Raiders News: Kirk Cousins and more.

The Raiders’ Kirk Cousins-Fernando Mendoza plan looks smart; that’s what worries me

The Las Vegas Raiders are betting Kirk Cousins buys Fernando Mendoza time. The real question isn’t whether the plan is patient—it’s whether patience is the right philosophy at all. Raiders general manager John Spytek deserves credit for constructing a coherent offseason vision. But coherence and wisdom are not synonymous, and the Cousins-Mendoza framework, however tidy

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Raiders News: Tyler Linderbaum and more.

The Raiders paid a center $81 million and they’d do it again

Forget the quarterback. Forget the flashy wide receiver. The Las Vegas Raiders handed a center $81 million this offseason, and general manager John Spytek wants you to know exactly what he thinks about your raised eyebrow. Nothing. He thinks nothing of it. Spytek has never hidden his love for big men in the trenches, and

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