Oakland Raiders End of Season Round Up

Tonight the Oakland Raiders sit proud at 11-4 with a chance to own the division and conference if the rival Kansas City Chiefs loses to Division rival Denver Broncos. RB DMC said after the game that the team plans on getting together to watch the Chiefs got rocked by Coach Dawg and Denver. Even if they do not watch a miracle loss to clinch the top of the AFC they are happy to be in the playoffs though.

To recap the season: Jason Campbell started out on the block but dominated defenses with 3253 yards passing and 29 TDs. Coach was happy with this and said that the team leadership is looking at bringing him back on the long term even though Carson Palmer was on the minds of some. Team officials site Terrelle Pryor and his rookie development as a challenge to this and believe he could make a surprise surge to the top of the depth charts.

Team MVP Darren McFadden put up an impressive season of totals! His 241 carries for 1544 yards and 19 touchdown and lead the team with 42 receptions and 832 yards and 10 touchdowns. Some criticize the game plan and strategy but Coach and team leadership say that if its effective its here to stay, come and stop it. Teams known for criticizing though are sitting on the outside of the playoffs looking in and this writer suggests to them: work on your game plan before you talk trash of another. DMC will be asked to work with an unnamed retired coach to work on his fumbling issues, having given up 10.

As a team of receivers and TE the Oakland Raiders spread the ball well. There were five players with 20 or more receptions; this is a point which only 10 other teams in the league reached this season! The often injured Kevin Boss was told that he is on the wire for the offseason because of the rookie David Ausberry's performance in the weeks he was injured. Kevin Boss could not be reached for comment.

The OL which Coach Gordon has suggested is the weakest part of the team will be looked at in the offseason to be reconstructed. Center Samson Satele was told to be ready to back someone up next season because a high pick is to be used on his replacement.

On Defense no one person can take credit for the performance this year and the Coach has said that the regular season Defensive MVP is the bench warmers because they motivated that starters to perform. Five players put up fiver or more sacks (Scott, Kelly, Houston, Groves, and Seymour) and McClain's 4 INT game is still the talk of the town. Coach is happiest with his Corner backs Chris Johnson, Stanford Routt, and Chekwa who stepped it up this season to replace.

The highest paid kicker/punter combo in the league is said to be happy that they got to rest their legs a little this season.

Coach wanted to point out that though weeks 15 and 16 were difficult on the team they are ready for the playoffs after a dominating win over a tough San Diego. "They just came coming after us hard. They knew our game plan was to run and they tried everything to stop it. DMC just got in there and broke some tackles for some big gains though." This writer is happy with where the team is and ready for Raider Nation's glorious return to the post season after so many years of waiting for Baseball to start up.

Wow, was that a cheap shot at the lions in there coach?? Just remember, in order to get a shot at redemption against the soon to be AFC top seeded Chiefs...you have to go into Jacksonville and come out on top. This writer suggests that MJD goes for a stat padding 1000 yards rushing on you and Coach Cobbs holds true on his pre game week 15 talk and actually shoots McFadden. See you in the offseason.

I count two potential cheap shots at Coach Cobbs.

I'm not concerned. Again, the playoffs and a schedule with tough opponents will be your undoing. You haven't faced one member of the NFC East or South. You haven't faced 49ers or Seahawks. You've skirted around probably 10 of the top 15 teams in the league.

Good season wrap, i like that you mentioned that our game was tough but i'm taking mental notes over the suggesting that it was a dominating win,considering it was tied entering the 4th

It wa tied in the fourth? So it was a lot closer then the score then.

cobbs87 wrote:

It wa tied in the fourth? So it was a lot closer then the score then.

yea. not gonna take anything away from his win though but it was 14-14.

he scored, then Rivers got injured for my next drive

punted

he scored again,then it was pretty much over

Wow. That's rough. Good to know the real story.