Justin Fargas and Michael Bush on the Trade Block?

CBS Sports reported on Sunday Oct. 12 that Justin Fargas and Michael Bush of the Oakland Raiders are potential trade bait before Tuesday's NFL deadline.

So, the pattern continues. Someone is intentionally and selectively feeding high profile NFL journalists with early scoops supposedly obtained from an un-named source inside Raiders HQ. Last time it was Jay Glazer at Fox Sports and Chris Mortensen at ESPN (regarding Kiffin's imminent firing). This time it went to CBS Sports.

Lane Kiffin is gone, so that would suggest Kiffin was not the information leak. Maybe Kiffin's friend Mark Jackson, still on staff within Raiders HQ in some low-level administrative capacity is the secret source, who knows?

It just doesn't seem to be the style of Al Davis or his cronies to stir the pot of controversy by slipping scoops to the media types they complain about.  It would be a reverse propaganda technique that makes no sense.  That would imply an oaf like John Herrera, laconic PR specialist Mike Taylor, or some unknown individuals within Raiders HQ have some form of sophisticated PR mindset—which we know they don't. Or if they do, that would be very shocking.

All Raiders HQ has ever shown in the way of strategy and customer relations is to emphatically deny everything, regardless if the information would help or hurt the franchise in the public domain. Ineptitude is an appropriate description most of the time when it comes to anything to do with Raiders public relations.

Here's the bottom line: Raiders Senior Executive John Herrera has denied Fargas and Bush are on the trade block. This means they are in fact on the trade block.

Raiders management must see a serious need to fill if they are offering up two thirds of their backfield to get it.