Game Day Thread, Raiders Visit Foxboro

[Attyla]

Mild temps and a chance of rain/wind as our Raiders travel east.

Raiders are +3.5 and the over/under is 44.5.

On tap, my vegetable soup and crusty bread. I will enjoy a local brew called Rhinodart and if you can find it I highly recommend it.

With the spread, the oddsmakers have us just a tiny bit worse than the most recent AFC Champions.

Gonna be a fun one. Enjoy the game.

[Opoponax50]

It ain't over yet, but it's not looking good.

Thankfully our coaching staff had the discipline to not throw Mendoza out there right away. Like everyone said, let's wait and get a decent O-line before we throw the kid to the wolves.

[Hellbound]

This team seems to be coming back to earth

[Steve007]

Wasted of a high 1st round pick on Jeanty. Dude’s Heisman stats were inflated from playing against Mountain West opponents, once he got exposed by Penn State in the CPF that year I knew he’s not 1st rd material. But raiders were desperate at the time to shore up their running game. What a bad pick regardless.

Well he had Mountain West guys blocking for him against Penn State too.

But I still agree with you that it’s a bad pick. Teams don’t pick running backs that high anymore. They get hurt so much and have short careers. Right now Jeanty is banged up and has been since weak 1.

If you want to run the ball better you pick oline with a pick that high and pick a running back later.

[Rabidraider]

Tackling has been terrible.

[Sloth_Fratelli]

Jeanty was never a great pick. He’s not that level of RB, and he never was.

For a 6th overall pick, you are looking for LaDainian Tomlinson level, Adrian Peterson level, etc.

He’s nowhere near as explosive or shifty enough to have ever warranted being picked that high.

He’s a guy you like if you pick later in the draft.

He’s not even better than Josh Jacobs. Jeanty isn’t a bust but he was a horrible pick & the GM hasn’t got anything from the draft.

Meanwhile Telesco got us our only playmaker who’s gonna be a HOFer, a solid NFL guard and our best OL in his one draft, plus guys that can actually play in the league & Brady fires him to get his buddy in. Kubiak needs his own GM

[HesterLayes]

The reverse is the play of the game

Hope this doesn’t start a bad run…going to be rough

[BoKnows81]

It ain't over yet, but it's not looking good.

Thankfully our coaching staff had the discipline to not throw Mendoza out there right away. Like everyone said, let's wait and get a decent O-line before we throw the kid to the wolves.

The line has played phenomenal up until today, specifically pass pro. Not really a fair stance.

[Sloth_Fratelli]

This team seems to be coming back to earth

Which is why Klint should have never ran his mouth off at halftime last week against a perennial Super Bowl contender, all while we got a guy that can’t draft

[Raider_Dave]

Kubiak has done a pretty shit job at calling plays on offense the last two games

Kubiak wants to be a running team. With ZERO running game it's going to be tough.
It's actually amazing this team got to 3-0 and was even competitive vs KC with no running game to speak of outside of game 1 vs Miami.

[Steve007]

This team seems to be coming back to earth

Getting weaknesses exposed with the tougher schedule.

This team looked a lot better against the Chiefs. Mahomes was getting pressured a lot more.

[BlackShield]

brutal first half. but considering this is a 3-1 team on a full rebuild facing a confident ne team on the east coast, i'll take it.

let's see what the adjustments are for the second half. jeanty first...we understand that you are a competitor and want to help the team, but you are not right at the moment. have to give washington the rock, concerns or not. how are you going to get better at pass pro if you don't get any real time reps? and it's not like the mighty dylan laube is blocking any better. washington in. let the rook cook, and let him make mistakes. every player on the field was a rookie once!

[ELCAraiderfan]

Seriously, why is Washington not being used more on offense? he even used lubee in there who is a worse version of jeanty is right now. Are we tanking for higher draft choices next year already? Since they know the raiders aren't going anywhere this year???

and another seriously how f[raiders_icon]cking stupid can you be to not fly out two to even three days early before a trip back to the east coast?

[nmonte374]

I thought all the patriots corners and receivers were injured?

[Opoponax50]

The line has played phenomenal up until today, specifically pass pro. Not a fair stance.

Our running game has been terrible and Cousins and Bowers have carried almost the entire weight for the O. Look at the horrible protection Cousins is getting today. Our O-line is terrible.

[Reno Hightower]

He’s not even better than Josh Jacobs. Jeanty isn’t a bust but he was a horrible pick & the GM hasn’t got anything from the draft.

Meanwhile Telesco got us our only playmaker who’s gonna be a HOFer, a solid NFL guard and our best OL in his one draft, plus guys that can actually play in the league & Brady fires him to get his buddy in. Kubiak needs his own GM

Jacobs was first team All Pro, great Raider. 4 quarter game. Let's see what kind of adjustments are made.