One Victory Down 22 More To Go

Bears game will tell me more, if these two keep sucking, it means it’s not the rust, but it’s just that they suck. If possible Veldheer should start at C, I liked how he looked smooth there (but vs. second stringers). Campbell looked good, overall he is stronger than Cooper whom looked shakey.
Starting average/decent O-line should be this:
Henderson, Gallery, Veldheer, Campbell, Walker
The starting O-line of today looked average/below average, with Satele and Coop starting.
just to throw dirt, Satele was thrown to the ground like a girl and he enabled the one and only sack of Campbell, as Cooper on that same play lost his man also which would’ve been a sack.
Defense = Awesome.
DHB no cathes = question mark still.
Hope to see better WR play when Chaz back as well as J Ford for Bears game. D-mac too.

Someone no one talks about constantly had pressure up the middle, John Henderson. McClain and Scott looked great and I think our run defense as a whole is good.

Bruce Campbell and Jared V did well, there better than Cooper and Barnes IMO

JC was accurate and solid, he said after the game they barely went into the playbook this game, kept it simple so no worries. I wanna see DHB and Chaz though.

Bennett vs Cartwright will be intense

Nick Miller is still the ish

Our O line needs help at center. If that is Jared wonderful. Iono if he is though, maybe start a massive Oline with Langston, Gallery, Jared, Bruce, and Mario.

Thomas Howard also was solid but quiet, everyone on defense I like. They were spectacular

No Brennan?

Overall I feel great tonight after this

The way I look at it. We get our first W in Dallas. And We’ll get our last W in Dallas. Yeah, baby!

Passing: Eh. Not great. I’m glad Jason found Zach as much as he did. That’s a plus. It looks like our WR’s need to work on the routs a bit better. Didn’t really get to see much seeing it was for only 1 quarter and the 1st game, but, it was much better than last year.

Rushing: Bush had a few decents runs. Still looks winded after a few runs though. Probably just rusty though. Michael Bennet his beast mode today. But like RRS said, it was against the backups of the backups of the backups. I’m still pulling for Rock. Who looked huge by the way! My dad compared him to a tank.

Blocking: Very dismal. Satele got destroyed. Too many penalties. But once again, I’m going to place this blame on it being the 1st game. I liked what I saw from Veldheer as well. As for Campbell, still undecided.

Defense: Wow. Man, our D was fucking terrific. And to everyone who said 11 sacks was ridiculous for LaMarr…Suck it!! How does 2 in one quarter against one of the better O-lines sound, huh? Shaughnessy was a beast. And I give my sincerest apology to him when I said he should be traded. My bad. Haha.

Not sure on how McClain did. I saw he got beat by Witten for 13 yds on the 2nd play. Had to see that one coming. It sucks when we have a LB with pass coverage issues and a S who also needs help on that. I hope that gets better. Trevor Scott is an animal and certainly showed why he can get 10+ sacks.

Tommy Kelly and Richard Seymour actually did quite well. I would’ve liked to see a lil’ more pressure, but it was decent. Kelly didn’t suck. So that’s a plus. I didn’t see John much. But, I’m sure his presense was felt. Dez Bryant got noticably bigger! I like it!

Mike Mitchell actually had a good game. I’m glad. Although it looked like he was shooting for the leg wraps ups more than a hard hit. Nothing wrong with that. Just sayin’… Nnamdi is still a complete and utter badass. CJ showed he’ll always be a good # 2. Nothing more. Walter McFadden actually disapointed me today..But, Boyd and Ware sure showed alot. Routt, well, he was average. Got juked by Barber. And the one play to where his guy didn’t catch the ball, was cause of a bad pass. Aka, he’s still shit.

Swayze Walters didn’t live up to his badass name at all. Cut him. Lechler still has the leg of a greek god. Jano saves the saves the day as always. And besides the one big punt return, I liked our special teams tackling..

One more thing, Dallas’ kicker is a douche. Don’t you think you’d like to see if your Special Teams can even tackle? Or is he convinced he can kick it out on literally every play. I bet he does that in pracitice too. Oh, and why the hell was he wearing gloves? Was it cold in a closed stadium in Dallas, Texas during August? I just don’t like him.

 JC was able to actually complete some passes——against a VERY stout defense. All in all, the 1st team offense looked pretty sharp IMO, it can only get better when we get our broken players back.
 The 1st team defense looks to me like it will dominate the AFC West, Ol’ Rivers is in for a treat.

I really liked our defense, our OL wasn’t up to par though, we need to have a stronger showing next time.

Is terrible. He gave up plays right off the bat! He needs to go .. But I’m not quite comfortable with who we have behind him. Routt is horrible as well. They’re the two biggest issues at defense. Other than that .. I really liked what I saw in the defense ..

The main thing I wanted to see was how our 1st team defense played against them since they have 1 of the best offenses in the league. Our team held their own. There are some things that stood out.
Henderson and Walker aren’t the long-term answers at either tackle position. When the D blitzed they loaded up on Mario’s side and Jason had to hurry his throws. Also Walker had trouble with faster LBs and I don’t think that will change when the regular season starts. The interior line didn’t really blow them of the line and open up alot of big holes to run through however when you’re running against a D-line with Jay Ratliff and Igor Olshansky that is understandable. Also it seemed as if they weren’t sure if they were running zone or power blocking plays in certain points of the 1st half. I will give them the benefit of the doubt since it is the 1st preseason game.
As for the D-line they really held up well. I don’t think the pressure was as great as I had hoped and am hoping they are just saving alot of the zone-blitz and stunts for the regular season to not show too much to the competition. Even though Lamar Houston got a couple of sacks because of his bull-rushing tenacity, both can also be attributed to good coverage and Romo held the ball too long. The most pressure came when Trevor Scott came around the corner and stripped the ball against the 1st team O-line. The run defense which I was really checking was very solid and McClain held his own even though his name wasn’t called often. I was particularly impressed on a reverse to Miles Austin that Huff and the rest of the backers smelled and held to only 3 yards when in the past Morrison and company would easily allow about 10 more yards at least.
The receivers overall for Oakland for the most part did not play very well and alot can be attributed to the O-line not giving Jason ample time to read the coverages. Heyward Bey was a non-factor and Louis Murphy played adequate and thought it was not at all his fault got hung out to dry by Jason on one play. I did like the screen plays as all got some decent yardage and am hoping the running backs are featured much more in this area when the regular season starts.
The defensive backs were ok. I think the coaching philosophy is what needs to be fixed however. Romo looked Austin’s way about 3 times and 2 were completions for 33 yards against Johnson. Johnson made a good play later on the ball against the 2nd team receivers later though. Routt was well Routt getting juked out of a play by Marion Barber on a run so time will tell if he is the same old dime back playing nickle. Nnamdi made a good play on the ball and Roy Williams saved a possible pick-6. The starting safeties didn’t do much as Witten got open in front of Tyvon rather seemlessly. They did play well in run support though as no big gains on run or screens were made.
The QBs looked ok and was particularly more impressed with Jason than Kyle who seemed to play alot longer than anyone wanted. Jason made a couple of bad throws to Murphy but you may say pressure had alot to do with that. He at least looks like a starting NFL stepping up in the pocket and feeling the rush.
The coaching staff once again frustrated me with the way they continue to use Nnamdi by keeping on one side of the field no matter who is in front of him. Johnson can be a good #2 corner but if they repeatedly play man to man and allow him to match up against the other team’s #1 receiver this D will continue to give up big plays. I think Nnamdi needs to be used much like Deion in the past where he would follow the other team’s best receiver and check him no matter where he is. This would include if they are lined up in the slot as it can open up alot of possibilities for him to come of the edge and blitz as well. Overall last night I gave it a C- even though many may disagree however I am much more impressed with this year’s 1st team D against Dallas than last year’s which was pretty much soft against the Dallas 1st team and allowed an easy TD from Romo to Witten after the O-line allowed him all the time in the world to find his man. If you have read this the whole way through I am impressed whether or not you agree with my assessment.

If you want to watch the raiders play and it’s not on in your hood. Simple go to atdhe.net.
Once you go to the site, go to sports, there will be listing of all preseason game played that day. when it’s time for the game press the link, but not before game time. Streams pretty good with no downloads or other bullshit.

No more excuses for not watching the game.

P.S. you all can thank me later. been watching preseason game on this site for the last 3 years.

TO would have been a great addition as I mentioned before, however, WR is a position we should look at improving…The Raiders are a better team, the Defensive play shows that, look for the Raiders to improve on Offense as every game continues. I am in California on a contract and I will be at every Raider game until I leave. I am really excited about that…lol Go Raiders!!!!

Sebastian is worth every nickel we’re paying him – he is just brilliant, a player whose SO essentially Raider – excellent, poised, confident, unique, natural. With our defense and Janikowski we’ll win games this season just like Al like – by narrow margins.