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.
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Because it's seriously vague and he was having issues with it last year...
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you sir are being dramatic......

calm down.....:-)
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I keep coming back to this:

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.
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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.
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lol

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.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 18, 2020

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Back/neck injuries never end up well. They just don't, that's a reality.
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Welp looks like we’re in reschedule territory. If the Raiders have more players potentially out then the game won’t be near as interesting.

I wonder if Andy and Clark would want to reschedule due to less time to confirm if their players are 100% confirmed negative.
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Really looking forward to this game now. Start at 1:20am so going to a late night for but fuck it if we win will all be worth it!
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:-)
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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.
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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.
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Fakers just want this game moved out of prime time so there won't be as many viewers.
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Great, a nice fat excuse for the ass whooping they are going to receive either way...
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