Reggie McKenzie and the Raiders continue to show support for Aldon despite a video purporting to be Smith that surfaced recently and Smith – according to TMZ – checking himself in rehab earlier this week.

McKenzie said “We’re going to support Aldon from the standpoint of the person. Whether he comes back to us or not, it has no bearing. We told him from Day one, we care more about you than the player. So whatever he does to ensure his health, we’re going to stand behind him.”

Following a series of successful draft classes and in charge of a team that many think are poised to return to the post season this year,  GM Reggie McKenzie has been given a four extension by the Raiders.

Reggie will now be the GM of the Raiders until 2021.

Reddit user Mattyuh has shared with the world Oakland Raiders documents from 2010. This includes draft evaluation documents and pages from the 2010 playbook.

See the USA Today: For the Win article for their piece on this leak.

See here for the Draft  documents.

See here for the Playbook documents.

Mario has announced that he has been cleared to return to football after a neck injury sidelined his rookie season in week fifteen last year.

Derek Carr breaks into the top 100 for the 2015 season at number 100. I would have thought he’d be higher but there you go.

Watch the video here.

Watch Gruden work with Connor Cook including a special appearance by new Raider Bruce Irvin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzffL_HfG-E

Significant Numbers

Points scored rising by 106 points for a 41% improvement in production.

Points allowed dropping by 53 points for an 11% improvement.

Total yards rising by 821 for a 18% improvement over last year.

Passing Touchdowns scored up by 12 for a 54% improvement over 2014.

Passing Touchdowns allowed reduced by 4 for a 14% improvement.

Rushing Touchdowns scored is up by three for a 75% improvement (still a sad number given it’s below ten).

Rushing Touchdowns allowed  is down by five for a 29% improvement.

Fox Sports is reporting that Clive Walford will miss spring practises following an ATV accident. It is uncertain when the accident took place but Walford is now weeks removed from the surgery resulting from it.

This likely ends the rumours that the Raiders were interested in trading Mychal Rivera.

With Mark Davis pledging $500 million toward a new stadium in Las Vegas if the rest of the funding is ultimately approved by the Nevada State Legislature, it looks like the Raiders are committing to LV as their future home (pending league approval).

Vegas seems like the only bet the Raiders have, with L.A. being blocked off by the league and Oakland seemingly uninterested in keeping Silver and Black.

Personally, I just want the team to have a settled stadium situation and a team that is competing for the playoffs and the Superbowl every year. The team is coming around, this news about LV seems to say the stadium situation likely will resolve soon too.

It comes as no surprise that the Raiders choose not to pick up the 5th year option on D.J.Hayden’s rookie contract. Hayden has failed to live up to the first round pick that the Raiders used on him.