Oakland Raiders News: Thanksgiving for Raiders!

by TheRaiderWay on Mar 23, 2009 4:10 PM PDT Comment 32 comments

From PFT.com:

It's Turkey day for our Oakland Raiders!

After an absence of nearly 40 years, the Oakland Raiders will play football on Thanksgiving.

This year, the Raiders will travel to Dallas for the late afternoon game at the new Texas Stadium. The game will be aired on CBS.

I don't know what took so long, but this is going to be a great game and one of the best on the schedule.

Also, the Raiders will be hosting the Chargers in a week one Monday Night Football double header.

NFL.com reports here on the highlights of the 2009 regular season NFL schedule.

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Can we get a link?

The Ultimate Opportunist

by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 23, 2009 3:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Raiders Schedule

Opening MNF is nice, even though we’ve gotten killed the past two years, and Thanksgiving is nice too.

The NFL Commissioner’s Office is also modifying the schedule to allow East Coast teams to only play 1 game on the West Coast against the AFC West. Thus, if a team plays at Oakland they do not need to play at San Diego, or vice versa. Can anyone say East Coast bias? Thankfully the Raiders’ away games aren’t terrible, with the only true coast to coast trip being to play the Giants.

Link

Spreading Brinkleyanity to the Raider Nation

by LiveAdam on Mar 23, 2009 3:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, seriously. That’s a little ridiculous.

The Ultimate Opportunist

by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 23, 2009 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Are You Sure?

that the Broncos game was monday night and not Sunday night from last year.

Just Jamarcus Baby!

by nishal26 on Mar 23, 2009 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Our primetime record

isn’t good either. That game on the NFLN against the Chargers was brutal.

by Raider76 on Mar 26, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

Even Nnamdi got beat once

"We want to Win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it,even my organization deserves it. You have to Win and Win with a vision of the Super Bowl. That's our passion here"- Mr. Davis

by nishal26 on Mar 27, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Man

I was hoping we could start the season with a road game.

Police Fucking Hate Me, Trying To Relocate Me To LA, But Like The Raiders, I' ma Bring It Back To The Bay! - Nump

by Rayder K on Mar 23, 2009 4:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Why

by nishal26 on Mar 23, 2009 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cause Of Last Year.

Police Fucking Hate Me, Trying To Relocate Me To LA, But Like The Raiders, I' ma Bring It Back To The Bay! - Nump

by Rayder K on Mar 23, 2009 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This is a New Season last year dosen't apply

New and young coaching staff that has the respect of our players and if he got us to win two games in a row when nothing mattered imagine how many games we will win when there is something on the line. By the Way you are going to The First game right?

by nishal26 on Mar 23, 2009 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Definetely

And I expect most of the brothers and sisters on this blog to be there also.

Police Fucking Hate Me, Trying To Relocate Me To LA, But Like The Raiders, I' ma Bring It Back To The Bay! - Nump

by Rayder K on Mar 23, 2009 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

DUDE IM GOING TO THAT GAME TO WATCH YOU GET STOMPED

FOUR F'S FIND UM FEEL UM FUGUM FORGET UM.

by sexassassin on Mar 26, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lame

some virgin kid probly. “sexassasin” with some pic of a girl. . . lol.

by oc_raider on Mar 28, 2009 12:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why do we have to start the season

Playing against the chargers dam we lost to them like 12 straight times first test for cable but if we win that game i bet we will win our division and make the playoffs for sure

Just Jamarcus Baby!

by nishal26 on Mar 23, 2009 4:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Don't worry

I think this team will have the best chance of beating that loss streak. No easing into it I guess…

Just HIT somebody.

by SBcitizen on Mar 23, 2009 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This will be a hard game to win

It will also show how Cable has improve this team or how he slacked off when he got the job

Just Jamarcus Baby!

by nishal26 on Mar 23, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cable

Given Al’s history with coaches there is no way Cable can slack off. He won the job and now he has to prove why he did it. I think this off season shows that he is not slacking off as it seems that he is working with Al instead of against him.

I still don’t like Cable but despite that I have a lot of hope in this current team and the relative stability.

Just HIT somebody.

by SBcitizen on Mar 23, 2009 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

dude

im betting on us winning that game. . . chargers are a bunch of limp dicks and they never start the season good. The time has come.

by oc_raider on Mar 28, 2009 12:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I smell another Monday Night blowout

The Chargers’ D is incredible, and their pass attack kills. We can’t forget Sproles either. Our only chance is that the Chargers start out sucking as they have the past two years.

As for thanksgiving, that’ll most likely be another loss. The cowboys are the kings of sacks with DeMarcus Ware. Add in an opportunistic secondary and we have J-Russ hell. Their offense shouldn’t be too bad, but we better pray our run defense has improved. Going up against Barber and Felix Jones scares me. It’ll be close on thanksgiving.

V- "I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."

by KA1Z3R on Mar 23, 2009 5:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Have hope man

don’t throw the season away beacuse of two primetime games

Just Jamarcus Baby!

by nishal26 on Mar 23, 2009 5:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not

in fact the Dallas game is like 50/50 for me. I still say 7-9.

V- "I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."

by KA1Z3R on Mar 23, 2009 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

THATS LAUGHS

Yep, I always knew you were scared. sproles,jones,barber an even l.t. all small guys. They not sh!t.
WIN lose OR TIE RAIDERS TILL I DIE!!!!

by 8fog3town1 on Mar 23, 2009 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Shawn Merriman will be back

and ready to show everyone that he can still play. However I do feel the Raiders have learned their lesson from last years opener. I feel more confident about this game than I did about the Broncos opener last year.

by Raider76 on Mar 26, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not very worried

about Merriman coming back he is a good LB but he was out for the whole year a lot of things change.

by nishal26 on Mar 27, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

hopefully sitting behind the FSN desk

has softened him up a bit. We need to watch him all game or he’ll tear us to pieces.

V- "I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."

by KA1Z3R on Mar 28, 2009 6:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

merriman

possibly over rated at this point. . . we will see. He’s no Seau. I just have the image of him getting knocked over in that game in 07. It would be so great to take the opener and set the tone.

by oc_raider on Mar 28, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is realy cool, thank's for the info RAIDER WAY.

I am very happy we get to watch the RAIDERS play Thanksgiving. I hope they win but if they dont it will still be fun seeing them play Thanksgiving.

by ra8ers fan on Mar 23, 2009 5:53 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I CANT

WAIT FOR THE SEASON !!! Thats cool the raiders are playing on thanksgiving, this means i wont pass out during the dallas game or detroit game after my turkey eating. We have a good chance of winning the game and ruining the day for those cowboys.

by oc_raider on Mar 23, 2009 6:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We will probably

Win against Dallas since they don’t have T.O. anymore and so we only have to worry about Roy Williams and Patrick Crayton which Nnamdi and CJ will take care of real fine. And as for Jason Witten our LB’s and S’s will do fine covering him.

As for the game against SD, I think it will be a close game only if the Raiders really play their hearts out, but if the Raiders come soft they will most likely get blown out. But they do have a chance, I believe in my Raiders.

by L.A. Raiders on Mar 23, 2009 7:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree

Dallas is loseing it’s steam by missing the playoffs last year so they shouldn’t be a problem but as for San Diego it just has been TOO long since we kicked there ass, that win will be very nice to start off the season. In fact the last time we started a season with a with a win was the 2002 season ahh..memories. Time to relive those memories now!

Just Jamarcus Baby!

by nishal26 on Mar 23, 2009 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

GET READY COWGIRLS.

Yep, thats right we coming. I’m gonna luv seeing all them BLACK HOLES in the stadium.
WIN lose OR TIE RAIDERS TILL I DIE!!!!

by 8fog3town1 on Mar 23, 2009 10:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Raiders Will Win 1st Game Against Chargers

Chargers Start Slow And Cable Is Ganna Throw Alot Of tricks At Them…Russell. he is getting better..and for the cowboys..i am going to that game..and last time we played cowboys (5 years ago) we beat them……we we sucked then too…..i think…we are ganna beat them…not by much..but we will!
Gio Rahhhders

by stevenritter on Mar 27, 2009 12:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs