Are penalties a key reason for Raider losses?

Holding calls and false start calls did not seem to hurt us as bad. However, if there were any flags that hurt us, they were PASS INTERFERENCE. Adding 15+ yards on any opponents drive hurt us in many games especially the Colts game.

Bottom line is, we can’t give up the deep bomb, but we can’t have 2-3 PI calls that advance the ball into the red zone PER GAME.

We still had a lot of drive killing penalties by the offensive line and a few times we were still able to put a decent drive together although we still did not get a score out of those drives. The Raiders have been burned by the officials for many years even with other teams we play against get away with them even in front of the refs/umps. Even on defense we get killed with our players being held with no calls made.

The ones that have hurt us the most are the dumb ones.false start,holding,illegal formation and my favorit delay of game.can somebody tell me why an NFL team cant get the play called,get to the line and snap the ball in 45 seconds?
The reason the Raiders win the games that the get penalized a lot in is because those penalties are usualy for aggressive play,unnecceary roughness,late hits and such.when they get those kinds of penalties on them they are not only beating the other team physically,but mentally.that WR knows the next time he tries to make a catch in the middle of the field he is going to experience extreme pain.so as long as the yellow hankies keep flying the Raiders keep wining.but please no more delay of game or phantom PI’s/illegal contact calls.

Nice job doing the research. IMO I think we brought the worst out of our opponents in some of the games through retaliation. We smashed quite a few teams physically as someone else elaborated to in a previous post on how following a game against us the performance of said team seemed to be down due to players being out for injury reasons or the were maybe banged up after playing us. I have no problem with penalties it is the shitty procedural ones that eat me alive like delay of game, off side, false fucking start, illegal motion shit holding (when a guy is being lazy rather than saving our QB). I think we could work on those as for PF, face mask, etc I like those it makes them think about us more after. I will take the late hit penalty early in the game on Tom “Sporting my Justin Beiber hair cut” Brady just to let him know we mean business and maybe that will keep him on his toes and rush him a bit. I like the teams of old where we didn’t take shit and laid them out but the procedural penalties we can always work on. Those ones killed more than a few of our O drives and sustained the oppositions drives some games (Ariz, SF I think and a few more).

Means cutting out at least 2 false start penalties a game, and possibly even a holding call as well.

something that the team preached was controlled chaos and not so much incompetence. last season’s team was a very emotional team. hopefully we can bring the same intensity this season.

The NFL doesn’t think highly enough of the Raiders’ head coaches mostly due to Al’s already low opinion of them they will call whatever they want without justification. Also I’ll take the PI calls as they come with physical man to man. At least the DB didn’t get beat for a long TD and was involved in the play. The only ones that bug me are the obviously bad calls which were limited IMO last year. The most blatant I can think of was the illegal motion that never happened that called back a Zach Miller TD which would have given us 45+ points instead of a Jason Campbell drive-killing interception the following play against the Broncos.

I think that penalties certainly hurt a team, but I dont think that its something that teams generally cant overcome. They’re are definitely not as bad as losing the turnover battle or simply having less talented players.

I would also attribute some of our penalty issues to our defensive scheme. Playing that much man coverage, it’s inevitable that the raiders will get called for more PIs and defensive holdings than most teams. Nature of the scheme.

Finally, you have to look at the fact that the raiders have a reputation for drawing penalties. Refs are just going to be looking harder for infractions.