Here is a link to my Monday column about Matt McGloin. The full column appears below: OAKLAND -- Put the Raiders game out of your mind. Forget they lost to the Tennessee Titans 23-19. Forget their defense collapsed at the end, gave up the lead and the game. Forget all [...]
Here is a link to my Monday column about the Raiders getting blown out by the Eagles. The full text appears below: OAKLAND Questions I wanted to ask Raiders coach Dennis Allen after his team got murdered by Philadelphia 49-20. I was held back by a sense of decorum: What [...]
Here is a link to my column about the Raiders' win over the Steelers. The full text appears below. OAKLAND -- After the game, after the former Oakland Raiders beat the former Pittsburgh Steelers 21-18 in the latest installment of their former torrid rivalry, world-famous defensive back Charles Woodson stood [...]
Here is a link to my Friday column about the Raiders. The full text appears below. The Raiders used to have an unwritten contract with their fans: Just win, baby. They still have an unwritten contract, but the contract’s wording is different. What is the new contract? Just show progress, [...]
So, I'm driving across the Bay Bridge a few minutes ago on my way to the Niners game. I'm listening to the Raiders -- who play very good defense -- and I hear analyst Lincoln Kennedy say Terrelle Pryor must be more aware of the "24-second clock." Something sounds wrong [...]
Here is the opening to my Monday column about the Raiders third loss of the season: OAKLAND Let’s start with a small point about the Raiders’ 24-14 loss to the Redskins. With the Raiders, there really aren’t any big points. They do not contend for anything significant. They do not [...]
My Thursday column previews the football season for both the 49ers and Raiders, examines what's up and what's down. I must say it's pretty exciting that NFL ball starts for us on Sunday. Here is the opening to the column: NFL football is about to arrive in the Bay Area, [...]
Here is the opening to my Tuesday column about the Raiders and the Tyler Wilson fiasco: The Raiders, who aspire to become a football team, committed the unforgivable. They blew it with a high draft choice, blew it badly. On Sunday, they waived fourth-round pick, quarterback Tyler Wilson. Wilson, it [...]
It was supposed to be Terrelle Pryor's unveiling as the new and very special Raiders' QB. Forget Matt Flynn. So Pryor's passer rating was 9.9 vs. the Seahawks. Please tell me in what way he is an upgrade over Flynn.
Here is the opening to my Saturday column from the Raiders' third exhibition game: OAKLAND -- The Oakland Raiders’ story is so tired. And tiresome. And the season hasn’t even started. Or maybe it’s the same old story. This is a football team that can’t play football in the usual [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.