good point.. They faced the 14th, 17th, 18th, 26th, and 32nd rushing defenses in the league. McFadden's 164 yard game inflates the top 5 rushing offense... how about the 30th passing offense? Russell sure ain't doin shit there. And now they will scale down the playbook because he can't hack it? Pussies.
Uh, no. Miami's TEs killed us in the first game. After that, we only allowed one other halfway decent game to a TE (Utecht 4 for 34 yds), and one TD to Antonio Gates. Slot receivers have been killing us, largely for the coverage problems you mentioned above. I noticed a significant boost in our coverage of slot receivers once Poteat rejoined the team, though. Our other nickelbacks were garbage in the first few games. There were far too many completions across the middle on obvious passing downs. As far as Zach Miller is concerned, don't you find it sad, Joe, that Zach Miller makes you feel better about your receiving corps? Zach Miller! What the hell does that say about your WRs?
Exactly. 300 yards against KC doesn't demonstrate a consistently dominant rushing attack. 150 yards against Denver REALLY doesn't do that. 72 yards against San Diego? Wait...Joe...isn't that the same team that Miami rolled up for 167 yards rushing? Right...I guess Miami doesn't have a running game on par with Oakland's.
It's funny how he hasn't told us this is the Jets Super Bowl week, mostly because he knows it's the Raiders'
I think it's a guy girl thing... Hammering a joke into the ground it just what we do... and it's still funny
Actually, according to footballoutsiders.com, this "vaunted" Raiders rushing game is the 27th best in the league. In other words, its the 6th worst. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamoff
so the raiders strategy to beat the jets was to perform so poorly up until now that anger becomes the effective gameplan. right. your lack of intelligence is a black hole constantly collpasing on itself and expanding its oblivion much like the raiders.
Their special teams is not better than ours. The only TE that has killed us was Fasano in Week 1 but he's a pretty good TE in his own right. We have shut down every other TE with the exception of Gates. I don't think Michael Bush or Fargas will have much of an impact, their more short yardage/goal line backs who the Jets will dismantle easily unless they're in the red zone where the jets have had less than success on. Mcfadden could be the breaking point since he is a home run threat. But our Run D has shut down the likes of SD's run game, Ari's run game, Miami's run game, Oakland is next on teh list. See ya next yr radiajoey!
dude leon leads the league in k.o. yardage.our starting field position will be around our 40 my prediction:more bad posts by you
Raiderjoe is right here though. I'm being serious. It'll prolly be a tight game, and I don't think one side will blow out the other. But man I really like Oaklands chances here
They're not as talented as Miami/Diego, but few problems here: The Raiders played both the Bolts and the Bills tough. In fact, they had huge leads in both of those games. Something tells me if they get a decent lead on the Jets they won't blow it with the new guy. Those are both good, but not great teams. The Jets are a good, but not great team. There is also the element of the Jets traveling coast to coast also. The Jets don't do this often(in fact they've done NY to Cali trips like 3 times in the past 5 years and have gotten slaughtered in all of them). With the most recent being San Diego of course. Have the Jets even arrived in Oakland yet? If not when they do take off tomorrow?
^That's a decent point, about travel. We haven't historically been good on the WC. But I'd be very surprised if we lose this game. We match up perfectly against this piece of shit team--our receivers are going to kick their ass--I understand their starting a free-agent at SS sunday. Brett will tear them apart. Our defense is too tough against the run--how the hell is this rookie QB gonna pass against us? This could be a blowout for the jetsies--I'm actually expecting it.
I think that travel is, in fact, the great equalizer here. So far this year teams that have traveled cross-country are 3-11, losing by an average of more than 12 points. The Jets should win, and I think they will win, but I will be surprised if it's by as many as 10 points.
I think we all agree here on the traveling factor. What I don't agree on however is the point spread. If the Jets win(big if, I'm actually leaning towards Oakland) they don't win by more than 3. The Raiders are underrated and the Jets are coming off a hotstreak. This is just a recipe for disaster
I just don't think it's a good matchup for the Raiders. The Jets have been very good at stopping the run and have problems stopping the pass. The Raiders passing attack resembles that of my high school football team. The Chargers were a good matchup for them because they don't have a real strong run defense - same reason the fins matched up well against them. The Jets offense had close to 0 chemistry when they faced SD but were able to build some in garbage time there. They also match up well against us because they have a very good passing attack. I think the Bills are good but not great. They're over rated IMO and we'll see that over the next 3 weeks. They may lose there next 3 games. Miami is a better team IMO. I just don't see the raiders being able to move the ball on us and we should be able to put up points especially if we win the field position battle which I think we will. Traveling across the country will be a factor but not big enough. Jets 24 - Raiders 10
