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Sprint Game Ball Of The Week: There is NO Game Ball This Week


Every week we are supposed to award a team ball to a Raider Player and I have tried three different times to name one for this week and I have stopped each time with the same resolution. When you lose to the team with the worst record in football and you look like as ill prepared as the Oakland Raiders did last Sunday then, nobody deserves a game ball.

Sure, I could have picked Sebastian Janikowski, who kicked three field goals, none of which even looked close to missing, or Trevor Scott who looks to be thriving in the Elephant role or Matt Shaughnessy who had a good game on the right edge, but the ball wouldn't mean anything to anyone of them. There can be no personal sense of achievement when the team fails as miserably as they did against San Francisco.

Along with the rest of Raider Nation, I do hope to award a game ball after this week's game against Denver. Maybe it will be awarded to Kyle Boller? Hopefully it will go to a healthy-enough Darren McFadden or an inspired Tyvon Branch or Michael Huff.

Let's Go Raiders!!! Crush the Donkeys!!!

Poll
Who Deserves A Game Ball After The Forty Niner game?
Trevor Scott
19 votes
Sebastian Janikowski
105 votes
Matt Shaughnessy
72 votes
Nobody
333 votes

529 votes | Poll has closed

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I thought T-Scott was good

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

by Ozraider on Oct 22, 2010 3:36 PM PDT reply actions  

It's Your Ball To Award BUT...

Anytime a young/rookie player lays it on the line the way “ShawNasty” has done he deserves his props regardless of what his team as a whole did that day…We have guys who step up each and every week…They continue to give it their all despite that losing record…So as an old athlete I’m more than willing to give it up for the man who pushes even though his team struggles…

by PantyRaider on Oct 22, 2010 4:19 PM PDT reply actions  

Seabass

did put up all 9 points. At least someone was productive.

Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!

by mikesd1981 on Oct 22, 2010 4:44 PM PDT reply actions  

Shaughnessy kicked ass. Goes to him.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

by JaKe. on Oct 22, 2010 5:22 PM PDT reply actions  

Shaughnessy for sure !!!

Shaughnessy understands the problem !!! Bring pressure, and good things happen for this defense !!! He’s always bringing it. S-O-B ?? Kelly ? Maybe a quarter of a ball !!!! Big waste of space, everytime a big run is made, he’s the first to be taken out !!! No Impact !!!!

by papabegood on Oct 22, 2010 5:36 PM PDT reply actions  

You keep saying that, but I’m watching him make plays. He was involved in numerous plays behind the line, and even had a sack.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

by JaKe. on Oct 22, 2010 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions  

Kelly is frustrating because he does play well but never consistently. Up at Mile High he's gonna

be sucking for air early and without Big John coming in to spell him it’s only a matter of time before Denver zero’s in on him and their running game suddenly begins looking decent.

S-O-B: ITS HOW I ROLL, DEAL WITH IT.

by Sons-of-Blanda on Oct 22, 2010 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions  

Perhaps this teams, especially the offense, should grow a pair...

and win two fucking games in a row. We knew the O line would struggle. We knew Jason would have trouble recognizing alignments, pre=snap reads, progressions, and avoiding sacks. We knew the blocking was pitiful and that calls that recognized that must be utilizied to neutralize pass rushed and exploit the over pursuits.

We have seen almost none of this, had some lucky wins, and this team looks far too familiar to the one last year that couldn’t even move the chains. Will we break the all-time Raider record of !0 yards passing?

Don’t get me started. Get some offensive fucking line help already, and how about some calls to exploit everyone taking advantage of the O lineman we have that don’t realize protecting the qb is the most important part of their jobs.

"If your only ambition in life, is to be a better person; well, that's just the best ambition you can have..." Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew

by brhynno on Oct 22, 2010 9:16 PM PDT reply actions  

Went to donkey blog for injuries info. Looks like Eddie Royal won't play.

So we should see Gaffe and D. Thomas and Brandon Lloyd. Those are playmakers though but one less is good news.

The RaiderLaker

by JaggerJaw on Oct 22, 2010 9:48 PM PDT reply actions  

The Raiders execution is troubling, I believe it is time to really look at a QB for the future...

As I mentioned, Grad is injury prone, I mentioned that before the season, I didn’t know J-Campbell was that far behind, this guy plays soft, and doesn’t seem to read his progressions. At this point, I wouldn’t keep him after this season, he has been in the league too long to play this way. Point Blank. Our O line is a wreck, and both Langston Walker and Mario Henderson, I mean, these guys are soft, marshmillows, no fight, no heart, it’s crazy. We picked up a lot of good players this draft and off season, now we need to add a real QB, at least one WR that can really catch and make plays, and don’t even start with Murphy, and that bum DHB…TO would have made a world of difference…Mike Vick, would have made a world of difference, I said it when those players were available we should have picked them up. I would start Barnes and Campbell at tackle, I mean the starters aren’t blocking any way…At this point, I would start playing those guys at tackle even if they don’t start. If we score points we and pin our ears back and get after them…Well, that is my spill for now, I support my Raiders, Go Raiders…

by Rodney Sacramento on Oct 22, 2010 10:08 PM PDT reply actions  

we don't know that TO and Vick

would have been great here. And we dont know that TO wouldn’t have caused locker room controversies.

What we do now, or should do, is allow the coaches to do their job and call the plays that we should. Like blitzes. It’s well known that Davis doesn’t like the Blitz. So we don’t blitz. It’s been said by other Defense Coordianators that were here there is a system here and you go by the system that’s here. If the coaches are allowed to do their job, maybe some of the problems can go away. Obviously not all of them will, but if coaches are then allowed to continue doing their jobs, maybe we can fix some of the problems in the draft that need to be fixed.

Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!

by mikesd1981 on Oct 23, 2010 4:32 AM PDT up reply actions  

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