OFFICIAL OAKLAND RAIDERS 2010 SEASON THREAD
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the point is that Murphy has put up 12 more points and Crabtree has LOST a fumble.....so the other team possibly put up points that he gave away.
Murphy costs less and bitches less. y'all so bent up on DHB vs Crabtree, but Murphy came from the same draft class and is playing better than both players.
Murphy costs less and bitches less. y'all so bent up on DHB vs Crabtree, but Murphy came from the same draft class and is playing better than both players.
Paul Gutierrez
CSN California.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- For what seemed an eternity, Louis Murphy and Darrius Heyward-Bey stared into space.
The Raiders' second-year receivers seemed in a trance. They sat, then stood, then sat again at their respective lockers, deep in the bowels of Candlestick Park.
“We lost,” Heyward-Bey said with no prompting.
“We lost,” he said when asked if he was taking it hard.
“We lost,” he said when asked about competing against 49ers counterpart Michael Crabtree.
“I’ve got to go back and watch the film,” Murphy said.
The Raiders’ 17-9 unraveling at the hands of the 49ers complete, Heyward-Bey and Murphy tried, unsuccessfully, to make sense of the latest mishap.
Good luck with that. Because this is a story as tired as Chilean miner jokes and yet, you had the sense that those guys had a better chance of climbing out of their morass than did the Raiders on another afternoon of missed opportunities.
Because while the Raiders had their Silver and Black boots clearly on the 49ers’ necks in the first half, they eased up.
Or, to put it as only Tommy Kelly could: “They were ready to get the (blank) knocked out. But we wanna jab and jab and jab. You need to knock a (guy) out with the right, and we just didn’t throw the right.”
Not after the first two series, anyways. Because you don’t drive the ball 79 yards in 13 plays and chew up 7 minutes and 58 seconds on the first series of the game, follow it up with an 85-yard, 12-play drive in 6:22, and come out of it with just six points.
Not when you were so spectacular in red-zone efficiency the previous two games, going a combined 5-for-6. But you do when you follow it up with a sickly 0-2.
And yet, here they were, not only letting the 49ers breathe, but helping them up, dusting them off and sending them on their merry way.
That came on the Raiders’ next offensive series, when quarterback Jason Campbell tried to force a throw to tight end Zach Miller and instead was picked of by Manny Lawson.
The next five Raiders’ series ended with three-and-outs.
That distinct JaMarcus-eque smell emanating from this side of the Bay? That was Campbell’s play after those first two drives.
Not even Russell had a day as bad as Campbell, whose 10.7 is a good 100-yard dash time, but absolutely brutal for a rating.
“If we score those first two touchdowns,” Campbell sighed, “it’s a whole different ballgame.
“But to get two field goals, it keeps (the 49ers) in it because they know they’re just a touchdown from being on top.”
A week ago, Campbell led the comeback win over San Diego, coming in when Bruce Gradkowski’s ailing right shoulder would not allow him to continue. Campbell’s passer rating against the Chargers (117.6) was the second-highest of his career. The 10.6, his lowest.
Coach Tom Cable insisted he never once thought of benching Campbell for Kyle Boller, what with Gradkowski listed as the No. 3 emergency quarterback.
Not even when it was obvious Campbell just did not have it, even with the offensive line providing adequate protection.
“I didn’t feel like there was as much pressure as we had,” Cable said. “I think he was only sacked once or twice. Some of that is getting the right read and throwing the ball on time and making a play for it.”
Some of it, though, was peculiar play-calling by offensive coordinator Hue Jackson that resembled nothing of the balance promised and shown through five games.
The Raiders ran the ball 30 times (for 110 yards, a mere 3.7 average) and passed it 21 times. The last five plays from scrimmage were passes, though. Which is good and fine if you have Marcus Allen in the backfield and you’re sitting on a lead. Trying to mount a comeback? Not so much.
Of course, Campbell’s troubles under center may have ushered in a lack of confidence in him.
On the other side of the ball, meanwhile, the defense had a pair of missed-opportunity breakdowns that contributed just as mightily to the defeat.
A breakdown in zone coverage -- why, again, were they in zone when Nnamdi Asomugha had been locking up Crabtree all game long? -- allowed Crabtree to break free on a simple post and haul in Alex Smith’s 32-yard touchdown pass.
“He shot up where we were supposed to have another guy coming from the side who got there a little late,” Asomugha said. “But he’s got to make the play.”
Chris Johnson, anyone?
And when the secondary didn’t leak, the run defense gave it up to Frank Gore and his 64-yard fourth-quarter gallop.
“That’s the story of the Raider,” Kelly said, going singular for the occasion. “Play good, play good…Boom! There goes something. To go from the high of last week to this low? It’s rough.”
As such, the Raiders have not won back-to-back games since closing out the 2008 season with victories over Houston and Tampa Bay.
“What you did last week doesn’t mean anything if you don’t follow it up,” Cable said. “This game was right there for us to win and we didn’t get it done in terms of situations and the opportunities that present themselves.”
True enough. Just try explaining that a pair of impressionable young wideouts.
Read more: Gutierrez: Little Explanation for Raiders' Loss to 49ers
Tune to SportsNet Central at 6, 10:30 and midnight on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area for more on this story
CSN California.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- For what seemed an eternity, Louis Murphy and Darrius Heyward-Bey stared into space.
The Raiders' second-year receivers seemed in a trance. They sat, then stood, then sat again at their respective lockers, deep in the bowels of Candlestick Park.
“We lost,” Heyward-Bey said with no prompting.
“We lost,” he said when asked if he was taking it hard.
“We lost,” he said when asked about competing against 49ers counterpart Michael Crabtree.
“I’ve got to go back and watch the film,” Murphy said.
The Raiders’ 17-9 unraveling at the hands of the 49ers complete, Heyward-Bey and Murphy tried, unsuccessfully, to make sense of the latest mishap.
Good luck with that. Because this is a story as tired as Chilean miner jokes and yet, you had the sense that those guys had a better chance of climbing out of their morass than did the Raiders on another afternoon of missed opportunities.
Because while the Raiders had their Silver and Black boots clearly on the 49ers’ necks in the first half, they eased up.
Or, to put it as only Tommy Kelly could: “They were ready to get the (blank) knocked out. But we wanna jab and jab and jab. You need to knock a (guy) out with the right, and we just didn’t throw the right.”
Not after the first two series, anyways. Because you don’t drive the ball 79 yards in 13 plays and chew up 7 minutes and 58 seconds on the first series of the game, follow it up with an 85-yard, 12-play drive in 6:22, and come out of it with just six points.
Not when you were so spectacular in red-zone efficiency the previous two games, going a combined 5-for-6. But you do when you follow it up with a sickly 0-2.
And yet, here they were, not only letting the 49ers breathe, but helping them up, dusting them off and sending them on their merry way.
That came on the Raiders’ next offensive series, when quarterback Jason Campbell tried to force a throw to tight end Zach Miller and instead was picked of by Manny Lawson.
The next five Raiders’ series ended with three-and-outs.
That distinct JaMarcus-eque smell emanating from this side of the Bay? That was Campbell’s play after those first two drives.
Not even Russell had a day as bad as Campbell, whose 10.7 is a good 100-yard dash time, but absolutely brutal for a rating.
“If we score those first two touchdowns,” Campbell sighed, “it’s a whole different ballgame.
“But to get two field goals, it keeps (the 49ers) in it because they know they’re just a touchdown from being on top.”
A week ago, Campbell led the comeback win over San Diego, coming in when Bruce Gradkowski’s ailing right shoulder would not allow him to continue. Campbell’s passer rating against the Chargers (117.6) was the second-highest of his career. The 10.6, his lowest.
Coach Tom Cable insisted he never once thought of benching Campbell for Kyle Boller, what with Gradkowski listed as the No. 3 emergency quarterback.
Not even when it was obvious Campbell just did not have it, even with the offensive line providing adequate protection.
“I didn’t feel like there was as much pressure as we had,” Cable said. “I think he was only sacked once or twice. Some of that is getting the right read and throwing the ball on time and making a play for it.”
Some of it, though, was peculiar play-calling by offensive coordinator Hue Jackson that resembled nothing of the balance promised and shown through five games.
The Raiders ran the ball 30 times (for 110 yards, a mere 3.7 average) and passed it 21 times. The last five plays from scrimmage were passes, though. Which is good and fine if you have Marcus Allen in the backfield and you’re sitting on a lead. Trying to mount a comeback? Not so much.
Of course, Campbell’s troubles under center may have ushered in a lack of confidence in him.
On the other side of the ball, meanwhile, the defense had a pair of missed-opportunity breakdowns that contributed just as mightily to the defeat.
A breakdown in zone coverage -- why, again, were they in zone when Nnamdi Asomugha had been locking up Crabtree all game long? -- allowed Crabtree to break free on a simple post and haul in Alex Smith’s 32-yard touchdown pass.
“He shot up where we were supposed to have another guy coming from the side who got there a little late,” Asomugha said. “But he’s got to make the play.”
Chris Johnson, anyone?
And when the secondary didn’t leak, the run defense gave it up to Frank Gore and his 64-yard fourth-quarter gallop.
“That’s the story of the Raider,” Kelly said, going singular for the occasion. “Play good, play good…Boom! There goes something. To go from the high of last week to this low? It’s rough.”
As such, the Raiders have not won back-to-back games since closing out the 2008 season with victories over Houston and Tampa Bay.
“What you did last week doesn’t mean anything if you don’t follow it up,” Cable said. “This game was right there for us to win and we didn’t get it done in terms of situations and the opportunities that present themselves.”
True enough. Just try explaining that a pair of impressionable young wideouts.
Read more: Gutierrez: Little Explanation for Raiders' Loss to 49ers
Tune to SportsNet Central at 6, 10:30 and midnight on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area for more on this story
