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May 15, 2007

Why hire another puppet?

Reports have the Raiders possibly replacing fired personnel executive Mike Lombardi with NFL Network draft expert Mike Mayock or a young personnel assistant.

I would still expect director of football operations Mark Jackson to take on a bigger role, considering he already was doing a lot of Lombardi's work.

Why hire someone when we all know Al Davis is the owner/general manager/director of player personnel and in charge of whatever else he deems fit?

Davis might want another voice in the fold to better assess talent, but isn't Lane Kiffin's talent evaluation one of the reasons he was hired?

I'd be surprised if someone was hired to replace Lombardi.

- Jason Jones

Posted by Ahmed Ortiz at 7:35 PM | Comments |