It would have made a lot less sense for Del Rio to not make the gutsy call at that point.
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“In a game like this, conventional wisdom would point to the defense, but I would say we didn’t score enough offensively”, Payton said.
“We’ll be fine”, said veteran right guard Jahri Evans, who was re-acquired last week to shore up the unit.
His Raiders had already demonstrated considerable resolve just to get to that point.
Trailing by 14 points in the second half and unable to slow Brees – who passed for 423 yards and four touchdowns – it did not seem as though the Raiders would be in a position to gamble, let alone show faith.
MINNESOTA 25, TENNESSEE 16: In Nashville, Tennessee, Eric Kendricks returned an interception 77 yards for a touchdown late in the third quarter and Danielle Hunter scored a 24-yard TD off a fumble return and the Vikings beat the Titans.
“You’ll see that from time to time”.
“We’re here to win”, Del Rio said after the game, via the San Francisco Chronicle’s Vic Tafur.
Cooks on his record-setting 98-yard touchdown pass from Brees: “Drew and I, we just happened to be on the same page, thinking the same thing. So I think they did some good things, especially early, but there are some things they’ve got to get better at, and I think they will from Week 1 to Week 2”. Cooper finished with 6 catches for 137 yards.
Oakland Raiders running back Jalen Richard, a former Southern Miss star, spoke with the Hattiesburg American after Sunday’s win against the New Orleans Saints.
PACKERS 27, JAGUARS 23: Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score, leading the Packers to a victory against the Jaguars.
Snead finished with nine catches for 172 yards and New Orleans almost held on, but Saints linebacker Craig Robertson was flagged for interference on a four-down pass that sailed out of bounds. “He’s just a great receiver, he had the best of that one”, said cornerback Ken Crawley.
SEATTLE 12, MIAMI 10: In Seattle, Hobbled by an ankle injury, Russell Wilson pulled off another fourth-quarter comeback, throwing a 2-yard touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin with 31 seconds left.
Carr, in his second season, passed for 319 yards and one touchdown, but he wasn’t needed to carry the load. They allowed only one sack, and to be honest, it was a coverage sack where Brees held the ball way too long.
Dan Bailey had four field goals, matched his career long at 56 yards and had another one from 54.
The miss came after Garoppolo, in his first National Football League start, directed the Patriots from their own 19 to the Arizona 15 to set up Stephen Gostkowski’s 23-yard field goal for what proved to be the victor with 3:44 to play. This set up the Saints with a 61-yard field-goal attempt for the win. He also handled kickoffs and hit a 20-yard field goal that was tipped. He would miss the field goal. With that said, Payton acknowledged that call wasn’t the reason the team lost.
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Statistically, ESPN’s win probability model gave Oakland a 44% chance of winning if they went for two, while kicking the XP gave the Silver and Black a 51% chance of leaving the Superdome with the win. “He’s really talented. There are obviously going to be some bumps along the way”. Routinely punishing any player lined up across from him, Osemele even filled in at left tackle in a pinch when Matt McCants went down with an injury, which saw Donald Penn to flip to the right side.
