the REAL Raiders showed up to play! As bad as we got beat at the Meadowlands, and, on that same day, Philly had beat up on TB, not too many folks would have given the Raiders any chance against the Eagles, myself included. I was at the Giants game. I didn’t see an inspired team, so I had no reason to think that they could muster it up. Even with Giants LB Pierce’s comments about the game being a scrimmage, it was hard to believe that the Raiders would play hard for 60 minutes. Also, with the word out that the game was blacked out due to low ticket sales, there was little to believe in.

Keep it up guys! You showed what you can do when it all comes together!

for me, anyway. I live in the DC area, so I have to listen to all this stuff about the Redskins. The Raiders win, the Redskins lose, both teams have the same record, but the ’Skins are in last place in their division.

Ahhh, life is good today!

Great D. Change it up. I love it.

Two picks by JRuss speaks for itself.

More in the sense that they finally know how to lose; ie, not showing up with the right mental attitude. yesterday’s win was all about attitude from Murphy’s block (s), to Fargas justifying to all that his role on the team is crucial as very few RBs in the league can pick up blitzes and run recklessly the way he can, to Seymour showing why he’s worth that 1st round pick in 2 years, to Howard covering the flat. However, to win consistently, we all know that you need that OL to make those blocks, a run game to move the chains, WR separating from defenders, and have a dominating D while limiting turnovers. Now the reality, JR still does not trust his WRs routes, our return teams (punt and kickoff) are weak, and our CB coverage can be downright scary (Routt and Johnson are unpredictable). It was great to see JR with urgency and confidence; he played well enough for us to win. It’s part of his development and he’ll get there once the WRs get up the curve where they can all move from reacting to anticipating. Great to see the vaunted Philly offence lost and looking like a deer caught in headlights.

I bet the Saints felt as if it was just a scrimmage for them playing the Giants!! That has to BURN Pierce… thats what you get for talking sh*t B*tch

It was awesome to see John Marshall go back to his agressive play calling. That is the kind of defense that was able to take Seattle to the super bowl!!

This defense has the talent to be great if they can be a little less predictable. I don’t care how talented you are. If you play straight-up man on every play eventually you will get beat.

anyone will understand the difficulty a west coast team has playing on the road in the east. The Raiders looked disinterested and out of sync in both Houston and NY, and were criticized endlessly. But think about it for a minute, a west coast team traveling East arrives the day before and has to get up on a Sunday morning around 4 a.m. PDT to get ready for a 10 a.m. PDT starting time. Is it any wonder that they look disinterested and out of sync. Football is a very violent sport and frankly the body clock is just not ready for violent hitting at 10 a.m. particularly when you are still asleep. Week after week, west coast teams go east and get pounded but nobody seems to understand how difficult that is for west coast teams. East coast teams come west and the game starts at 4 p..m. EST. NO problem they have had plenty of rest, probably slept in and are ready to play.

Will someone please give the pigeon a game ball, he was our 12 man on the field for most of the game! Did anyone else see that bird in action?

his stubborn mentality on defense was to man up every play and rush 4. once in a while (maybe a few times a game max), a 4 man rush can actually apply some pressure, but for the most part, it won’t, especially considering they have 5 lineman and probably leave a back to block. the man to man coverage is great if you have 2 amazing corners and elite safeties. al davis thinks he still has mike haynes, lester hayes, george atkinson, and jack tatum. nnamdi fits the bill, but chris johnson doesn’t. he’s been a disappointment this year, nowhere near as effective as last year. hiram eugene still starts over michael huff. tyvon branch is looking great against tight ends though, as celek only had a few plays this week.

however, marshall even said this week that he knew he’d get yelled at, but he didnt care. he played cover 2 a lot. they did have some plays with the 4 man rush + man to man coverage. this isn’t horrible, but it shouldn’t be used exclusively. for the most part, the raiders defense resembled the eagles. send 5-7 guys on every given play. sometimes even 8, and sometimes only 4, but constantly dial up the pressure. the zone coverage really helps out, especially when our LB’s are good pass defenders. we saw jon alston and thomas howard make some plays in the passing game.

Al Davis also drafted darren mcfadden the very year that fargas had his breakout season (1000+ yards). you dont draft a RB the very year yours breaks out. in addition, he forced mcfadden into the starting lineup. sure, mcfadden had his greait game against the chiefs last year and he has more speed than fargas, but fargas is the better RB right now. he’s better in pass protection, hes a much tougher runner down the middle, and he has good burst through the hole. there was all the talk how mcfadden was so explosive at getting to the corner in training camp, and how he lined up as a receiver and what not, but we havn’t seen ANY of that this year. then keep running dmac up the middle for 3 yard gains. thats not what he’s meant to do. thats like giving mike alsott pitches and sweeps. mcfadden isn’t cut out to be an every down back. that so called power they talked about is non existent, but al davis pushed him into the starting lineup with visions of a bo jackson.

when the coaches made the right calls, we won. i know mcfadden was out, but al davis was also a strong supporter of michael bush. i am, too, but the coaches should decide who plays, not the owner. the coaches for a while have been saying fargas is better, but kept sending out the young guys. fargas played EXACTLY how he did his breakout year, and the blitz-happy defense destroyed the eagles

If y’all was wondering where I was yesterday, I wasn’t gonna pass up a chance to actually watch our boys. Good performance. I have it DVR’d and if I get a chance before next game, I’ll watch it again and try to break down what I saw. No promises though; life is busy right now.

but Louis Murphy is looking like an absolute steal in rd 4!!!!!!

and happy Russell showed improvement, but we can’t say we turned the corner until we keep this going. If we keep it going then we can look back and say this game was the beginning of the end of the sucking.

in front of me was that was standing up and yelling.."SEE…THAT’S WHY WE DRAFTED HIM 1ST… SEE.. HE’S GOT TALENT YO!! What an idiot! It truly is amazing how overly arrogant Raider fans can be….. We won bcuz of D and JaBUSTER Russell is still the WORST QB in the college or pro and DHB is still pure garbage as a receiver! We STILL won’t make the playoffs but at least the D showed some heart… but we still won’t win more than 4 games this season… It’s just hilarious how people are getting carried away after beating a mediocre eagles team! And a kicker in the FIRST ROUND…I don’t care if he becomes a Hall of Famer…is ALWAYS an idiotic pick!

I’m still not sold and with Sanchez having a bad day throwing the ball and thomas Jones running for over 200 yards you just know they are going run. I remain optomistic but only time will tell.

Go Raiders!