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The bye week couldn't have come at a better time for this team. Right in the middle of the season where the players and coaches can look back at the first half and try to fix the problems and improve upon the things that worked.
I know what you're thinking, "there were things ...
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Now that the bye week is over, it is time to look ahead to the second half of the season. The first half was a case study in disappointmen t for the team and its fans. The offense has been horrible. The defense has been wildly inconsistent. The team is 2-6.
Over the bye week, the Raiders ...
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Tom Cable
Robert Gallery
With the injuries that have occurred through the first part of this season, there were a few players that the Raiders had to sign to either fill in for them or add depth at certain positions. This also meant that there were other players that had to be dropped to make room. So now, with the ...
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Justin Miller
Tom Cable
Itis the bye week. For most teams, that makes it slow news week. This isn't an ordinary average team, it is the Oakland Raiders. For the second consecutive year, the bye week finds questions flying around the coaching situation. Last year, that was the week Lane Kiffin was fired. This week, it ...
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Lane Kiffin
Tom Cable
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As the Raiders season swirls the drain down towards another lost season and likely double digit losses, the sharks are encircling Tom Cable and smelling blood. Not long after the Napa County district attorney decided against charges stemming from the alleged ...
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Randy Hanson
ESPN
After a rocky first half of the season that saw many important Raider starters and role players go down with injury , the Raiders are finally set to be at nearly full strength.
The bye week comes at a great time for this struggling team. Several key players will return to the team and others ...
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Tom Cable
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With the Raiders getting the bye week at week nine, it gives them a halftime for the season. Tom Cable is planning on using the week off to do "self scouting" and add some things to the offense. That makes this a good time to look back at the first half of the season to see what ...
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Tom Cable
Richard Seymour
The Raiders played the Chargers tough again but again, they couldn't pull it out in the end . In the week one loss, it was the defense that played great all game only to not be able to stop the Chargers offense from scoring on their final drive. In this game, the Raiders offense actually ...
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San Diego Chargers
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The San Diego Chargers (4-3) got on top quickly and held off the Oakland Raiders (2-6) to extend their win streak to 13 games over their AFC West rival with a 24-16 victory. The streak is the longest active NFL streak of dominance by one team over another and it's the sixth ...
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San Diego Chargers
LaDainian Tomlinson
JaMarcus Russell
Antonio Cromartie
The Oakland Raiders offense turned in yet another performance that bordered on ineptitude. They were held under 200 total yards for the fifth time in eight games. The Raiders defense had some big stops, but in other drives they were able to gash the Raiders primarily through the air for big ...
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San Diego Chargers
LaDainian Tomlinson
Life away from the Raiders has not been too kind to Rob Ryan. His current Browns' team is 1-6 on the season and his defense is giving up over 25 points a game. It is being reported that Browns fans are planning an organized protest. A move that Ryan is asking fans not to follow through on . But ...
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Rob Ryan
Fargas and the rest of the runners need safeties out of the box.
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The Oakland Raiders are ranked 32nd in the NFL in passing yards per game with an average of 128.0 per contest. So it's no wonder that they've also struggled on the ground. Going into their contest with the Chargers, ...
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San Diego Chargers
New York Giants
Antonio Pierce
Tom Cable
Sure the Raiders and 49ers are cross bay rivals. There is a long list of players that have jumped from one team to the other. And their travel arrangements consisted of a short drive over the bay bridge. Hell, the two stadiums are so close that you can practically swim from one to the other as ...
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San Francisco 49ers
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In 2008 the Raiders return teams proved to be the spark plug that fired the Raiders late season success. During the last seven games, the Raiders returned three punts and two kickoffs for touchdowns. So far this season, the ...
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Johnnie Lee Higgins
So the Raider rollercoaster reaches the bottom again. It has been up and down all season. Going from one end of the spectrum to the other from week to week. The Raiders are the NFL equivelant of bipolar disorder. One week they are on the crest and the next week they are in the trough.
It's ...
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Richard Seymour
Mark Davis has been more visible of late (TFDS photo/ Patrick A. Patterson)
After selling out their home opener against the San Diego Chargers, the Raiders attendance has dropped off dramatically. In their third game, as they were coming off their first win and facing their division rival ...
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San Diego Chargers
Denver Broncos
Philadelphia Eagles
In the week leading up to the season opener, Richard Seymour said he was "blindsided," by the trade from New England to Oakland. Last Sunday, being "blindsided" would have been better than what actually happened. In this game the Raiders knew exactly what was coming and were powerless to stop ...
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San Diego Chargers
Richard Seymour
New England Patriots
Khalif Barnes
Oh that was painful. As painful as it was to watch the game two weeks ago against the Giants, this one may have been even more painful. The Giants took advantage of three early turnovers to go up 21-0 and then ran the ball the rest of the game to great success. The most depressing thing was ...
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New York Giants
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the New York Jets. On the Raiders first play
JaMarcus Russell fumbled the ball inside his own ten and the Jets took over at the four. The game was all downhill from there as the Raiders suffered ...
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We're back again, this time we'll see the New York Jets in their throwback uni's. Just to be clear, this is not a play-by-play, but instead it's more my analysis and observations of the game.
I'll be updating you on some of the things that you couldn't get from a normal play-by-play in ...
