Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

The Raiders. Now I want to preface this by saying I do have pretty high hopes for the Raiders this year.

I've got concerns about the Raiders this year, but I've got pretty high hopes.

And I like the new regime. Although the new regime may have misstepped already a couple of times.

I like the upside, I like the potential, I like what I see.

I just preface what I'm about to say with all of that. Now here's what I'm about to say.

They did cut 2021 first round draft pick Alex Leatherwood.

Last year's first round pick, cut!

That's not easy to do.

It is not easy to be taken in the first round and then cut the next year. They flat out cut him,

released him, kicked him to the curb, broke him the hell off. How about these picks or these numbers?

17th pick, 17 games, hit the bricks, pal.

Roughly 16 months after he was drafted, Leatherwood can now pull up a chair right alongside Tony Mandrich,

Jamarcus Russell, Heath Schuler, and Johnny Manzel at the table of giraffe bus.

That is a truly disastrous pick.

One that everybody not named John Gruden and Mike Mayock knew would be a disaster.

Yet they still went ahead anyway.

They still made that pick anyway.

Speaking of Gruden, 1,500 miles away, Gruden himself was actually

showing up at the Little Rock Touchdown Club and let me say this about the video from the event because I know what you'll do.

This is the one day I'm happy I'm not on TV because I can't, I know that you won't see the

video and then start reacting. I shouldn't have to say this but I'm

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