PRO FOOTBALL / DAILY REPORT : RAIDERS : Patterson Sent Home by Shell

Elvis Patterson is gone.

At least for now.

When the Raiders resumed practice at their Oxnard training camp Monday, Patterson, defensive back and special-teams captain, was not on hand.

Patterson is being disciplined for an altercation during which he manhandled defensive backfield coach Jack Stanton.

But Raider Coach Art Shell refused to speculate on Patterson’s fate, conceding only that the 31-year-old veteran is “on suspension until something is decided.”

When will that be?

“When I do something,” Shell told reporters. “I’ll let you know. There is no time frame.”

Patterson and Stanton engaged in a heated argument last Friday at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz., where the Raiders were scrimmaging the Phoenix Cardinals.

The dispute ended abruptly when Patterson grabbed Stanton, 54, and slammed him to the ground.

Shell talked to Patterson, then sent him home.

Shell acknowledged he has never seen anything quite like Patterson’s outburst.

“Not in this organization,” Shell said. “It was a shock. We all get upset. We all lose control. But you can’t let it get to that point.”

If the Raiders decide that Patterson won’t be invited to rejoin the team, the next step would be to see what they could get for him in a trade.

Asked about the seven Raider veterans who are not in training camp--running back Marcus Allen, receiver Tim Brown, defensive backs Terry McDaniel and Lionel Washington, linebacker Winston Moss and defensive linemen Greg Townsend and Scott Davis, all of whom are sitting out because of pay disputes--Shell replied, “The only time during the day that I think about

them is when you bring them up.

“Now at night, I can’t say the same thing.”