Comcast Red Zone Oakland Raider Wrap-Up, Week 12:

by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Dec 3, 2009 3:32 PM PST

In the NFL you'd think of Reaching the Red Zone and Red Zone Performance as a pretty common indicator for how well your offense is performing.

There are many ways to reach the Red Zone.

An offensive, defensive or special teams player could be breaking away only to be caught at the 5, or the team could be on a 79 yard drive before they reach the Red Zone, either way, they are there

There is also no arguing that the teams who get there the most and have high conversion rate are the best teams in the League.

Let's take a look at the teams with the most red Zone Possessions per game.

In Order: The Top 10 Teams in Red Zone Possessions Are:

1) New Orleans (4.8)

2) New England (4.4)

3) Minnesota (4.4)

4) San Diego (4.1)

5) NY Giants (3.8)

6) Indy (3.6)

7) Atlanta (3.5)

8) Houston (3.5)

9) Arizona (3.5)

10) Cincy (3.4)

Off the top of my head and if I had to guess, I would say that these are probably the Top 10 Offenses in the NFL.

So, with that in mind let's look at Red Zone Performance for Oakland.

The team is still trying to score. It is like my Sophomore Year of High School. And also like my Sophomore Year, scoring is rare!

I am actually A-Mazed that a team which has reached the Red Zone, the least amount of times in the NFL (1.5 times a game), has 3 Victories, especially considering that they beat the Bengals and the Eagles.

Interestingly enough, the Raiders have converted 60% of the Red Zone Possessions in the past 3 games, compared to an average of 43% for the Season.

They also reached the Red Zone twice and scored once. Let us hope that it is a portend of things to come.

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60% Redzone conversion average since Bruce stepped in

Give Grad 3/4 of a second more time to throw and he’ll match that redzone stat with, at least, a 60% completion average.

Son-of-Blanda

by Sons-of-Blanda on Dec 3, 2009 3:58 PM PST reply actions

I like Bruce's chances a lot better too

I’m just not sold he’ll ever get that 3/4 of a second he’ll need! Any news on Langston’s big ass trying to compete for a job at all? It’s hard to imagine him being worse than Green, Pears, or Khalif.

by brhynno on Dec 3, 2009 9:00 PM PST reply actions

3 out of 4 from western colleges- humiliating

what is it with tackles – both sides of the line – are so bad? I look at the coaches faces on the Raider’s website and see men who could not inspire frogs to jump. This is gibberish, I know that, but how can we assemble excellent CBs, DEs, and RBs and yet blunder so much on OTs and DTs.?

Son-of-Blanda

by Sons-of-Blanda on Dec 3, 2009 11:39 PM PST reply actions

values

According to Madden, our GM, Al Davis doesn’t value the line as much as DBs.
So looking at the draft, we have higher draft picks on the left side, hence, better (not great) play on that side. I would be surprised if we didn’t go after a tackle or guard on offense and tackles on defense in the next draft. Really surprised.
We can’t stop big nose tackles so we may even go for a center, but since the o-line can double team a good right guard might do the trick. We can draft a college tackle and move them to guard like Gallery. Either way, we are going to have to go through the draft just like everyone else.

by Sbay on Dec 4, 2009 1:19 AM PST up reply actions