by A.J. Coltrane
According to reports, the Raiders have traded for Carson Palmer. I would have been in favor of the Seahawks acquiring Palmer, but not at this price:
…the Raiders agreed to send their first-round draft choice in 2012 and a conditional pick in 2013 — which could become a first-round pick based on the level of Palmer’s play — to Cincinnati in exchange for the 31-year-old Palmer.
Yikes. Then there’s this:
This had better work for the Raiders, because there’s no cavalry coming if Palmer fails. The Raiders could get a compensatory pick in as high as the end of the third round for the loss of Nnamdi Asomugha in free agency. But for now they’ve traded three 2012 picks for quarterbacks — Palmer (first-rounder), Terrelle Pryor (third-) and Jason Campbell (fourth-) — and lost the second- in exchange for picks this year to take rookie tackle Joe Barksdale and running back Taiwan Jones.
The Seahawks may have actually dodged a bullet. So long as the quarterback position doesn’t become a reanimation of the Kelly Stouffer/ Dan McGwire/ Rick Mirer zombie carousel, anyway.
In other news, boy was I wrong about Aaron Curry, but then, so was everybody.
Raiders fans seem excited though.
FlatbreadGarden 
I just hope that the announcement to Tebow starting this weekend, is not a way for the Broncos to show him off to potential suitors. I will take Jackson over Tebow or McNabb any day.
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