Raiders are going to be a tough first game (1 Viewer)

[WxM]

Yes, the Raiders are much improved! In my opinion, the biggest weakness on their team is the safety position. Reggie Nelson is an old, banged up 32 and Karl Joseph is a rookie from West Virginia.

Payton and Brees are going to have a field day manipulating that safety set! Im not saying we are going to win or lose, but the Raiders certainly have weaknesses to exploit.

What does being from West Virginia have to do with not being any good?

 

[SunshinePumper]

What does being from West Virginia have to do with not being any good?

West Virginia's cool mountain air makes people soft. The only way one can be good is to play in 110-degree and 100% humidity Gulf South air all of the time.

 

[Big_L]

The Raiders play the Titans in week 3 and were never going to put anything on tape that would be useful in 4 weeks.

Wouldn't that apply to the Titans as well?

 

[WilliamBrees]

I could see it being a 34-31 type of game.

Throw that out the window lol.

 

[WilliamBrees]

Notables....
Even with that improved oline Latavius is not getting good ypc.
They very well may have held back against Tennessee with run defense. However, JDR was said to have not been happy.

We need to stop Murray. The raiders allow TE production so Brees can check down to Fleener in this game and move the chains some. And get Ingram involved as much as possible.

 

[REBELMAX]

We are going to have to run the ball to beat them. If we drop Brees back 45 times we will lose.

Run the ball effectively or semi effectively and win the turnover battle and we should win this game at home.

 

[Igordão]

This feels like last year's opener. Let's just hope we don't get smoked.

This year's Raiders are not as good as last year's cardinals - at least by their preseason games up to this point.