Throw It Back! Raiders 17, Cowboys 9

he needs more work on his……..? heheheheehh

all on the first drive

Romo just falling down and taking a sack because no one was open. One sack was genuine. Lamarr Houston is no joke and that Raiders d-line is decent.

I think if it were a real game, we might have seen Romo try some Romo magic.

Also Dallas did not game plan for the Raiders, if they had, Romo may have rolled out of the pocket or they would have kept an extra blocker in to help with pressure from Houston. In a REAL game, it would have never happened. Don’t lose any sleep over it.

It was their Super Bowl.

Let’s not forget, its his second season and his first was mostly a redshirt year. I think he’s coming around well. We need him game ready (hopefully) a year from now when he’s the #2.

McCann looked good. Better than Wall.

All of his additions just felt pointless. Like he was saying something just to say something.

Well, the interviews were okay, as okay as you can expect an in game interview to be I guess, but everything before that was useless.

i got stuck listening to raiders announcers on local TV

just at the start of the 2nd quarter, the cowboys seemed like they were pulling starters. but the raiders were keeping theirs in. then we see the boys barely get their starters back in on 2nd down. couple plays later on that 4th and 1 the announcers said “oh the cowboys put their starters back in on that 4th and 1 … they didnt want to give it up”

it was so painful because not only were the starters in for at least 2 plays. so much bias on top of bad broadcasting i just couldnt watch and listen to it.

best line i heard was when he insulted felix jones by calling him julius jones.

If you are the raiders, you know what Boller is, The only reason to play the second string qb against fourth – sixth stringers is to try and win the game. The game that doesn’t count.

This is so you can get your fans behind the team earlier. As reported by some of the Raiders broadcast, they are using this to try and convince thier fans the team isn’t going to suck.

However, they will definitely suck, every team that plays them will look at this film and see how to play them early. Because the raiders called plays to beat the cowboys. They will not watch for the cowboys because they played vanilla and worked on plays to see if a particular player can execute them, not because the particular play can beat the raiders.

Good nickname?

Haven’t seen any evidence that kicking field goals has affected Buehler’s kickoffs, either.

And reading his own press clippings, thinking he’ll make the team based on his play last year.

Although, I’ve noticed Leon making good plays on defense and ST. But you’re right about the team wanting to improve in the takeaway dept might put more weight on that INT he dropped. He’s still on of the bubble boys.

I didn’t get the TD call either, the guy only got one foot in. Unless they said he had another body part in, that’s equal to two feet, I don’t know.

I think Raf is right… everyone looked pretty tired.

Asomugha (sp) is a dang good CB. Roy earned a few points in my book by making sure the pick didn’t happen.

but i must have dozed off and missed it.

coverage sack than anything.

I think he’d agree with you.

went way up field on one play when the rec turned back in and had a huge cushion. only bad things I noticed, he looks like a football player with his uniform and helmet on.

I was optimistic about Olgetree but he’s not as good as he was last year, it seems to me, and thats a drag

I hope Ogletrees problem is having too much on his plate and not thinking he makes it off of last year. I expected him to struggle some after hearing in minicamps they wanted him to learn all 3 WRs positions

I jumped on his bandwagon early last year and I’ve been disappointed with some of the comments I’ve heard this year about his attitude. I think we should be careful about thinking we know what’s going through his head. Few (if any) of us have ever met the guy or been close at all. What we interpret as laziness or cockiness could just be lack of comfort in what they’re asking him to do. I would really like this guy to stick.

Ogletree was a 7th round pick. It was always a longshot that he would become a starting caliber NFL WR (and please spare me the comments that I hate low picks or that Miles Austin was an UDFA, it’s not relevant. I don’t hate low picks and I know that low picks pan out … it’s just a low probability)

It’s borderline delusional the way Cowboy’s fans think it’s likely that Ogletree will be a pro-bowl player on the basis of TC and 12 targets or whatever he had last year.

I’m from Virginia and I love the Cowboys so I’d like nothing more than to see Ogletree turn into the next Rod Smith but that was always unlikely.

and they keep trying to experiment with 6th and 7th rounders who can’t get the job done.

press it.

I think I’ve lost my hearing.

The 49 yarder was dead center

All kicks dead on, tons of touchbacks. Heck, he was even voted the MVP of the game(this was before the last FG and pick six though)

Dallas’ scrimping on o-line costs them a shot in the playoffs?

The TE situation has probably saved Cricket’s job, and other than him, who else?

They let Flo and Hamlin go already. That’s it, me thinks.

we would be in so much sh!t ,we would make BP look good..

but it was pretty boreing to the regular fan.

I realkly think this defense is going to be top-shelf this season

1) Our front 7 depth is among the best in the league, if every single starter in the front-7 went down we could still be competitive. I don’t know if there are any other teams that could say that.

2) Our recievers aren’t THAT great. They got shut down at times by the Raiders’ secondary. Now the plays were vanilla to be sure, but when it’s our WR corps execution vs. their secondary’s execution, we came up short.

3) This team goes as far as the offensive line takes them. I think it’s clear where the weak link in Dallas is. This will be the theme all year.

4) Buehler is going to be the man. His 42 yard field goal would have been good from 62. He’s 5-for-6 with his only miss being a long 49 yarder. This is exactly what you’re looking for from a kicker, this is absolutely good. Add the leg strength on kickoffs and you have a franchise kicker.

5) Bryan McCann is making the transition from doing the things that are successful at the college level to doing the things that are successful at the pro level. Jamar Wall is not.

6) The reported sophmore slump for Ogletree is real. The lights are on but nobody’s home.

Was it right after that interview that Babe said something like, “The preseason season’s to see who gets hurt.”

I think that plan makes the most sense.

but I think they would have to carry more players. A lot needs to be worked out and the union would have to ok it in the new contract.

But they would have two weeks less training camp. That’s a pretty big chip.

like jerry has thrown this idea out there to gauge reaction from fans-union and tv .

if he’s got enough pride, maybe it’ll motivate him.

until the smoke detector goes off.

Well, that’s what my ex-wife told me anyways.

LOL

The season is fine the way it is

And the preseason is a necessary evil in my opinion…

On one sack.

The other two you can blame on coverage/Romo. But one of those sacks was Colombo getting beat around the edge the exact same way he got beat over and over again against the Vikings.

I don’t want to knee jerk, but I wouldn’t rule out seeing the Alex Baron show at right tackle this year. Colombo isn’t inspiring confidence that he’s making a come back.

Let’s go after an unhappy Logan Mankins and make Kosier the swing guy.

Our tackles are inconsistent, but the interior depth is even worse.

Holland is it. And McCann reallly impressed me as well.

In this league, the 4th CB has to be ready to go. He has to be ready to go because starters go down all the time and 3-4 WR sets are used very frequently.

My bias is always towards potential, but at that spot you have to have a guy that inspires confidence as much as potential. That’s why McCann’s preseason is so important. Can he be a confidence inspiring player in the next 3 seasons or is he inconsistant?

Gordon’s injury was a blow to his chances. From the reports of TC, Gordon sounded like the slight favorite to win the spot, but not good enough to feel comfortable yet. My impression of McCann is that he’s been the best player of the remaining CB’s. Wall is still struggling too much right now, hope he can improve, but he’s looking like a PS candidate. Teddy Williams has the rare gift of blazing speed and quickness to go with size (he’s listed at 6’3"), but he’s got some catching up to do (he might be under the radar enough to clear waivers and go to the PS also). Gordon wasn’t anything special, so any time he misses really works against him.