Monday Night Football: SD @ OAK

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Quote: Originally Posted by Tiko7523

i take raiders for the upset! yeah i said it aso will shut down vincent jackson seymour will bring in a spark to the D mcfadden will play good and russell will show he has improved san diego will have distraction from merriman and i think they will be overlooking the raiders... i dunno i am pretty serious about this upset chargers are good tho so who really knows its just a fun guess

I'm not going to deny that this is the NFL we are talking about and like the saying goes "any given Sunday".

However, the issue with your post is that your are ignoring a couple of key facts:

1. What about Antonio Gates? The big issue with Gates this season is that he is fully healthy (as opposed to last season). Vincent Jackson has looked incredible all preseason and with him at the WR position, Gates in the middle of the field, and the two backs threatening out of the backfield, it's going to be hard for defenses to key too much on any one given position.

2. Did you watch Rivers this preseason? I hate to jinx him tonight, but he looked the best of any QB in the preseason. His throws were sharp and on time and he showed great timing with his WR for it being so early in the season.

3. The Chargers defensive front seven has so much talented depth that I don't know what defenses are going to be able to contain them for four full quarters. The Raiders offensive line is going to have their hands full tonight.

4. Speaking of offensive lines, that is the one question mark for the Chargers. How will they play in comparison to their subpar season as a group last year? The had flashes of playing well as a unit in the preseason, but they were very inconsistent. That's the only area I see that the Raiders can possibly exploit.

[LBzrule]

I'm going to have to watch this one really closely since we are in SD next week.

[Dynamite]

And there it is, Mood. You make an excuse about it being the first or only national game or whatever, but you're still going to watch it, it still sold out, and it's still fans of other teams talking about and watching the Raiders. What's hard to understand about that?

[jmood88]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dynamite

And there it is, Mood. You make an excuse about it being the first or only national game or whatever, but you're still going to watch it, it still sold out, and it's still fans of other teams talking about and watching the Raiders. What's hard to understand about that?

It's a primetime game, that's the only reason anyone would watch it. If I watch it at all it will only be parts of it and only because I like football, not because the Raiders are on. The NFL had to grant an extension to make sure it sold out, I wouldn't be proud of my team or it's fans if that happened with the Saints on Monday Night.

[tdawg3782]

Quote: Originally Posted by JBH3

Man...I need a huge night from Phillip Rivers and the S/D D/ST. Those two got to make up 66pts for me.

You think thats bad. The guy I played had Brees (36 pts), Carlson (21 pts), and Phi D (39 pts). WTF? I had the second most points scored this week in my league and I had to play this guy? Anyways. Phil needs 53 points for me to win tonight. I'm thinking 8 tds and 500+ yds. Lame.

[tdawg3782]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dynamite

Umm..need I remind you that we've been to the big game this decade...something your Saints have never done ever in their history? Talk relevance when you're known more for winning (and we certainly were until recently, short-minded NFL fans forget we were the winningest franchise in all pro sports until about 2 years ago..meaning it took 4 bad years for anyone to even come close) and being in big games than just having a good offense. You're demonstrating exactly how relevant we are, when we're down, every team's fans want to take a shot at us, ESPN runs stories about how "awful" we are and how horribly managed (in their opinion) that we are, and it's funny, if we weren't relevant, no one would care. Kind of like how the Lions are run by the worst football family in America in the Fords, and no one really hears about them. But since Mr. Davis is our owner, we have people teeing off on the team for old grudges and slights. So yeah, until all these other fans decide to keep Oakland's name out of their mouth, we're relevant. If people are talking about us, and they always are, we're relevant.

This statement isn't so much against you but I think its funny how Raider fans ALWAYS bring up championships when talking smack. Especially if the other persons team hasn't won one. I always like to rub in Charger wins against the Raiders to my Raider lovers that I work with and this is always the comeback. "Where's your championship."

Of course I always come back with "How old were you when they last won one?" Most of the time they were between not even born yet or like 6. Half of them don't even know when they won last (1983). It's just funny.

[daflyboys]

Quote: Originally Posted by Howie75

That 27-0 disgrace 3 years ago was the worst performance I have ever seen from the Oakland Raiders.

I need that for fantasy reasons this week.... that and V. Jackson having 2 of those 3 touchers!!

[Piderman]

From what im reading im actually seeing raiders and upset in the same sentence, reasonable but unlikely at best, all though i think 31 - 30 Oakland, we could pull off a nenever.