When Lane Kiffin took over as Raiders' head coach, one of the first things he told his new players was that he didn't want to dwell on what went wrong last season. For the players who suffered through a 2-14 campaign that led to the Raiders being the butt of jokes on late-night comedy shows and coach Art Shell being fired, that was a welcome tact.

Randy Moss, according to head coach Lane Kiffin, is not on the trading block, nor has he been discussed in talks with the Packers, the Patriots or any other team. Kiffin confirmed the truth yet again. "I've never had a conversation with Randy, at all, about trading him,'' said Kiffin, who sees Moss in a Raiders uniform this fall. "I think he'll be on our team. Yeah, I do,'' Kiffin said emphatically.

According to the Oakland Tribune, the Raiders are interested in bringing in a veteran quarterback and Daunte Culpepper is high on their wish list.

The Jets signed free-agent quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo on Friday. Tuiasosopo spent his first six NFL seasons with Oakland, which drafted him in the second round in 2001. He appeared in 11 games with the Raiders, including two starts, and completed 48 of 88 passes for 550 yards and two touchdowns. The athletic 28-year-old also rushed 15 times for 68 yards. He's expected to compete with second-year quarterback Kellen Clemens for the No. 2 job behind starter Chad Pennington.

The Raiders have signed quarterback Josh Booty, the former prep star who has been out of football since 2003 and has never thrown a pass in the NFL. Booty was one of the nation's top high school quarterbacks in 1993 when he decided to play baseball instead of football. He spent five years with the Marlins but played only 13 games at the major league level.

Raiders running back Dominic Rhodes pleaded guilty to reckless driving Wednesday after prosecutors dropped drunken driving charges against him. The 28-year-old Rhodes, who spent the past six seasons with the Colts, was fined $1,000 in exchange for the guilty plea during a brief appearance in Marion County Criminal Court. He was stopped on Feb. 20.

The Green Bay Packers and Oakland Raiders are not close to a trade in which the Packers would acquire wide receiver Randy Moss, NFL sources familiar with the situation told the Journal Sentinel today. Officials from both teams labeled as inaccurate a report written by Michael Felger of the Boston Herald quoting a source in Wisconsin that the two teams "are on the verge of announcing a trade that would send the troubled wide receiver to Green Bay in exchange for backup quarterback Aaron Rodgers." "It's all a joke," a personnel man for one of the two clubs said. "It's not true," said another personnel man for one of the two teams. "That's just stupid."

A source in Wisconsin said Thursday that the Packers and Raiders are on the verge of announcing a trade that would send Randy Moss to Green Bay in exchange for backup quarterback Aaron Rodgers. However, one source close to Rodgers adamantly denied the rumor, saying, to his knowledge, the Raiders and Packers have not had substantive discussions.

A deal could be in the works between the Packers and Oakland Raiders for Randy Moss, and the management staff will hold meetings on Tuesday to discuss interest in bringing Moss to Green Bay. A recent report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel said that general manager Ted Thompson has had discussions with Oakland owner Al Davis about a trade for Moss, with discussions reaching the point of the Packers speaking with Moss' agent about restructuring his current contract if a deal gets done. "They're going to get rid of him," an unnamed league source told the Journal-Sentinel. "I think they think they can trade him. And I know Green Bay has interest." Thompson has not spoken about a possible deal for Moss in public. "Ted has not spent a lot of time talking to me about it, quite honestly," Bob Harlan, chairman of the Packer's board, told the Journal-Sentinel. "Ted always starts out our meetings with a football report so he may get into that."

The Raiders gave Dominic Rhodes a lot of money to be their running back for the next two years. They provided him a lead blocker as well. The Raiders continued to overhaul their backfield Saturday, signing free agent fullback Justin Griffith. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but ESPN.com reported that the two-time Pro Bowl alternate agreed to a three-year deal worth $3.8 million.