He’s back, baby!
The drum playing, Yoda quoting, former first-round pick, UFL Champion quarterback JP Losman is back in the NFL. Not only that, there’s a damn good chance he’ll be starting the final three games for the Oakland Raiders.
If you’re looking for JaMarcus Russell, he’s in the corner, weeping silently, eating a Twinkie.
Seriously, it looked pretty bad when Tom Cable wouldn’t christen Russell as his starter, especially when option number two was Charlie Frye. JaMarcus, dude, if you would’ve lost the starting gig to Frye, then your only option to save face would be to off yourself.
But then it went and got worse for you. Remember, Losman wasn’t even in the NFL this year. True, he was playing “professional” football, albeit in the XFL UFL, but goddamn, it was the UFL, for a team called the Las Vegas Somethings (Locomotives…thanks again, Google), in a league that looks more and more like a one and done pro league. And one final thing, just to stick the knife in a little more, Losman lost his job to Trent Edwards…who lost his job to Ryan Fitzpatrick.
But I can’t feel too bad for Russell. True, it’s more than likely he’ll never take a snap for the Raiders again, and it’s possible he may be out of the league at the end of this year. But Russell got a shitload of Al Davis’ money, so he’s got that going for him.
Money or not, with every new day it becomes more and more apparent that JaMarcus Russell is destined to join Ryan Leaf, Tim Couch, Akili Smith, etc., as yet another high-profile, first-round draft bust.
