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Streaks are made to be broken, as the Raiders proved this Sunday.  Oakland has finally won consecutive games, beating Seattle 33-3.   Darren McFadden was firing on all cylinders, Jason Campbell played intelligently, and former Washington Husky fullback Marcel Reece has created a buzz unseen in Oakland since the Golden State Warriors stunned the Dallas Mavericks in the 2007 NBA playoffs. Perhaps the play of the game was a fourth-and-1 on Seattle's 30-yard line.   Instead of bringing on Sebastian Janikowski for a 40-yard field goal, offensive coordinator Hue Jackson drew up a slant to Reece. Campbell threaded it through double coverage, and Reece ...
Hallelujah! We won, again. Now the comments about the inconsistency of the Oakland Raiders will be diminished. Actually, what else can you do but smile? I know you have been ridiculed on your job, at home, on the golf course and in the gym about being an Oakland Raiders fan. What are they going to say now, I wonder? Elias Trejo already wrote a wonderful recap of the game. Another BR colleague, David, wrote a powerful comment that really should be expanded to a full article. My call is inspiration and a little analysis. I focus on the passion and spirit of the team. Collectively, we ...
The Oakland Raiders defeated the Seattle Seahawks in Oakland. They are 4-4, and are sitting at .500 eight games into the season for the first time since 2002. The Raiders have now outscored their last two opponents 92-17 and have exceeded over 500 yards of total offense for the second straight week. The Raiders defense once again showed they can play a complete game when they get some help from their offense. Oakland totally dominated the Seahawks offense on a day where the talk during the game was about Seattle's third-down defense. The Raiders looked like a team that knows how to finish games. As ...
The Raider Nation is diverse. Some are tall, some are short; some are quiet and some loud. Some are young and some are old. The goal today is to get another win to break the trend of non-consecutive wins. Can it be done? Well, many of us believe it can. Yes, the victory last week lifted the spirit of the Raider Nation. Wasn't that a good feeling? A win today, on Halloween of all days, would send a signal that the trend is broken and the Oakland Raiders are free to fly high—or at least higher than last year's performance. Some of you curse to make ...
Welcome NFL fans to the live play-by-play blog of the Week 8 meeting between the Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders. I'm Jay Dee, featured columnist for the Raiders. Therefore, expect this to be a very biased account of the game! Pete Carrol and the Seattle Seahawks must have drawn the short straw this year. How else do you explain them having to travel to Northern California to take on the Oakland Raiders in front of the most rabid fans in the NFL—on Halloween no less?! Every home game in the Black Hole is a little like Halloween, but with the ...
The day has arrived! This has been a long seven years for the Raider Nation. But it ends today. No more false dawns, no more building for the future, no more learning lessons and moving on, no more harping back to Barrett Robbins going AWOL and losing a Super-Bowl. Forget Randy Moss and Warren Sapp. No more cursing the waste of talent that was JaMarcus Russell. No more worrying about injuries to Chaz Schilens or Louis Murphy. No more fretting at officials for duff calls. All these are excuse why we might lose—let’s have some reasons why OAKLAND IS GOING TO WIN! Led ...
Some of you are probably saying that those of us who believe that the Oakland Raiders are going to beat the mess out of the Seattle Seahawks are a little crazy to think that way. As much as I love to talk about numbers, this time it is important for the passion and drive of the Oakland Raiders to transcend the projections done with numbers. Let's just say that we are looking for the type of excellent performance that Darren McFadden had during the Denver Broncos game last week. Well, let's take a look at some data from Football Outsiders.  2010 Efficiency Ratings ...
(This slideshow includes all my picks for the 2010 Pro Bowl).It's that time of year again. No, not the day before Halloween, or another publicity stunt in Washington.  Not the weekend before the 2010 US elections.It's Pro Bowl votin' time.  As Howard Dean would say, "Yeah!"I must admit that I really should be more concerned with the election on Tuesday and reading up on the issues. But as I have come to realize over the years, pro football is meant to inoculate people from caring about anything else, including government and future of the country.Eventually, I concluded that politics is analogous ...
This week the Seattle Seahawks No. 2 ranked rushing defense and the Oakland Raiders No. 3 ranked rushing attack are set to square off in Oakland. Could this be the classic case of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object, or could this be something else? The Raiders currently hold the No. 3 rushing attack and are averaging 4.7 yards per carry. This is largely due to the 328 yards rushing the Raiders accumulated last week against division rival Denver Broncos. The Seattle Seahawks boast the second-ranked rushing defense in terms of total yards given up.  Many are expecting the Raiders to struggle ...
Many disgruntled fantasy owners were pushed one step farther towards the edge this week with Oakland Raiders running back Darren McFadden claiming he was “about 70 percent,” news that caused many to either keep him on their bench, or drop him all together. And it may have cost them what could be his peak performance of the year. Darren McFadden has been nothing short of a bright spot for fantasy owners gaining 100 or more all-purpose yards in every game he has played this year, until that hamstring injury. Moreover, he also has three 100-plus rushing yard games to his credit, and is ...