ALAMEDA, Calif. -- To say Tahir Whitehead scoffs at the notion that he might be overwhelmed by the "new" responsibility of wearing the green-dot communications helmet as the Oakland Raiders' defensive playcaller ... well, that would be an understatement.
And then some.
Especially because Whitehead -- technically a strongside linebacker in the Raiders' 4-3 scheme -- is in his eighth NFL season and there are only two seasons in which he has not been the playcaller.
"That's what people fail to understand -- this s--- is not foreign to me," Whitehead said this week.