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Big-spending Raiders at it again, The Rainmaker headed to Dallas?

Attention citizens of the Bay Area: It’s raining cash in Oakland, so get out your umbrellas and turn them upside down.

The Raiders’ off-season spending spree continued on Thursday when they signed Pro Bowl corner DeAngelo Hall to a seven-year, $66 million deal, which will include more than $24 million in guaranteed money.

The long-term deal allowed the ribbon to be tied on their deal with Atlanta that will send Oakland’s 2008 second-round pick (#34 overall) and a 2009 fifth-rounder to the Falcons.

With all the money that Al Davis has thrown around in the past month, are the Raiders going to have any room to sign the Pro Bowl corner already on their roster? Nnamdi Asomugha’s going to bag almost $10 million this year, but what are they going to do after the season is done - keep franchising him for the next five years until he’s costing them $20 million against the cap, or give him a similar long-term deal as they are Hall?

Unless Stanford Routt or Fabian Washington - whoever doesn’t get traded, because there’s a good chance one will - use this signing to make it possible for Asomugha to leave and the secondary not take a hit, either they’ll have to pay him or start scouting potential 2009 draft targets. Who knows, maybe Oakland will have a Virginia Tech corner tandem of Hall and Victor ‘Macho’ Harris (a likely first-round pick next year) starting for them in 2009.

From a team that’s throwing around cash to cornerbacks to a cornerback that makes it rain like no other, the Dallas Morning News is reporting that the Cowboys and Titans have had preliminary talks regarding cornerback/return specialist/pro wrestler/rapper Pacman ‘The Rainmaker’ Jones going to Big D.

The compensation discussed in their report was a late-round pick, so it’d be a low-risk (at least in salary and what they have to give up), high-reward move, if Pacman stays out of trouble and plays at the high level that he’s capable of.

I don’t know if Jerry Jones would force him to stop going to strip clubs, because it doesn’t appear that he takes direction very well. So, are they going to have someone chaperone him, even on the off-chance that JJ does force him to stop hitting up the strip joints?

I can only imagine it…Pacman and Tony Romo, the best of friends, taking turns making it rain fresh $100 bills on Jessica Simpson.

At least he’ll be keeping him out of the strip clubs, right?

It’s all speculation right now, so for now, the safe thing to do is to keep a corner penciled in as one of Dallas’ first or second-round picks.

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