Ask a Raider Fan.

WRs = We don’t have an outright No.1, but we have a young crop of receivers who are developing all the time. Denarius Moore and Jacoby Ford are the ones to watch, but don’t sleep on Heyward-Bey either – he’s finally beginning to produce.

CJ had a horrible game against Buffalo and has been injured ever since. We’ll probably have our fourth round rookie, Chimdi Chekwa, on the other side – he looked pretty decent against the Jets, not so good against the Patriots but since our genius DC had him in single coverage against Welker half the game that’s understandable.

Jury’s still out on Ro. He has the talent and a nasty streak, but he doesn’t seem to be able to put it together. I imagine you’ll be seeing a lot of Mike Mitchell to cover Daniels.

The defensive line is nasty, & they have nice LBs. Their safeties are good, but their CBs are young & inexperienced

I honestly don’t have a clue how we’re going to even contain Foster. Our best chance is for our D-line to show up and rattle the hell out of Schaub.

a couple of boneheaded INTs last game excepted.

He’s mobile enough to avoid pressure, and we rely a lot on screen passes so Wade Phillips might want to restrain himself somewhat with the blitzing. His man flaw is his deep ball accuracy, but he’s all right as a game manager. If McFadden can get 100-120 yards rushing and Campbell doesn’t have to carry the load himself I feel we have a shot.

He gets to the edge so fast with 4.3 speed and ripped the Jets because they failed to seal the edges. Campbell continues to generally develop well and has made very few errors so far. He threw 2 bad interceptions against the Pats, but that is about it. He has become more mobile and will scramble when in trouble. He needs to be able to get rid of the ball faster and checks down often and for too long. He’s a good short range passer and lately has started improving his accuracy on the deep ball, but he still seems a little afraid to throw the deep ones. Our o-line has been surprisingly good for such a green new line and we have developed much confidence in the o-line. Compared to last year, the o-line has been Jason’s saving grace this year and has given him time to compensate for his slowness.

They didn’t really show up last week and they are gonna be pissed off. Schaub better be ready to eat the turf a few times.

Also, our passing game is getting better to the point where teams can’t really afford to play 8 in the box against us every game.

Not too shabby. Don’t know if that is because of the o-line being that good or because they have been running so much. Probably a combination of both.

Coming into the season most of us thought it would be a weakness. But they’ve been excellent in run blocking and done a great job of protecting Jason. One of those two sacks wasn’t even their fault – in the Jets game JC tripped over McFadden’s feet as he dropped back.

Mario Williams is probably the most complete rusher we’ll have faced so far this year, but I’m confident that our guys can handle them. Jared Veldheer and Stefen Wisniewski in particular both look like All-NFL guys in waiting.

I’d also agree that you guys have an underrated O-line. How has Duane Brown not made the Pro Bowl or an All-NFL team yet? I reckon yr group is one of the best run blocking units in the league.

He won’t lose us games, but he won’t win that many on his own either. But the development of our receivers is helping.

Long as McFadden can make an impact we’ll keep pounding it in there. You guys seem confident of yr run D but you haven’t faced a back as complete as DMC yet. He can literally do it all – pound it inside, stretch runs/pitches to the outside (probably his strength, given his rare combo of speed and power) and he’s an excellent receiver.

IMHO is Shiner. Pick your flavor. I like Shiner Blonde myself. Texas brewed.

DMC had problems with turf toe and other niggles even when he was supposedly fit to go his first two seasons, plus we didn’t have the plays to take advantage of his skill set.

Most people by now know the story of when Hue came to town as OC last year asking him what plays he liked to run, but it’s pretty much true.

And yeah, Jerrah can go to hell. I wrote a fanpost on SBP a few months back describing my visit to his Death Star – let’s just say that the turf no longer totally ties the whole stadium together.
Al is like a crazy old uncle to Raider fans. Sure he makes some moves that leave us confused at times – but he’s family. To hate him is to hate the Raiders themselves.

and probably not for a year or two at least.

Campbell is 29 and off contract at the end of the year. I’m sure we’ll re-sign him, but for how long depends on whether he can take the next step and Pryor’s development. Ideally, we’d have a Bledsoe/Brady situation happening.

Honestly, though – given our franchise’s history with developing QBs (aside from one Ken Stabler, horrible) I’m not that confident.

is lack of depth. Routt is really good and a fine replacement as No.1 corner. But behind him at CB we have rookies and dreck. Our safeties are mediocre at best.

Houston and Pittsburgh are bitter rivals when it comes to football, I can’t say I helped that any with my honest opinion of the Steelers weeknesses, by the way I was 100% correct, aside from my prediction that saun cody would accidentally get a sack. anyway, shit went wrong from the beginning.

This week, Nice! much respect for the Raiders and what they have accomplished so far this year.

other than the Saints, this is the “other” game I had circled as “it makes me nervous” even less than which Ravens team will show up the following week. It WILL be a good football game. DMC is the one I worry about. The Texans have a problem up the middle in run support, so I think they have cheating towards the middle in running situations, therefore it has allowed for a lack of containment on the outside. basically it all adds up to….just run the damned ball and the Texans will have prooblems. do that successfully and play-action will create big plays. It’s basically the same thing we do.

Campbell loves to throw to his TEs, and he’s our best red zone target. He’s going to play a role.

We did pretty well against Gronkowski last week though, so I hope that continues (even though, like I said earlier, I have Owen Daniels on two fantasy teams).

Even when the Boss was out we did fine. I think we’re all realising we overrated Zach during his time in Oakland by virtue of being our only decent receiver.

Boss is also a better run blocker.

But we got 2 new rookies that look very promising in David Ausberry and Richard Gordon. Ausberry can be used as a WR and has played fullback at USC. He seems to have excellent hands. Gordon is huge at 265 lbs and was drafted as a blocking tight end. Nevertheless, he replaced an injured Marcel Reece at fullback against the Pats. Gordon broke his hand last game but they say he is serviceable and may play with a cast.

but Michael Bush is one of the best No.2 RBs in the league, and Taiwan Jones has similar explosiveness although we need to get him on the field. I imagine DMC’s carries will begin to decrease as the season goes on.

What appears to be most important about him is that if Run DMC gets hurt, we don’t have to change the game plan much. Many have compared Taiwan with the running styles of Jamal Charles and Chris Johnson.

How do the Raiders do against the 3-4?

but not by much at all. Our O-line has been really good this year, but yrs is elite.

No matter how much I have made fun of Al Davis, for being so old, picking speed over any other attribute, et al, Al Davis was a great man for the NFL.

R.I.P. Crazy uncle Al.

Polamalu looked liked the one that was frustrated by all the tackles he missed

With deficiencies in both teams run D and how solid both our run offenses are, who runs for the most is going to have little effect on the outcome. Both teams will rush for a lot of yards and the difference between them will be negligible.

This game will come down to Matt Schaub vs JC + pass defenses.

There is only so much you can do on the ground.

The Texans will march right down the field. If the Raiders sell out to stop the run the Texans will eat them alive with play action.