Raiders v. Niners
I am extremely impressed with the coaching. We've come out twice looking and playing like a well coached team. Cable has done a tremendous job with the OL. Everybody with the exception of Grove is playing really well. Even Gallery who i was about to give up on had his moments. #74 is playing solid RT and when Newberry replaces Grove i think the line will play really well and continue to get better as they gain more experience together and with coach Cable/Kiffins system.
Despite getting off to a horrific start plauged with poor field positioning, drops, bad snaps, INT, and a fumbled handoff the Raiders maintained their composure and with imaginative playcalling ran 3 impressive, long drives of 70+ yards.
Walter didn't play that bad despite his poor star and that horrible pass for the INT. His receivers didn't help him any with 2 drops, but when he got settled in he led us on a long drive. I think he is playing well enough to make the team even though he is still inconsistent. I still think he has potential.
When Culpepper took the field against AZ last week, i was surprised when people cheered him the loudest. After 2 games i have to say that i'm cheering too. I think Culpepper has a chance at not only being the starting QB, but having a bigtime comeback season. His bullet for a TD on the rollout was money. He could turn out to be a steal. I hope he starts next week.
I'd give Burgess, Sapp and Morrison some lawn chairs till it's time to go Lion hunting, cause they at midseason form...
I think Taylor and Whitted days are numbered. They are both dropping too many passes and we have too much competition at WR. I'm almost glad that Whitted dropped that game winnning pass in the endzone, since it will not help him make the team.
The tight ends still need to work on their blocking. If you review the tape you will that both starters missed several blocks, but they both made and great catches and will be exciting to watch.
Lamont Jordan stepped it up. Even without that big 30+ yard gain he averaged around 5 yards a carry. We have a strong set of backs with Jordan, Rhodes, & "Joe." I expect big things from our running game this year.
I'm pumped up for the season. I think we are farther along than anyone expects us to be. Even though we didn't win at the end, if you watch other team's preseason games you will see sloppy play, wasted time outs, missed tackles and bad football. While we made our mistakes, we put together 3 long drives, the OL played well and no serious injuries. We are on the right track to returning to greatness!!!
Despite getting off to a horrific start plauged with poor field positioning, drops, bad snaps, INT, and a fumbled handoff the Raiders maintained their composure and with imaginative playcalling ran 3 impressive, long drives of 70+ yards.
Walter didn't play that bad despite his poor star and that horrible pass for the INT. His receivers didn't help him any with 2 drops, but when he got settled in he led us on a long drive. I think he is playing well enough to make the team even though he is still inconsistent. I still think he has potential.
When Culpepper took the field against AZ last week, i was surprised when people cheered him the loudest. After 2 games i have to say that i'm cheering too. I think Culpepper has a chance at not only being the starting QB, but having a bigtime comeback season. His bullet for a TD on the rollout was money. He could turn out to be a steal. I hope he starts next week.
I'd give Burgess, Sapp and Morrison some lawn chairs till it's time to go Lion hunting, cause they at midseason form...
I think Taylor and Whitted days are numbered. They are both dropping too many passes and we have too much competition at WR. I'm almost glad that Whitted dropped that game winnning pass in the endzone, since it will not help him make the team.
The tight ends still need to work on their blocking. If you review the tape you will that both starters missed several blocks, but they both made and great catches and will be exciting to watch.
Lamont Jordan stepped it up. Even without that big 30+ yard gain he averaged around 5 yards a carry. We have a strong set of backs with Jordan, Rhodes, & "Joe." I expect big things from our running game this year.
I'm pumped up for the season. I think we are farther along than anyone expects us to be. Even though we didn't win at the end, if you watch other team's preseason games you will see sloppy play, wasted time outs, missed tackles and bad football. While we made our mistakes, we put together 3 long drives, the OL played well and no serious injuries. We are on the right track to returning to greatness!!!
posted by Raider Raza at Monday, August 20, 2007
1 Comments:
I need to break this down in a way your misconceptions may
forever be broken. We'll cover some ground. So you need
to stay with me.
I am a season's ticket holder from the 2000 season. It was
a time of great rivalry and despise for the Broncos,
Chargers, and Winers. Rumor had it we might pick up
Charlie Garner. I watched with satisfaction the commitment
to excellence of a pre-concussion MVP Gannon with
noticeable contributions of the likes of Tim Brown, Tyrone
Wheatley, Zack Crocket on one side of the ball and Dorsett,
Woodson, and Eric Allen on the other - superior lines on
both. I have witnessed glory. Moreover, I have enjoyed
the comradely of like minded aficionados of the greatest
pastime known since the invention of the wheel and the
subsequent 800,000 years or so since that man hasfound new
ways to use this wheel to greater conquest and
warmongering, football that is. And I have consumed
massive quantities of beer. Good beer with good friends
with good football.
Now you need to understand why this is a good thing.
You see, the greatest superpower, militarily at least if
not so much compassionately nor artistically, and certainly
not creatively and most assuredly not intellectually and
certainly not aesthetically, but sure as hell
kick-yo-assedly, the United States of America, represents a
commitment to martyrdom, and football represents this
martyrdom in a way that few people actually die yet the
spirit and understanding of domination is retained.
Football takes us back to our pre-colionalist African and
South American roots when men, rather than crack each other
in the jaw in order to impress some flavor honey to hit
skins, would dance and perform in order to impress some
flavor honey to hit skins. It is most noticeably man's
greatest achievement: peace. But over time these memories
have become even more distant and unknown and unfortunately
lost and buried to the many - reverting them back but
thankfully not paleontologically way way back to our
really, really, primitive roots where we'd crack a whooly
mammoth in the jaw in order to impress some flavor lion
honey in order to hit lion skins (When what animal you were
probably didn't matter so much as how much meat you ate and
how big you got. But that's far more way back than
necessary for the discussion at hand), but nonetheless back
enough where as before, we were once again, tripping.
Oh there have been attempts to evolve man forward. Indeed,
as recently as in 1984 some say there was a house party
where two men rather than fight in a drunken stupor, for
reasons still not understsood, these men elected to blash
verbal wit via freestyle raps over ill cut beats in order
to impress some flavor honey in order to hit skins, but the
C.I.A. caught word of it and quickly bombed the whole
neighborhood this was reportedly taking place and then told
the media what to say about it in order to make sure nobody
spread any silly ideas about peaceful communication or
actually solving problems - rather than incessantly
creating them and then fixing half of it in order to get
credit for solving what they created to begin with.
So throughout history, dear reader, the ability to settle
differences through methods other than violence is
manifested rarer and less effectively. And the sad part
about it all is most of these guys aren't even hitting
skins. Look at Cheney & Rumsfield. They can't possibly be
getting any. These no skins having hegemonists epitomize
exactly what I'm talking about. Thankfully, not forever
would be this senseless violence. Thankfully, one day
would be the rather sensible violence of American Football.
Al Davis realized immediately the new prospects for world
peace and began organizing the youth and elders of this
movement into what has become the National Football League.
An organization, who despite the best efforts of its host
government, embraces and encourages the traits competitive
sports manifest. And aside from a dog here or there not
too many deaths have resulted. And now, after years of
building the organization, there are 31 teams in the
National Football League who encapsulate these vary traits,
with the persistently fuel of America's youth consistently
and forever guaranteeing, that unlike oil, our dependence
on this sport will not be met with disappointments but
rather with exceeded expectations, and these youth are
happy to do so, but the happiest youth are those that not
merely act out the epic drama of land and space warfare,
but get honor of working for Al Davis, by donning the
uniform and playing each game, hoping one day, to deserve
the honor which has been bestown upon them and for any, for
the glory of God. Remember, when a hero dies he looks up
at heaven and his last thought is hoping he is worthy to
enter the kingdom, whatever form our religious speculations
imagine them to be. And rarely, Whomever It Are, grants
this heaven to great heroes. It is worthy to note that
over 50% of heroes who happen to gain entrance to heaven
are Raider fans. It is perhaps also worthy to note that
most of them actually snuck through the back door left
cracked by other Raider fans already there. Fans of the
Broncos, Chargers, and Winers, however, are usually sent
straight to hell in the afterlife. It talks about it in
the Koran and there is a brief reference in the Hindu
scriptures - something about God saying She didn't want any
busters on Her squad or something. All Buhdists are Raider
fans. Just ask one. You'll see.
So now you perhaps grasp I have always been a raider. I
sensed a glorious season was upon us, but I needed to see
evidence manifest. Thus I was rather precisely looking
forward to last weekends matchup with the tweetie birds
once I heard it would be available in my viewing area (I am
currently orbiting Earth setting up a private missile
system for anonymous client who's a little nervous about
this whole Russia claiming that North Pole thing - most of
the satelites are pointed away from me which really sucks
because I have not been able to watch Bloomberg); I needed
to know through observation would Lane deliver; we all now
know he's indeed about to open the playbook, and though a
loss, the battle of the bay most recently proved further
the depth of analysis lane's divine inspiration is capable
of, however, I didn't get to see that one due to my
circumstances mentioned above. But regarding what I've
seen or read thus far. In a phrase, we have full
potential. I look forward to beholding this potential
metamorphisize into smashmouth kinetic energy intensive
football as the equation p=m*v is thoroughly demonstrated
for the benefit of upcoming American children who, despite
the best efforts of the U.S. miseducation system,
appreciate the beauty power of physics, science in general,
and art in particular, want to learn, and want to do
something besides cracking somebody in the jaw to....~Ant Bless
Post a Comment
<< Home