To quote Miley Cyrus – and we’ll apologize profusely for that up front – Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has come in like a wrecking ball. He’s purged the roster of some familiar faces, while bringing in a boatload of new ones. Virtually no position group was left untouched.
Which, given the fact that they finished a disappointing and underachieving 6-10 last season, may not be such a bad thing.
One of the position groups that underwent the most extreme makeover though, was Oakland’s cornerbacks group. Gruden waltzed in and jettisoned dead weight like David Amerson and Sean Smith, and then allowed the best of the bunch, T.