What makes you think this guy has that bad of a back injury? You know he’s being looked at by the team doctors right? If his back was seriously hurt he’d be done for the year and would have had surgery already. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Dude you are always so over dramatic :-)
What makes you think this guy has that bad of a back injury? You know he’s being looked at by the team doctors right? If his back was seriously hurt he’d be done for the year and would have had surgery already.
Because it's seriously vague and he was having issues with it last year... [Reply]
The Chiefs had 14 points, minimum, taken off the board by questionable officiating (hold call on Wylie on the 1st drive long TD pass to Hill; questionable PI on Kelce on CEH receiving TD, that ended up being a FG instead; non-PI on blatant interference at goal line that would have led to FG).
And those points changed the complexion of the game entirely. That should have been a 38-24 game at half time, with the Chiefs never trailing.
Mahomes' INT that set up the Raiders' final TD to go up 40-24 literally never would have happened (that was a 4th-down play, they would have just punted still leading 38-33).
Now, maybe the Raiders still go down and score a TD to go up 40-38 (or likely 39 or 41). Considering the Chiefs blitzed down the field to score their actual final TD, I have no doubt they would have scored the points necessary to win they would have had time.
Now, all the revisionist history said, the Raiders deserve credit for winning that game and for playing well in the second half on D, and especially for kicking butt up front against the Chiefs' OL.
But it took a lights-out performance from Oakland AND a favorable game from the zebras AND some severe OL injuries for the Raiders to win.
So color me not yet worried about the Raiders as a true rival or challenger to KC. [Reply]
So are Raider fans still of the belief that Abram is good? It must be nice to use a high pick on a safety that doesn't cover well in the passing era. [Reply]
This is wild: Nearly the entire #Raiders starting defense is going on the COVID-19 list because of high-risk close contacts, but all are eligible to play in the game if they continue to test negatively, sources tell me and @TomPelissero.
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Dude you are always so over dramatic :-)
What makes you think this guy has that bad of a back injury? You know he’s being looked at by the team doctors right? If his back was seriously hurt he’d be done for the year and would have had surgery already.
Back/neck injuries never end up well. They just don't, that's a reality. [Reply]
This is wild: Nearly the entire #Raiders starting defense is going on the COVID-19 list because of high-risk close contacts, but all are eligible to play in the game if they continue to test negatively, sources tell me and @TomPelissero.
This is wild: Nearly the entire #Raiders starting defense is going on the COVID-19 list because of high-risk close contacts, but all are eligible to play in the game if they continue to test negatively, sources tell me and @TomPelissero.
Originally Posted by JakeF:
Raiders Rushing 4 and dropping 7 was the key to the beating us. We must be able to run against a defense that drops 7. Did Schwartz play in the Raiders' game? We can't let Mahomes get harassed by a 4-man rush. The Raiders rarely blitzed us and they still sacked Mahomes 3 times and pressured him a whopping (stat by PFF)22 times.
Schwartz played and got beat a few times by Crosby. He wasn't 100%, it was pretty obvious. Several of us thought by the awkwardness of his drops, he might have an ankle injury.
That being said, they scored 32 points against that defense, including 21 in the first 20 minutes of the game or so.
The Raiders can't play that defense the way other teams have. Yes, they got a lot of pressure but that wasn't ultimately the issue. The issue was that the Raiders broke tendency and threw the ball over the top instead of dinking and dunking.
If the Chiefs defense shows up, this game won't be as contested as the first. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
So are Raider fans still of the belief that Abram is good? It must be nice to use a high pick on a safety that doesn't cover well in the passing era.
Yep.
Not one of them watched him in college or knows anything about him otherwise. Anybody that saw Abram in college knows what he is. He's the same in the NFL. [Reply]
This is wild: Nearly the entire #Raiders starting defense is going on the COVID-19 list because of high-risk close contacts, but all are eligible to play in the game if they continue to test negatively, sources tell me and @TomPelissero.
This is wild: Nearly the entire #Raiders starting defense is going on the COVID-19 list because of high-risk close contacts, but all are eligible to play in the game if they continue to test negatively, sources tell me and @TomPelissero.