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Published on 09/04/2007 at Tue Sep 04 10:46.
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Raiders Cut 3rd Rounder Moses by Mistake

Posted Tue Sep 4th by

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The Arizona Cardinals recently jumped on 3rd round pick Quentin Moses off waivers after the Raiders released the defensive end as the team approached the 53-man roster deadline. Seeing a Day One Draft pick get cut before the season is a rare thing in today’s NFL, but this story could be just too good/funny to be true.

Talk about salt on an open wound.

It is being reported that Moses’ release is due to an administrative error on the part of the Oakland Raiders front office, and the team was unable to fix the mistake until after the release went official and it was too late.

Radio 680am just reported that Quentin Moses was let go in error. Apparently Don Johnson, an assistant coach on the defensive line had submitted a prioritized list of players he wanted to keep. Moses was inadvertently left off the list. He then sent a separate email to a guy named Jeff Birren who works in administration. Birren thought Moses was to be added to the release list, so he added the name and faxed it in to league offices in New York. The error was not discovered until after the move was official. Accidents happen.

This is by no means official, and I haven’t found it on KFFL.com since this quote was pulled by the MVN link above. But if it is true, this is simply priceless stuff here. The Raiders say they are “committed to excellence” – maybe they should just try to be “committed to not sabotaging our own team.”

  • http://www.kffl.com TommyGirl

    This is an unsubstantiated rumor. There are several reasons that it cannot be true.

    1) To assume that Moses was cut by mistake would ALSO assume that one player that SHOULD have been cut was NOT cut. In essence, one stupid error would have meant two stupid errors.

    2) The guy assumed to have made the mistake is Oakland’s lead counsel. He’s not manning the fax machine.

    3) Lane Kiffin called every kept player and every cut player on Friday night, as evidenced by subsequent player interviews.

    4) Moses was scouted as an OLB in a 3-4 scheme. He is one dimensional in a 4-3. He’s a pass rush specialist whose weakness is against the run. The weakness of Oakland’s defense IS the run. Richardson played much, much better in the RDE spot the last two games of the pre-season. ‘Nuff said?

    5) Kiffin commented over a week ago that there are no scholarship players and that being drafted high did NOT guarantee a place on the team. He held true to his word as evidenced by perennial Al Davis favorites being cut on Saturday, as well as Moses.

    6) This has not been picked up by ANY of the major news outlets, only bloggers and PFT, which is a self-professed publisher of NFL rumors.

    Even the Raiders are not this colossaly stupid. People need to use a little bit of common sense, but you’re shown your bias very clarly (as if the orange and blue wasn’t enough).

  • hercules rockefeller

    Classic Raiders.

  • jeremy

    Biased? Ya think?

    The place should just become a fan site.

    Oh wait…

    But the bigger issue is that he was wrongly drafted? Is that what TommyGirl is saying?

  • http://www.broncotalk.net Jonathan Douglas

    While this might seem like a case of internet exaggeration, the truth of the matter is that the Raiders released their 3rd round draft choice who was (by most accounts) having a good preseason.

    Peter King over at SI.com says:

    Something stinks in Oakland. The Raiders released third-round defensive end Quentin Moses. When I was in Raiders camp, there was talk of him starting this year. Smells like a disagreement between Al Davis and Lane Kiffin over the final roster. To me, it’s a terrible mistake. Moses will play, and play well, in the NFL; and the Raiders will be embarrassed over this. The Cardinals claimed him. I bet he’ll be starting for the Cardinals by Oct. 1. What a dumb cut that was.

    So, regardless of whether this was clerical (doubtful) or the product of an owner/coach dispute (more likely), it’s still an ugly media mess.

    And, yes, Denver had to deal with a similar media nightmare when Shanahan cut his 3rd round draft choice once. There was NO clerical error in that case, but then no team snatched up Maurice Clarett when he cleared waivers either.

    -Jonathan Douglas
    –BroncoTalk.net