"They Don't Know Its Us, Not Like Were The Raiders" Official 2016 Oakland Raiders Off-Season Thread

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Tyler Lockett. Have any of you seen him play? I was reading a sleepers article on insider:


Tyler Lockett, WR, Kansas State Wildcats
A case can be made that Lockett was the best big-play wide receiver in college football last season. He had more receptions of 10 or more yards against Power 5 teams than anyone in the nation, including Amari Cooper and Kevin White. Lockett also led the nation in red zone receptions (19) and receiving yards (171) last year, was tops in long scrimmage plays against Power 5 teams and ranked tied for third in receptions of 20 or more yards against Power 5 teams.

Add in his best in college football ranking in punt return average and it shows Lockett could give any young wideout a run for the money in terms of posting big plays. He could be had on Day 2 after most of the big-name receiver prospects are off the board, and put up similar or better production.
 

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http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/...council-unanimously-approves-plan-nfl-stadium


Carson City Council passes $1.7 billion stadium plan by 3-0 vote Associated Press
CARSON, Calif. -- The ball now belongs to the
Raiders, the Chargers, the Rams -- and the NFL.

A second City Council has approved a second proposed pro football stadium in the Los Angeles area, putting local issues to rest in the NFL's return to the region and leaving the next move in the hands of the teams that would seek to relocate and the league that must give its final approval.

The latest significant step was Tuesday night's 3-0 vote from the Carson City Council, which cleared the path for a $1.7 billion stadium that could become the shared home to the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders.

It was intended to lure the NFL back to the Los Angeles area after two-decades without a team in the nation's second-largest media market.

Under current rules, the next opportunity for a team to file to relocate, either to the Carson stadium or the nearby proposed stadium in Inglewood, would be in January 2016. Any decision to move would have to clear a tangle of league hurdles, including winning the support of at least 24 of the 32 teams.

Mayor Albert Robles likened the absence of the NFL in greater Los Angeles to the state's deep drought.

"There are two things that are needed here in Southern California," Robles said after the vote.

"One of them is rain ... the other is football. And today, hopefully, we took care of that, because football is coming to Carson."

The vote came with a loud cheer from a crowd dotted with Raiders jerseys and Chargers banners, and faced virtually no opposition from the room.

Mike Haynes, who played for the then-L.A. Raiders in their 1984 Super Bowl title year and also grew up in the area, spoke strongly in favor of the stadium.

"It might not be too long 'til sometime another local kid will have an opportunity to play in a Super Bowl right down the street from here," Haynes said.

Council members could have opted to put the issue before Carson voters but instead chose to approve it outright themselves, as state law allows.

In the Inglewood project, St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke is part of a group planning to build an 80,000-seat stadium. Its City Council already gave it the same green light given by Carson Tuesday night.

The sudden rush to Los Angeles is tempered by a 20-year history of disappointment for fans. A string of stadium proposals have come and gone since the Rams and the Raiders fled Southern California after the 1994 season. Last month, the Anschutz Entertainment Group spiked plans for a field in downtown Los Angeles, although Mayor Eric Garcetti has suggested that it could be revived.

The Kroenke blueprint envisions a $1.86 billion stadium rising on the site of a former horse track, as part of a nearly 300-acre development of homes, parks and office space.
The 168-acre Carson site, edged by a freeway, is a former landfill.

Under current rules, the next opportunity for a team to file to relocate would be in January 2016. Any decision to move would have to clear a tangle of league hurdles, including winning the support of at least 24 of the 32 teams.

The Chargers' talks with San Diego City Hall to replace the nearly 50-year-old Qualcomm Stadium have grown increasingly strained. The Raiders' even older Oakland Coliseum has had sewage and electrical problems and is now the only stadium in the U.S. used as the home for both an NFL and Major League Baseball team, the Oakland Athletics.
 
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