The stretch run begins!
As the 2010 season draws to a close, the Oakland Raiders will be hunting a playoff berth. The final four games aren't the most difficult of the season, but there are some tough teams to play, and the wear and tear of the weekly grind will be taking its toll on this young team.
Week 14: at the Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jaguars are one of those teams that can beat anyone if they bring the right intensity.
Stopping Maurice Jones-Drew will be the key, but that's no easy task. Jones-Drew is 5'8", 205 pounds of talent and fury. Tackling him ...
It came as a surprise to hear on Wednesday that San Francisco 49er fans had indeed voted in favor of a new 64,000 seat stadium to be built.
For years, the famous words of "Candlestick Park" were always associated with San Francisco football, and it had become hard to imagine the 49ers away from their beloved home and placed firmly in a new billion dollar stadium in Santa Clara.
However, before Mike Singletary and Alex Smith can get too cozy with the idea of a new and improved home ground, it seems they may have some unexpected visitors who the 49ers are ...
With Brett Anderson being on the injured list for most of the season, the Oakland A's needed someone to step up to become the ace of the staff while Anderson recovered from his injury.
All signs pointed to Dallas Braden as being the new ace of the staff.
The highlight of Braden's success came on Mothers Day when he pitched a perfect game. Since then, Braden has struggled.
Part of the problem has been the lack of run support for the perfect pitcher.
The other problem with Braden is that he doesn't throw particularly hard and since he throws a slider only on occasion, ...
Last year WR was one of the Raiders many weaknesses. And it would seem as though the team has done little to address the problem.
As it stands right now the Raiders have an entire fleet of what would seem to be all second rate players vying to make the Raiders roster as a receiver.
If the Raiders don't find a gem out of this bunch, Jason Campbell and the Raiders could be in for a long year.
Here's a look at the many players competing to make a roster spot at receiver.
By the way, the picture above is Darrius Heyward-Bey, who has ...
It may surprise you to learn that the Oakland Raiders may need a lesson in football physics. There are examples of lessons that may enhance the players understanding of the object that spins, rotates, and glides through a substance called air.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a football, you are thinking.
Looking high and low for solutions to improve the performance of the Oakland Raiders is a serious matter for some of us fans and researchers.
Here are a few lessons. Thanks to Dr. Tim Gay, a physicist, there is a lot to be learned about the physics of a moving object ...
All right....who was the whiner?
A short time ago the league elected to kill two OTA practices, after it was deemed that they were "too rough".
Aw, I forgot....this isn't football anymore....this is patty-cake and we're supposed to be a kinder, softer team.
Yeah, and I'm a Bronco fan with an thing for Denver.
This is the same deal the Raiders got slapped with back in 2007, when an entire week was crashed, again by the Union, on the grounds that practices are too rough.
It's one thing if it's practice, but could you imagine the Union stopping a game, sending out some lawyer telling ...
First I wanted to say I found this article by Gregg Rosenthal (I'm not trying to take credit for his material) posted on PFT today and wanted to share it with the Raider community in hopes maybe some of you living on the West Coast could shed some light on the subject.
"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has spoken about reducing offseason practices for players, but this probably isn't what he had in mind. For the second time in a week, an NFL team was stripped of OTA practices for an unspecified dispute. The NFL and the NFLPA released a joint ...
A couple of days ago I wrote an article titled Who Should Sign Terrell Owens . The article was syndicated on Bleacher Report and received a lot of positive feedback. One thing that struck me was how badly Oakland Raiders fans wanted Terrell Owens on their team. In past years, things would have been quite the opposite. For most of Owens' career the media successfully cast him as villain. Fans would literally protest at the thought of bringing Owens to their team. On the 49ers, Owens divided the locker room against Jeff Garcia, who ...
One of the most intriguing aspects of Raider Nation is their love/hate relationship with the Raiders owner Allen Davis. When the team has success Al is rarely brought up in conversation. Yet when they struggle, he is the evil dictator from hell.
At what point do the players and coaches become accountable? Raider Nation is so quick to turn on anyone the media points the finger at. If Jesus was playing QB for the Oakland Raiders, he'd be screwed if the media thought he wasn't performing.
The reality is none of us are really sure about who is pulling the strings ...
As OTA's start to wind down, the approach of training camp quickly emerges.
The Raiders finish their OTA programs about next week. A few weeks later it is off to their Napa training camp facility.
The off-season buzz has had the Raider fanbase on a whole new level. As a fellow Raider fan, I fully expect that level to rise once Training Camp is in full swing.
However, questions still loom over the franchise as they try to improve their football team to become a winning playoff contender.
Some questions are easier to answer than others but that is a part ...