Michael Huff News

By 2008, that draft class was filled with so many busts of the Ryan Leaf variety, doomed for top-10 worst lists.

The Raiders face off against the Bolts. How is JaMarcus going to react towards his benching last week? Did his extra studying and preparation payoff? Will JaMarcus show improvement after his meeting with Tom Cable & Al Davis? Today is the day we will find out if in fact he will make more improvement and they will enter their bye week on a positive ...

Fourth-year safety Michael Huff started for the third time against the New York Jets on Sunday, but this one carried some added significance because it came on merit and not because of an injury to Hiram Eugene.

In the victory over the Eagles the Raiders mixed it up a lot on both offense and defense.

We all knew that Michael Vick coming to town would bring the animal rights activists out to Oakland Coliseum for Sunday's Raiders game.

What does it mean: Morrison gets his tackles, but the Raiders are still giving up too many big plays.

Yes, despite a 1-4 record and six-going-on-seven years of losing, there are still some very big egos in Oakland.

Another week, another top-flight matchup that probably won't materialize. Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha , considered the best man-to-man cornerback in the NFL , would seem a logical choice to cover Giants wide receiver Steve Smith in Sunday's game at the Meadowlands.

And the laughs just keep on coming. In case anyone was asleep the past five weeks, let me get you up to speed - the Raiders are a really, really bad football team.There is no skating around that fact.

CHAREAN WILLIAMS Michael Huff heard the rumors. How could he not? He has spent the past two years on the Oakland Raiders' bubble.'As long as I was on the Raiders' roster, I was going out there, working hard and trying to get better each and every day,' Huff said in a telephone interview, 'so if my number was called, I'd be prepared to go out there ...

OVERALL , RUSH , PASS RAIDERS DEFENSE - OVERALL , RUSH , PASS GIANTS OFFENSE - OVERALL , RUSH , PASS GIANTS DEFENSE - OVERALL , RUSH PASS STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES - A best-and-worst game: Giants have best defense and Raiders have worst offense in league.

Raiders coach Tom Cable spoke with reporters after a practice he described as "excellent" Wednesday, shedding some lights on who's hurt and who isn't. And no, Cable has no comment on the ongoing Randy Hanson story.

5 without explaining his decision to ask for his release. On Friday, he opened up with both barrels, saying he asked out because of a lack of commitment from some players and him being powerless to effect change as a backup.

TV/radio: CBS and KZNX-AM Records: Raiders 1-2, Texans 1-2 Series record: Texans lead 3-1. Last meeting: The Raiders beat Texans 27-16 at Oakland on Dec.

Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson Weekend mail call: Mauricio Cisneros from El Paso, Texas wants to know if Oakland safety Michael Huff can become a star.

Darren McFadden dropped the ball against the Denver Broncos, literally and figuratively.

What's not to boo about 137 total yards? Running backs Darren McFadden and Michael Bush got nowhere for the second straight week.

The last time JaMarcus Russell had a performance this poor, he sat out the next week with a knee injury and then put together the best stretch of his NFL career to end last season.

He was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for pulling a player's hair Sunday, then was not allowed to speak to reporters by a public-relations official when a local columnist declined to leave after asking about the penalty.

Javon Walker had to be talked into not retiring last summer, despite signing a six-year, $55-million free-agent contract to join the Raiders.