Majority are pretty boring, and they don’t matter compared to the regular season schedule.
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Everyone knows that the NFL preseason does not count in anyway, shape or form in the overall standings, but don’t tell that to the Oakland Raiders fans at Friday night’s game.
August 14, 2015; Oakland, CA, USA; St. Louis Rams quarterback Nick Foles (5) reacts during the preseason NFL game against the Oakland Raiders at O.co Coliseum.
When Rod Streater went down with a season-ending broken foot last September, he left behind a wide receiver group on the Oakland Raiders that was extremely thin. Furthermore, this preseason game set the stage for a good amount of debuts. Though Crabtree eventually joined the team for 11 games in the fall, the relationship between the player, the fans, and the organization was soured-never to fully recover. Just the discipline things down the field with the contact and the holding and the hands to face, all of those things that we emphasize.
“He looks good. He looks fresh”, Del Rio said.
While I don’t much care for the hiring of head coach Jack Del Rio, nor the staff of NFL veteran washouts he’s hired as assistant coaches, it could definitely be worse for Carr.
Despite the doctors being unable to figure out what exactly was wrong, Streater says he is not anxious.
“Still working with the doctors, they don’t really know yet (what is wrong)”.
That game likely had little or no bearing on the 3-13 season that followed, just as beating the Rams isn’t any reason to begin wondering what it’s like to actually play football past the 17th week of the season.
“Finally, towering Kris Durham has made a number of outstanding plays at camp and at 6’6” has the size to create mismatches with opposing cornerbacks if he makes the team.
“Butler – who flashed last season – performed well in the Raiders’ 18-3 win over St. Louis on Friday night”. First-round pick Amari Cooper had four touches on the first possession, catching back-to-back passes from Derek Carr. The Raiders took only two penalties for 22 yards.
Derek Carr is firmly in command of the offense. “It’s cool having a coach whose played in the league”.
While he missed significant time with a knee injury last season, Johnson quietly finished 2014 leading the Rams in interceptions. Even Carr’s interception was an intended pass to Cooper in the endzone. Mistakes like that are supposed to happen in the preseason because it gives players a great opportunity to correct errors. It seems like the Raiders will use Murray’s size and speed to make him an effective runner on every part of the field. The Rams looked sluggish at times and struggled offensively to get in the end zone. Running back Latavius Murray carried six times for 35 yards. Ray Ray Armstrong, Curtis Lofton and Charles Woodson all took poor angles and over pursued on Tavon Austin’s big catch and run.
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The screen game continues to look like something the Raiders can’t contain. While those aren’t numbers that will blow anyone away, when you put those numbers up against the Raiders quarterbacks of recent past, Carr added significant value to that position.
