2000, I really haven't been away from football. I'm involved in the NFL Europe, where we're looking at personnel over there, evaluating players, developing players. I've also been involved over the officials. So any fines that come in, anything that happens on the field, I have to watch the tapes.. So invariable what I did was, I'd pull out tapes and watch teams. The teams that are doing well, I want to see what they're doing.


So I kept abreast of what was going on. Again, the game of football comes right down to blocking and tackling. Schemes? Everybody's talking about how this stuff is on the cutting edge, zone blitzes are in, those types of things.

But it's still football. Look at the team that won the championship game.

Look at the team that won the Super Bowl. Pittsburgh and Seattle played in the Super Bowl. What did they do? They run the football tough. They strike with play-action passes down the field. They play tough defense. And what's different from then, from back when we played and back when I coached, up until now? Those things are consistent: stop the run, run the football and strike deep. That's what I believe in.


Q: Did you notice any subtle changes in players, or about the role of a head coach?


Shell: No, I think I've always believed — of course, I learned that from here — that the head coach is the leader of the football team. That has not changed. And I think a head coach has to make sureâ ¦ You can't become a CEO. Even though you do a lot of CEO work, you can't just become a CEO. You have to have your hand in every part of the football team — special teams, defense and offense. You've got to be aware of what's going on and all aspects of it. And as I said, I've evolved, I've grown, and I know that those are things that have to be done.



Q: Are players different these days?


Art Shell: Players haven't changed. They all want the same thing. They want to win. But somebody has to go in there and give 'em direction.


Q: How do you deal with players who don't meet your expectations?


Art Shell: If they don't meet the expectation level, I've gotta find a way to make sure they meet those expectations. Our job as coaches is to try to find a way to develop our players. And that's what I'm about. I'm gonna figure out, "how can I get that guy to be a player?' Now one thing in past years, some people call players dumb and that type of thing. There's no such thing as a dumb player. We all learn different. You gotta figure out how that guy learns. And I'll bet you can get him to be the best football player he can be. So I'm not into what kind of style I am. I'm into being the guy that's gonna lead our football team and make 'em winners.



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Q: Given the team's well-documented problems with revenue stream, the losing record over the past few years and taking over your own ticket sales, is this your most important hire?


Al Davis: No. Certainly not. The difficult years ... again I say to you, did Pittsburgh have difficult years when in 15 years they didn't go to the Super Bowl? Three years ago we went to the Super Bowl. We didn't play as well as we should have, could have or did. But no, it's not the most important.. Now he is an important guy, no question. but the important thing is to see how we do.

The end result. But he's important, obviously.



Q: When Al Davis hired you in 1989, you both made history as the first African-American NFL coach in the modern era. Are you happy with the progress since then and are you conscious of the role you played in minority hiring?


Art Shell: I look back when Mr.. Davis hired me. He said, "Look, to a lot of people this is significant, but while this is going to be a significant hire, I am not hiring you because you are a minority, you are black, I am hiring you because you are a Raider. You are being hired because I think this is the best thing for this organization at this time. So while it was big for everybody else in this country, it wasn't big for us because minorities wasn't a problem. Tom Flores was the coach before and he is a Mexican-American. This is significant right there. But it wasn't a big part of what we were trying to do back then.

As far as the situation as it is now, it's gotten better but it needs to get better.There's a lot of work to be done. We have to get more minorities involved in it. But that will take care of itself


Q: What are your impressions of Kerry Collins and is he likely to be the team's quarterback?

Art Shell: I just got here. I am not involved in personnel right now. All I can say is Kerry Collins has been an outstanding quarterback. Matter of fact I spoke with Kerry just before I came down here. He is excited about moving forward next year. But look, he is an exciting quarterback. I think he has a chance to be great for us. But those issues will be addressed down the road.

Q; The Raiders have a potentially outstanding young lineman in Robert Gallery, what do you think of him and what do you think of working with some of their young linemen?


Art Shell: I'll tell you what, that is one of the things that excites me about this job because they do have some outstanding young talent on the line.

I met Robert Gallery when he came to visit the league office going into the draft. I remember saying to myself "Boy, what a big rascal this is.

I had no idea he would be going to the Raiders. There was talk about it. Then when he got drafted by the Raiders, I walked up to him and congratulated him and said you have a chance to be an outstanding football player. And I think he does. I think he has a chance to be an outstanding football player for us.

He has done well but we've got to make him better.We've got to make him a perennial pro bowl player and you have the young Jake Grove in there at the center position. He has done well. He is a good young player. And look, this offensive line I think can be the leader of this team. We just have to make sure we get them better and I think we can do that. they have a chance to be a great group


Q: How many chances have you had to watch a Raiders game on T.V. and whatyou re your reaction to what happened?

Art Shell: When I watched them it wasn't about getting the itch to coach again. When I watched them play last couple years it just bothered me the way we were playing. It bothered me some. Like all ex-players who played here, all the people who are Raider fans, they want to see the team do well. In the league office I get nudged a little about the Raiders when they lose. I catch a little flak. When they win I give them flak back. Look, it bothers all of us when the raiders lose. We just have to make sure we win on a consistent basis.
 
Here is a place that has a couple more videos including Madden talking about Art. One of them may be the full press conference although I am not sure...my apologies if it is the same one Plunk posted...

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