Remember how we said the Rai-duhs weren't going to release Kerry Collins? Oops.

Yesterday they officially released Collins in an attempt to save the Raiders 9.1 million against the salary cap. We had actually thought Collins was that much safer because of the new CBA which raised team's salary cap to $102 million and gave the Raiders more money, but we were wrong.

Maybe.

It is possible that the Raiders did this as part of a way of resigning Collins for less money. Instead of re-negotiating his contract, they just release him and then redo the contract again from scratch. Just like what the Lambs did with Isaac Bruce. Already there's talk that the Rai-duhs are in contact with Collins agent and are moving forward doing just that. But there are also rumors that Collins is getting feelers from the Baltimore Ravens where Collins' old coach and only guy to get a lot out of him, Jim Fassel, is the QB coach.

This raises the question of what now, Silver & Black cow? Currently, they now have only two QBs on their roster, Marques Tuiasosopo, who didn't do so hot when he played last season, and second-year quarterback Andrew Walter who missed all of last season with a groin tear. Ouch. There were rumors flying everywhere about reuniting Randy with Daunte Culpepper, but they seem to have subsided as the Vikings are asking too much. We wonder too how much sense that would be as Culpepper couldn't come any cheaper than Collins.

As for free agent QBs out there, other than Daunte and Drew Brees, there aint' much out there unless the Two Al's have a thing from Brian Griese or John Kitna. There's also speculation that the Rai-duhs are going to draft somebody like Vince Young, but we still don't think that'll happen. Did you see pictures of the Alster at the big NFL meetings this week? Dude looks pretty hagard. We just don't see Al going with a young guy as we don't see Al thinking he's got enough years to nurture a rookie QB.

In other words, we dunno. We still think it'll be Collins in the end but trying to read what's going on is pretty frickin' difficult. In other words, stay tuned.