The Crypt Keeper stroke again last weekend during the NFL draft. Perhaps you might not have seen him, but if you were watching, you felt his impact. We know Michael Crabtree sure felt it. As he slide down into the seventh position, he waited as the Oakland Raiders were on the clock.  Everyone was sure they knew what was coming.  The Raiders have had a huge hole at wide receiver since the departure of Tim Brown and Jerry Rice, so it was a lock they would take Crabtree, right? It only makes sense; well ladies and gentlemen, it makes too much sense for the Oakland Raiders. The pick was turned in and yes it was a wide receiver, but his name was not Michael Crabtree, it was Darrius Heyward-Bey. Wait, who? Yeah, exactly.

But as an Oakland Raider fan you come to expect these kinds of things. Like logic, common sense, and anything remotely related to good decisions. Every year when Al Davis seems to finally have lost it, he one up’s himself the next year. Like spending 150 million dollars isn’t enough last year, and like cutting most of those players this year isn’t enough, and like convincing us Tom Cable is the right coach for the job isn’t enough, and finally like trying to tell us you’ll build through the draft but completely failing to take one solid proven player, well we’ve had enough.

It is no disrespect to Darrius, in fact I hope he proves me and everyone else wrong.  But taking a player that has had issues with dropped passes and poorly ran routes at the number 7 slot is completely outlandish.  Why not trade down with Philly, Minnesota, or Baltimore? All of them lie in the area where Darrius would still be on the board, and all three of those teams want a WR, in fact Philly and Minnesota both took one with their first picks.  So if Darius is the guy you want, why not trade down and get an extra pick out of it? Whatever, we’d just botch that pick too.

I just have no clue what the fans did to Al Davis to deserve this.  I rather be water boarded 183 times than having to be born a Raider fan again. The franchise is such a wreck that a winning season is probably a decade away.  More likely when Al Davis steps down and gives up control, aka when he dies.  The only problem is he sold his soul to the devil in the 70’s and won’t die until 2077.

So it’s going to be a long ride, and the best we can do is paint our faces black so no one will recognize us.  Just so we can keep a little bit of our dignity.