Art Shell is many things, but he's nobody's puppet. When the former coach of the Oakland Raiders traveled to Miami Monday to spend nearly five hours being interviewed for an opening that was, for all intents and purposes, already closed, Shell understood the situation. He's been in it much of his life. (Full article: 2440 words)

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