The Oakland Raiders: A Walk In The Park This Year

Have they lost a significant pass rusher?
In 2 games last year, Cassel went
24/39 – 241 1 td 2 int
19/34 – 216 0 td 1 int.

There’s a common denominator here there is no pass in Oakland, so I see Matt Cassel just trashing Oakland throwing for over 400 yards like he did in New England.

How do you figure things have changed?

If Wimbley is a flop why should we sign or even trade for him?

Seymour is old but he caused quite a bit of havoc last year playing DE and DT.

Matt Shaughnessy has shown promise

The word is that Raiders will show 3-4 and 4-3 looks, trying to get the most out of all of their ‘hybrid’ players, Wimbley will be a LB in the 3-4 and on 4-3 looks then dropping to DE on 4-3 passing downs, Seymour will be a DT/DE in the 4-3, DE in the 3-4, Kelly DT in both… Honestly I can’t agree with your assessment of Oakland

But Oakland got better this offseason. I think we had the “better” offseason, but I wouldn’t throw Oakland under the bus.

Shaughnessy showed a lot of promise.

but i think they are the scariest team in the AFC west this year… they are starting to put together a pretty talented team… with good talent nonetheless… not the crap they usually pick up… apparently al is buying someones bullshit… i am starting to think this division may be a 2 horse race… and denver and san diego are not invited…

are never easy. This at one time was one of ,if not the best rivalry in football. Also didn’t Oakland when more games than we did last year?

long night in the old ER. Holiday weekends you gotta love em.

Alcohol the great equalizer. Makes people of ordinary or even superior intelligence retarded enough to play with posinous snakes.

They are switching to a 3-4 base defense. But it would be nice to see Cassel throw for 400 on them.

the KC pass rush was nothing spectacular last ear and aside from Shaun Smith (he of the horrible stats who can’t stay healthy) we added nothing to OUR front seven … I guarantee you fans in Oakland (and elsewhere) are saying the same things about the Chiefs (in Oakland they might be drooling about the possibility of Jason Campbell throwing for 400 yards agains us)

MJU, I think you’re off-target here

I think Oakland has improved on paper, but so have we and the Broncos. We are farther along the learning curve than either one of those teams and consistency should be our friend.

Jason Campbell may eventually be the savior in Oakland, but my guess is that he improves them just enough to lose the important games. He has never played well under pressure. Anything is better than Kung Fu Panda.

Denver has to prove that they have any consistency at all. Win your first six or seven and miss the playoffs? I wonder what invisible piece of that machine broke last year? Or was it several pieces?

KC has the QB advantage over both of these teams. Phyllis Rivers is the number one in AFC west and it’s his position to lose. He doesn’t seem to be doing that at this point. Everybody has been waiting for Norv to screw the pooch. He doesn’t seem to be doing that either. SD is the team to beat in the AFC West and if we can upset them on MNF, we set a tone that could be beautiful music for the rest of the year. Don’t be surprised to see a run game that nears exclusivity in that matchup and emphasis on pass coverage from our DBs. If they are going to beat us it will have to be done with the running game and that is not their strongest point at this time.

but i dont think chiefs fans have any room to talk
oh and ur forgeting trevor scott, he had 7 sacks last year

Raiders had the the top pressure-getting D-Line in the league last year and had the most D-Line sacks in the league. You failed to mention Trevor Scott who had 8 sacks last year playing both OLB and DE. Also failed to mention that Shaughnessy got half as many sacks as Greg Ellis (Ellis had 8) in a lot less time. Shaughnessy will be getting more minutes this year.

And you forgot LaMarr Houston, the rookie DE. Yes he’s a rookie so it’s anybody’s guess what his numbers will be. But since he’s 305 pounds, has the strength of a DT and the speed of a 265 DE, and is learning under Seymour, I’m guessing he’ll put up good numbers.

Unless they played on the D line the whole season I didn’t put them in my post.

And this trash about only the d-line counting for pressure on the qb is pretty bad too. The Raiders got a helluva lot better this year, as did the Broncos and the Chiefs. The AFC West will be an above average conference in terms of conference game competition.