Just for consistent disruptive presence. How does Al find these gems in the mid-rounds but whiff so consisently on his first round picks? Makes no sense.

Guy I thought should be mentioned: Gerard Warren. If he could always play with the fire he does when he plays the Broncos (the team he believs wronged him), he would be one of the best DTs in the game.

Two unsung defensive heroes: 1) Nnamdi, as always. Does his job so well, you never hear his name unless he’s tackling offensive linemen twice his size.

2) Richard Seymour. If you look at the stat sheet, you’ll see he had only one tackle. But look at the two men who play the opposite defensive end position and you’ll see they combined for 7 tackles and 3 sacks. Why? Because Seymour was eating the double team all day. He’s also a major reason why Kelly was as disruptive as he was. When playing hard, he’s oftentimes too much for a guard to handle one-on-one.

A team effort that we can all appreciate, that’s for sure.

The defense gets an “A” for holding down Denver’s offense to 4 FGs and a TD. I t was the difference b/w losing by a score of 35 to 20 vs winning 20-19. All units, ie line, LBs and DBs all had to contribute.

Offensively, did I ever hear Langston Walker’s name? He slipped right in to the guard position that it makes you wonder about putting he and Gallery at the G positions. Sound crazy to have such large guards? Maybe, but with this type of offense it may create the mismatches that can be helpful in this type of scheme.

Michael Bush has earned the ability to be the starter, let him gain confidence and use the other 2 backs to complement him, not the other way around. McFadden has to prove hiimself.

Our QB situation is a 2 1/2 headed beast. I like Frye, I like Gradkowski because you can see how they think and react to what is in front of them. They can proactively cause defenses to overplay their motions. Case in point, 3rd and 9 and Frye who hasn’t played all year brilliantly juked the defense with a fake pass to the R side and handed off the ball to Bush on a draw up the middle. Could we ever expect JaM to do that? H@!! No! JaM doesn’t have enough fast twitch muscle fibers when he blinks to fool the defense with a play such as that one.

 I am glad we won, many in the media said JaM may have saved his career. I am still shaking my head on that one. In fact, he once again threw off of his back foot on the game winner that Chillens earned by his determination to cross the goal line. That pass has been Jam’s most effective pass route all year…too far apart to have any consistency with the other passes that he must master. Sure he got a game ball. Give Cable credit for trying to build his confidence, but tell me which team JaM could be on that will allow him to thrive? I don’t see it.

Anyway, I am grateful we won, our record is now almost as good as the 49ers..ugghhhhh!

on defense the entire year is Branch, he has been more than I could ever imagine as a force in the secondary. But for those on this site who are always throwing around “this guy is a bust, or that guy is a bust” I would like to single out Huff who has really elevated his game" this year in his 4th year. My last comment is when oh when will Cable finally realize that his best runner is Bush, and Cable has done a terrible disservice to the team by not playing him every game, all game.

of a crap shoot. Because we are Raider fans we tend to remember the busts but we are not the only team that makes a lot of mistakes because for every team it is a crap shoot.
Anybody can measure physical ability, but mental toughness, heart, desire, they cannot be measured. We all know that Al loves speed over everything else, and to a degree he is absolutely right, but sometimes it leads to failure, I think Routt is awful but he is also awfully fast which appeals to Al, same with Fabian Washington who I think is also terrible.
Al gets a lot of criticism because he likes the vertical game, supposedly that is passe’ now and Al has supposedly lost touch with the modern game, the only problem is that SD is winning solely on the vertical game, as is Pittsburgh, the Cardinals and a few other teams. In any event, the Raiders have some really good football players which go largely unnoticed because they have not had a decent QB in 6 years. By the way, has anyone noticed that since Trevor Scott was moved to LB the Raider defense has been quite good. Thank you, thank you, that was what I suggested last Spring. He is a perfect LB, an average DE. Shannessy is going to be an outstanding DE, he is superior against the run, and an excellent pass rusher who will only get better.

if seabass cant hit the back of the end zone than squib 30 time. plus our run D has vastly inproved in the last 3 games, since the T scott transition. 312 yds in the last 3 games, and scratch one big mendenhall 40 yard run and j campbell scramblin, we have finally stepped up on run D. plus with langston bulldozing 20 foot holes, theres no way rob ryan can stop our backs, we all know that to well! cleveland gives up 41pts to det. and 34 to kc. this could not only be our 1st back to back and 3rd straight road win and put us 4-4 on the road this year but we might have ourselves a 40 burger on the day, and quinn might get our dbs a few picks! oakland 42 cleveland 13, go big or get the phuck out!

Its got to be Huff for his de-cleteing of Brandon Marshall. A hit like that makes you go F&%K yeah! that’s Raider football!