OFFICIAL OAKLAND RAIDERS 2010 SEASON THREAD

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From ESPN Insider:

Wrap-up: Raiders 59, Broncos 14
October, 24, 2010 Oct 248:38PM ETEmail Print Comments306 By Bill WilliamsonA look at a high-water day for the Raiders and an embarrassing day for the Broncos:

What does it mean: Perhaps the Oakland Raiders are ready to buckle down and become a consistent threat? This was an amazing performance by the Raiders. The 59 points was a franchise high for a team rich in tradition. Who would have ever thought these Raiders would set the mark?

This was, by far, Oakland’s best day since 2003 when the team’s losing skid started. Oakland has been looking for something to build on. Well, this is the foundation.

As exhilarating of a victory it was for the Raiders, it was a devastating blow for the Broncos. To lose at home by 45 points to a team that has been struggling is catastrophic. This game will hover over second-year coach Josh McDaniels until he proves he has this team going in the right direction. A few more of these bombs and the calls for McDaniels’ head will get louder.

Trending: Darren McFadden continued his hot season. All the guy needs to do is stay healthy. He had 165 yards rushing on 16 carries. He has 557 yards rushing despite missing two games with a hamstring injury. He has become an impact player in his third NFL season.

Tomorrow’s talker: It has to be Oakland’s 59 points. What a performance. The Raiders did it in three quarters. It was the show of the day in the NFL, maybe the entire season.

What’s next: Denver was so bad Sunday, it has to leave the country. The Broncos play San Francisco at London. What did the British do to deserve that?
 
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Paul Gutierrez
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ALAMEDA – Tom Cable had a certain air about him in the minutes after the Raiders’ historic beatdown of Denver on Sunday.

He puffed out his chest a bit. His voice was firm, somewhat indignant. He stared through reporters whose questions he deemed superfluous. He seemed close to boastful promises while making like a preacher and imploring Raider Nation to support his team this week at the Coliseum.

Yes, the Raiders coach was feeling it. And why not? The Raiders had just dropped a franchise record 59 points on one of their most bitter rivals, a week after one of the team’s most uninspiring performances in recent memory. So yeah, let the man marinate in it for a minute. Celebrate his giving them a true Victory Monday – a day off. The first such Monday of the season.

Just don’t revel in it for too long.

Because if the Raiders are unable to follow up on the 59-14 defeat of the Broncos with another victory Sunday at home against Seattle, this win is nothing more than a curiosity. A wondrous one-day novelty. Fool’s gold in a land stained with silver and black.

Maybe that’s why Cable seemed a tad more even keeled the day after. The bellicosity had dissipated.

“You take this one and learn from it,” Cable said in his weekly Monday media conference. “I know I always say that, but that’s what this game is all about. You either learn, or not. And if you’re not, you’re going backwards.

“To me, (let’s) see what came out of it. And be very critical of ourselves. There’s certainly plenty to work on from that game. We will get better. We have to get better.”

It’s the mark of a team that wants to get better. They have to realize that, yes, while they thoroughly dominated the Broncos, they also made mistakes. And they cannot fall by the wayside in the wake of such a feel-good game.

Points of emphasis – finishing blocks on the offensive line; a blown defensive coverage; defensive alignments; clock management; and false starts.

So are these guys, who comprise a team that has lost 11 games or more for a record seven straight seasons, mature enough to buy what Cable is selling?

“Sure they are,” Cable said. “They know when I talk to them I’m not arbitrarily (making it) up, or saying, ‘We need to do this better, or that better.’”

No, Cable will call them out on video.

“I’ll put on a cut-up for them and say, ‘Here it is,’” Cable said. “We’ll do that if necessary in front of the team, so that we’ve got everybody’s attention. That’s something that we’ve done, and they’ve taken acceptance of that or been accountable for those things, and that’s helped them.”

On the horizon, a true test for a team that has not been able to string together consecutive victories since closing out the 2008 season with wins over Houston and Tampa Bay. The Raiders have not win three in a row since the 2002 Super Bowl season.

And here’s what’s staring them in the face – the chance to beat an old AFC West foe this weekend in the Seahawks followed by the current division front-runners in Kansas City, with both games in Oakland. They do that, and the Raiders enter the bye week with momentum not seen in these parts in eight years, an overall record of 5-4 but, most importantly, 3-0 in the division, and, at the very least, ½ game behind the Chiefs for first place.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This is still the same outfit that could muster only nine points, 10 first downs and 179 yards of offense, a sickly 69 yards passing, after a quick start against the 49ers.

Then again, the Raiders pounded the Broncos for 52 points and 508 yards of offense, 328 on the ground.

Still stunned, are you?

“To be honest with you, the whole world was shocked,” said cornerback Chris Johnson, whose 30-yard interception return for a touchdown on the Broncos’ second play from scrimmage gave the Raiders a 14-0 lead.

“We expected to win. For us to win like we did, I mean, nobody knows where it came from.”

Johnson was speaking in a mostly vacant Raiders locker room, the result of the most rewarding “Victory Monday” in Silver and Blackdom’s recent history.

In fact, even the so-called negatives were good problems to have.

Rookie Jared Veldheer received his first career start at left tackle and, despite three false start penalties, was dominant most of the time, blowing open huge holes for running back Darren McFadden to get through on his way to a career-high 165 yards rushing, on 16 carries.

And when center Samson Satele went down with a concussion, Veldheer aptly moved back to hiking the ball, as he did in the opener at Tennessee, and Mario Henderson went to left tackle.

“It’s always just been, especially from an offensive lineman’s thought, ‘On to the next play, on to the next series, let’s score another touchdown, let’s put some more points up there,’” Veldheer said. “So you never look up (at the scoreboard and get) satisfied. (Not) until the end of the game, when you see zeroes (on the clock) at the end of the fourth quarter and you’ve got 59 points. Then you can be happy.”

That happiness, though, will be short-lived if they do not follow it up with a solid effort against the Seahawks.


Read more: Gutierrez: Slaying Seattle a Must for Confident Cable, Raiders
Tune to SportsNet Central at 6, 10:30 and midnight on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area for more on this story
 
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Defy said:
Veldheer has been very impressive
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He was impressive this week for sure. He has been struggling until this week. He was coming downhill on some of those runs and I know the DB's were like "oh no!" The o-line had their best game by far of the year. We still have some things to clean up but I will take a W any way it comes. This one was nice.
 
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So whats the deal with Richard Seymour? Are we going to sign him or what? Even though Asomugha maybe the most talented player on our team, I believe that Seymour is the leader of our defense. He's our best D-lineman, plays the most stout, and has 3 SuperBowl rings.

It'll be a waste of a pick if he's not here the next few years.
 
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