Raider fan checking in here, just want to say hey to everyone!
first of all the reason why i think you guys only played one series is because they scored on the first series, it couldnt have gotten much better then that right? didnt look like to me that they needed to be out there much longer, they called some nice plays, got some nice 3rd down conversions, marched up the field pretty niceley and scored. once they got in the end zone, we had two nice stops, one i thought our FS stuart schweigert could have picked that off if he was a tad closer, and two, gibson was pretty close to picking it off, nice break up though! but on 3rd down, carr used his versatility and his legs to roll out against one of our OLB's, brayton, who is a big LB, around 260+ lbs, it was obvious carr had the mismatch so it made the secondary freeze and it was a TD, so to me it was an impressive drive for you guys.
as far as our offense goes, i didnt think your db's looked good at all. gabriel is currently our 4th wr, curry and porter were missing via small injuries and if gabriel did what he did, then it is something that needs to be fixed cause you guys go against some pretty good wr's this year, gabriel is no slouch, and he could honestly be starting for a few teams, but we are so deep at wr. other things on defense, you guys didnt get much pressure, but to be honest with you, our OL is amazing. we were 6th best at sacks allowed last year, and we only got better, so dont sweat it. someone mentioned and it makes a ton of sense, capers is not going to unleash all of his packages and different schemes in one game, so it was a very vanilla-esque defense if you will. we dont know if they still would ahve gotten pressure, or confused our OL, but it is a good OL, im sure if it was a regular game we would have seen more looks.
another thing, your run defense didnt look to hot either, but that could be for a number of reasons. it could be the fact that our OL is gelling and just doig really good, or the fact that when we passed pressure was not put on, so we were able to dictate the pace.
carr is a really good qb, this year he is going to truly come into his own especially with the maturity of johnson, that guy is really good! then davis is a solid back and he can do his share of time management. it just looks like you need for your defense to come arond, but as afformentioned, it could be due to the fact that it is preseason and they wont unveil all the blitz packages.
all in all, it is just preseason relax!
gotta think of the positives which were, your offense marched down the field on one drive, very effeciantly. now if they were to leave him in, we dont know if it would have happened again, or if we would have made adjustments, but it doesnt matter because capers seen what he wanted to see, a score. but defensively you guys didnt fair too well, and i really believe that the reason why is because of our offense, it really is no joke, when we are full strength with porter, moss, curry, jordan, and an amazing OL, it is gonna be awesome. if the texans D comes around they could win, i'd say 7 or 8 games this year.
