Not sure about the coach. Maybe with Bowman at MLB now he can use his experience to run the D . New guy seems to have a good idea already on what's going on.
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Obi is training with the corners. He had 4 INTs in his last year at school.
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We only have Sean Smith, Dexter McDonald and TJ Carrie at the corner positions who are healthy right now. That's why Obi is getting time there. I wouldn't expect Obi to get many snaps this week, will be introduced very slowly.
Watching UCLA and UTAH game. Be worth copying some of their plays. Unpredictable is good.
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Baltimore, Buffalo, Denver and KC have all lost this week. We desperately need to win today to get ourselves firmly back in the wildcard race.
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We really have no luck/are poor at picking CBs in the draft lately.
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WR drops/Scatback runs up the guts out of shotgun/3rd down passes behind the line of scrimmage. This OC is the greatest.
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We haven't exactly drafted many lately. Right now our top 2 corners are out (Amerson and Conley). Conley would make this secondary look a lot better.
I'm not a fan of Downing, but the play calling was somewhat better tonight. Every time Carr throws beyond a dink and dunk system we look much better as an offense. Run game showed better signs today as well.
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Conley seems injury prone, hope that is not a long term thing. And of course old mate DJ Hayden.
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I'm excited that I'm now contributing to The Raider Ramble. Please take the time to check out my article on there https://raiderramble.com/2017/11/04/where-did-it-go-wrong-raiders/
How do you come to the conclusion that Conley is injury prone? He didn't miss time in college.
How do you come to the conclusion that Conley is injury prone? He didn't miss time in college.
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Since we drafted him, what's he played, 2 games? More hoping is not a sign of things to come.
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It's been one injury, it hasn't been a series of injuries that has kept him out. It's not going to affect him in the long run. Not concerned about Conley one bit. He's going to be a massive help going forward.
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Raiders right now are :-
27th Total Defense
24th Passing Defense
25th Rushing Defense
29th Total Sacks
32nd Total Interceptions
27th Total Forced Fumbles
31st In Stopping 3rd Down Conversions.
How does Ken Norton Jr keep his job?
27th Total Defense
24th Passing Defense
25th Rushing Defense
29th Total Sacks
32nd Total Interceptions
27th Total Forced Fumbles
31st In Stopping 3rd Down Conversions.
How does Ken Norton Jr keep his job?
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Been a calamity of issues this season with our defense from a personnel standpoint. Extremely difficult when Amerson and Conley get injured, Obi gets a long term injury, whilst Sean Smith gets arrested and is looking at jail time if he doesn't get off on his assault charge. So it's been a real cluster * piled up there. Not really sure we could have expected much more than what we're getting.
The biggest stat you've left out is that we're 21st in points per game against (23.8 per game). This ironically is better than the lauded Broncos D, and only 1.4 points per game worse than what the Patriots D has delivered so far this year.
The D has done their job ok this year. They are certainly not the reason why we are 4-5, and have kept us in every game this season.
Obi looked ok even tho wasn't out there much. Amerson should be back for Mexico. Our LBs are starting to look better. If we can get the same starters out there for a run of games they should be more effective.
They only have limited training before the next game but tackling should be first on the list.
They only have limited training before the next game but tackling should be first on the list.
If we are looking for a new OC Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma U would be a good get. Kind of guy who could improve everyone. Has a link to Crabtree.
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Riley wouldn't go to the pros unless it was for a head coaching job.
Now that Downing is likely to get till the end of the season, let's see how he goes the rest of the year. His past gameplan against the Fins was imo his best of the season.
Good test next game. A lot of our players need to do better also. No more stupid penalties.
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Been pretty good for penalties all year really. Going to need to be near perfect to beat the Pats this week though. Need to win the special teams battle to have any chance in hell.
I like the Raider Ramble. Some other things online suffer from writers that seem to have a deadline and just rehash filler.
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Raiders placed CB Gareon Conley (shin) on injured reserve, ending his season.
Conley showed up to Raiders camp in the spring with a shin injury and never got over it. He did hold his own in Weeks 2-3 appearances, then suffered a setback. The 24th overall pick in April's draft, Conley should still have a bright future if he can overcome the injury bug. He bookended Marshon Lattimore at Ohio State and at times impressed even more than Lattimore on college tape.
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Conley showed up to Raiders camp in the spring with a shin injury and never got over it. He did hold his own in Weeks 2-3 appearances, then suffered a setback. The 24th overall pick in April's draft, Conley should still have a bright future if he can overcome the injury bug. He bookended Marshon Lattimore at Ohio State and at times impressed even more than Lattimore on college tape.
Source: Field Yates on Twitte
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Awesome
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Too bad the Raiders and Conley refuse to be open and honest about his injury. What is there to gained by keeping the injury a secret?
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Sorry, but "shin splints" just doesn't do it for me. May as well say he's on IR due to "cold symptoms".
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Reggie lied. Conley tweeted a couple months ago that said the shin splints story wasn't true. I think he has a stress fracture, and he probably had a surgery that went bad and isn't healing right. Probably needs another surgery. Just spell it out for the fans.
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Sorry, but "shin splints" just doesn't do it for me. May as well say he's on IR due to "cold symptoms".
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Reggie lied. Conley tweeted a couple months ago that said the shin splints story wasn't true. I think he has a stress fracture, and he probably had a surgery that went bad and isn't healing right. Probably needs another surgery. Just spell it out for the fans.
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Yeah I like the way the Ramble is building that's for sure. In the process of writing my second piece for them, should be up by the end of the week. They give me as a writer leniency to free wheel and write pretty much whatever I'm interested in on the Raiders, which is much better than being pigeon-holed into certain topics that other blogger sites do.
Amerson still not training.
