Greg Kurth was thrown for a loss after he said:
 EG>> George. Most of the players that the Raiders got were guys who were
 EG>> unwanted their old teams.
 GK>      Exactly! Unwanted because they were thought to be washed up, or
 GK>     uncontrolable......malcontents.
Hardly. You mentioned 4 players and one of them was always a Raider. Matuzak 
and Hendricks weren't considered washed up, they were both caught up in the 
politics of the WFL. Alzado would have been considered the closest to *washed 
up* in the group of 4 that you mentioned and much of that came from the spin 
doctors at Cleveland. Now, you'd be right about Plunkett because he was 
considered washed up.
Todd Christensen wasn't a malcontent with Dallas or New York, he just wanted 
to play RB and it was only in Oakland that he accepted the fact that his 
future in the NFL was at TE. A number of Raiders found themselves playing 
different positions, even different sides of the line after they got to 
Oakland. Most of the guys that they got were NEVER deemed "uncontrolable" and 
quite a few were languishing on other teams' benches. The Raiders were the 
NFL's early version of Plan B - giving guys a chance to play after years of 
sitting behind another player. When teams didn't specialize, there were guys 
that languished on benches for years, despite being as talented as the *star* 
that was playing ahead of them.
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