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Oakland Raiders: Loyalty is admirable, but you can’t rewire old and slow

There have been plenty of head-scratching, eyebrow-raising moves Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has made this offseason, but one really stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Back in March, it was announced that Reggie Nelson was being brought back to the Silver and Black on a one-year deal in a move as surprising and ghastly, as it was incomprehensible. After all, didn’t we just suffer through two years of seeing Nelson chasing after receivers who’d blown by him, waving his arms and cursing at them like the man impotently shaking his fist at the sky when it rains?