Al Davis Needs Help: NFL Draft Proves He's Lost It...Again

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Al Davis needs help. He needs help getting to Raiders’ games. He needs help walking. He probably needs help eating and relieving himself on a daily basis. And as we were once again reminded for the umpteenth time this last weekend, Al Davis needs help running a football team.

For those who need reminding, with the seventh pick of the 2009 draft, longtime zombie/owner Al Davis decided it best to select speedy University of Maryland wide receiver Darius Heyward-Bey. 

You’d be hard-pressed to find many analysts in the country who had Heyward-Bey going much higher than 22 to Minnesota, but nonetheless, Davis and cohorts decided on Heyward-Bey, because, well as we all know, Davis loves speed.

A couple media outlets including SI’s Peter King and Mike Lombardi of the National Football Posthad both reported rumors of the possibility of DHB being drafted at No. 7, but one would figure it would have had to have been the Raiders just blowing smoke, right?

Well, then again, we are talking about the Raiders here (if you didn’t read it already, Lombardi provides a strangely unsurprising account of the Raiders draft room circa the 1985 draft), and this is the same team that signed WR Javon Walker, DT Tommy Kelly, CB DeAngelo Hall, FS Gibril Wilson, and OT Kwame Harris to an astounding combination of $233-MILLION over 29 years in ‘08.

They then cut Walker, Hall, and Wilson all by season’s end.  At this point I’m not so sure Al Davis knows much about math let alone business or football.

But let’s assume for a moment that Al Davis is a math whiz, or at least someone with grade school mathematical knowledge.  He may not be the best at business math, but let’s assume that he knows simple math.

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