According to Raiders beat writer Vittorio Tafur, the Raiders will be having free agent CB Tracy Porter in for a visit "in the next couple of days."

The Raiders have been mentioned as a possible landing spot for Porter since it's been known that he would not be retained by the Saints.  This is due, in part, to the team's need at that position and because the Raiders' head coach Dennis Allen was the secondary coach for the Saints during their Super Bowl run and coached Porter at that time.

Porter plays primarily at right corner back or in the slot.  He's played primarily in the slot in his career with the Saints.

Despite signing cornerback Ronald Bartell on Friday, the Raiders are still looking for help at cornerback as they are very thin at that position - even with Bartell's signing they still only have 4 cornerbacks currently on the roster.

On Friday, the Raiders met with former 49ers CB Shawnte Spencer.  Raiders new defensive coordinator Jason Tarver was with the 49ers for year before a year at Stanford last season and will be familiar with Spencer's abilities.  That the Raiders are looking at him most likely means that Tarver thinks he's a possible future Raider.

Spencer is another big cornerback at 6'1", 190 lbs.  He was a 2nd round draft pick in 2004.  He was a starter at right cornerback for the 49ers almost from the start.

The Raiders went the morning without doing anything of note but there was a flurry of Raider related activity in the afternoon.  At about 12:30 PM Pacific, it was reported by numerous sources that the Raiders would, in fact, cut LB Kamerion Wimbley.

If the Raiders had not cut Wimbley by 1:00pm Pacific, his contract called for a large amount of the contract to be guaranteed and that forced the team's hand to cut him since he was not willing to come to a restructure deal that satisfied Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie.

I've been talking with Raider Nation a lot on Twitter recently (if you don't already follow me and you're on Twitter, there's a link at the bottom of this article - follow me, I try to tweet a lot throughout the day) about the Raiders moves this off-season.

My opinion is that the Raiders are going about free agency and cleaning up the team's contract situations the right way; I believe this is a necessary period.  I thought I would explain some of my thoughts.

With the salary cap and teams revenue sharing, the NFL is as even a playing ground as any professional sport and a good deal more fair than most. 

According to NFL reporter Adam Caplan, tomorrow at 4pm Wimbley's contract calls for a bonus if he is still on the team.

This bonus is seperate than the guaranteed money that Wimbley will get if he's still on the team after Saturday, March 17th.

If Wimbley's contract does, in fact, call for a bonus for being on the team tomorrow, expect some action with him earlier in the day.

As there have been absolutely no leaks that the two sides are talking it would be a surprise if he remained a Raider.  Therefore, it's likely that he will be cut tomorrow.

As a vested veteran, he will not be subject to waivers and will immediately be a free agent.  He will be able to be paid whatever his new contract calls for plus $6.5 million from the Raiders that was guaranteed in the contract he signed last year.

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Raiders' new GM Reggie's McKenzie's philosophy is starting to take shape now 3 days into his first free agency.

For starters, he's not a fan of contracts that he feels are "out of whack."  John Henderson, Kevin Boss, Chris Johnson, Stanford Routt, Carson Palmer, Richard Seymour, Hiram Eugene - all had contracts that were either too high for their level of play or too much a hit against the salary cap and all were mentioned as being possible targets. 

Those Raiders fans who were interested in the Raiders making some moves in day two of the 2012 free agency market came away disappointed.

The Raiders continue to wait patiently while the market falls and their money can stretch farther.

Even while waiting the team was still making moves, however.  Today the team released two more players - G Cooper Carlisle and DT John Henderson.

Carlisle is 34 and been with the Raiders since 2007 and has started for the team ever since, missing only one game in that time.  He specialized in the zone blocking scheme but has been able to survive in the power blocking scheme that Hue Jackson brought with him.  He was due $3.3 million this season and his release saves the Raiders $2.1 million against the cap.