Shell Boots Team from Practice early.

Taking my morning stroll through the Bay Area Sports section for Raiders news, I came across the above linked article from The Oakland Tribune

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NAPA — In the morning, coach Art Shell gushed over his team's practice energy, intensity and said "they met the challenge."

Five hours later, Shell was so disgusted by what he saw, he called the team together in the middle of the field and told them to get out of his sight.

Thus did a scheduled two-hour practice end 50 minutes early.

It was a sobering sight as the team traipsed off the field in subdued silence after the first and most damning chewing out of the year by its new coach.

Although the practice didn't look particularly shoddy, Shell clearly saw something disturbing.

"You've got to work out there," he told the media.

Players still appeared chastised after showering and leaving the clubhouse.

"I apologize for that (stuff) that happened today," quarterback Aaron Brooks said.

Asked what Shell said during his diatribe, defensive tackle Warren Sapp said, "It was a statement that was pretty well felt throughout the whole team I would expect. And if it wasn't, then we're in trouble."
Sapp said that to a man, player and coach, everybody "got the message."

While Sapp said he had never seen a coach call practice to a halt because he didn't like what he was seeing, quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo said he had experienced it in high school.

"We were messing around," he said. "A couple of guys got in a fight, and coach kicked us off the field.

"I don't think it was a particular play (that led to Shell's blowup), probably just the overall tone of the practice. Guys weren't going hard. They were going through the motions.

"It probably wasn't the best practice we've had. We have to practice better if we want to be better. Better (it happen) now than later, I guess."

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Via: Inside Bay Area
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If we were the coach of The Raiders this is something we would've done long ago. In fact, if we were so disgusted by poor play that we wanted the team out of our site, we would've kicked them off the field during the third quarter of monday night's game against Minnesota. It would've resulted in a forefit I'm sure, but sometimes you've just got to say no to bad football.

It is for this reason, that we can add will never be an NFL coach to the list right behind will never write TV for TNA or WWE.

But, the Raiders need a coach that won't put up with crap and hopefully Art Shell is that coach. It will all be told on the scoreboard once the games actually count.