Raiders Give Up On The Season
FANS SHOULD BOYCOTT LAST TWO HOME GAMES
Yeah, the Raiders are done.
No news flash there. Raider fans from Monterey to Redding have known this for weeks, but yesterday's dismal performance was one of the team's worst in recent memory. Assuredly, the worst since the Silver and Black's return to Oakland in 1995.
The Raiders 26-10 loss to the lowly and injury-riddled Jets should have been just a bad loss, if not, for the utter disgrace of a gameplan drawn up by coach Norv Turner and his staff, it became an epic disgrace.
Here's the abysmal facts:
Running back Lamont Jordan, who has maintained all season that a heavy workload of 25-30 carries would translate to victory, ran the ball only 14 times against the 29th worst defense against the run. Despite the final score, the vast majority of the game was a tight 6-3 affair, meaning the Raiders could have easily sought to grind out yards with Jordan. But, they didn't.
By not running the ball more effectively, they fed QB Marques Tuiasosopo to the wolves of the Jets defensive line. In his first start, Tuiasosopo was apparently expected to brave a majority of the snaps with passing plays behind an offensive line as porous as the levees in New Orleans.
The Raiders defensive strategy wasn't any more thoughtout. They allowed an equally inept backup in Brooks Bollinger to beat them, not through the air, but with his feet. Bollinger ran for 56 yards, which was more than any Raider back. It was the most rushing yards by a QB in Jets history.
Why did the Raiders defense blitz the quarterback only four times and give a quarterback like Bollinger, who has yet to show any passing ability, the time to scramble?
These sort of obvious miscalculations on the Raiders coaching staff gives the impression that a revolt is reaching cancerous proportions in the locker room.
Turner's mindboggling gameplan also gives credence to the notion that the demotion of Kerry Collins came from the pressbox and not from the coaching staff.
Not only did Collins vent passive-aggressive frustration to the San Francisco Chronicle, but Lamont Jordan and Derrick Burgess also criticized the team in a public fashion.
The Raiders, from the players to the coaching staff, have pathetically given up with three games still to play. It's time for the fans to do the same and stay home for the last two home games. There's a reason why the Raiders don't sellout their games. Why would you pay exhorbinant prices to watch a team you can't trust will play honestly?
Yeah, the Raiders are done.
No news flash there. Raider fans from Monterey to Redding have known this for weeks, but yesterday's dismal performance was one of the team's worst in recent memory. Assuredly, the worst since the Silver and Black's return to Oakland in 1995.
The Raiders 26-10 loss to the lowly and injury-riddled Jets should have been just a bad loss, if not, for the utter disgrace of a gameplan drawn up by coach Norv Turner and his staff, it became an epic disgrace.
Here's the abysmal facts:
Running back Lamont Jordan, who has maintained all season that a heavy workload of 25-30 carries would translate to victory, ran the ball only 14 times against the 29th worst defense against the run. Despite the final score, the vast majority of the game was a tight 6-3 affair, meaning the Raiders could have easily sought to grind out yards with Jordan. But, they didn't.
By not running the ball more effectively, they fed QB Marques Tuiasosopo to the wolves of the Jets defensive line. In his first start, Tuiasosopo was apparently expected to brave a majority of the snaps with passing plays behind an offensive line as porous as the levees in New Orleans.
The Raiders defensive strategy wasn't any more thoughtout. They allowed an equally inept backup in Brooks Bollinger to beat them, not through the air, but with his feet. Bollinger ran for 56 yards, which was more than any Raider back. It was the most rushing yards by a QB in Jets history.
Why did the Raiders defense blitz the quarterback only four times and give a quarterback like Bollinger, who has yet to show any passing ability, the time to scramble?
These sort of obvious miscalculations on the Raiders coaching staff gives the impression that a revolt is reaching cancerous proportions in the locker room.
Turner's mindboggling gameplan also gives credence to the notion that the demotion of Kerry Collins came from the pressbox and not from the coaching staff.
Not only did Collins vent passive-aggressive frustration to the San Francisco Chronicle, but Lamont Jordan and Derrick Burgess also criticized the team in a public fashion.
The Raiders, from the players to the coaching staff, have pathetically given up with three games still to play. It's time for the fans to do the same and stay home for the last two home games. There's a reason why the Raiders don't sellout their games. Why would you pay exhorbinant prices to watch a team you can't trust will play honestly?
For what it's worth, I've been boycotting the Raiders all season...and last year...and the year before that...and the year before that. I think you're a little late jumping on my bandwagon.
Posted by
MrYosemite |
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:24:00 AM
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