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With the Raiders ready to exit Oakland after 2018 if/when Oakland files a lawsuit against the Raiders for exiting Oakland, the Raiders need a home for 2019.

But the team’s eventual new home won’t be its short-term new home. Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas will not be the venue in which the Raiders play while waiting for their new venue to be completed.

So where will the Raiders play in 2019, if they’ll no longer be playing in Oakland? The most sensible option would be to play at Levi’s Stadium, but the stubbornness of the 49ers and Raiders may prevent that from happening. San Antonio has expressed interest in hosting the Raiders, and there’s still an NFL-caliber stadium in San Diego.

Los Angeles would be an intriguing option, but the Rams and Chargers surely wouldn’t be interested in having the Raiders infringe on their turf for a season, even if a viable location for playing the Raiders’ home games could be found in that market.

“It’s in our minds, but it’s really in the back of our minds right now,” owner Mark Davis said in late August. “We’re really concerned about 2018. Obviously, 2019 won’t be in Las Vegas, but it may have to be somewhere.”

Yes, it will indeed have to be somewhere, especially if Oakland ends up not being that somewhere a year earlier than anticipated.
 

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Only 4 sacks this season....how to fix our ailing pass rush with no big name player like Mack?

What happened to our supposed Double A Gap 4-3 Defense that we're borrowing from the Vikings/Bengals??

That formation/system is supposed to see us stacking the A gaps constantly, and faking which extra one or two (from inside or outside) we send from down to down. The mere uncertainty of it engendering sacks/pressure in spite of talent. Why we installed this system.

I don't see us running it often or at all.
 
GG.exe said:
Only 4 sacks this season....how to fix our ailing pass rush with no big name player like Mack?

What happened to our supposed Double A Gap 4-3 Defense that we're borrowing from the Vikings/Bengals??

That formation/system is supposed to see us stacking the A gaps constantly, and faking which extra one or two (from inside or outside) we send from down to down. The mere uncertainty of it engendering sacks/pressure in spite of talent. Why we installed this system.

I don't see us running it often or at all.
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I got some faith. We have a new Dline except for Irvin so it's still getting it together. As long as they don't pay stupid penalties like the roughing the passer like they did on Key.

We seem to be playing a four two, sometimes everyone on the line til the ball is snapped or lots of position changing.
It's fooling me.

Even Mack has trouble against San Angeles. Those tackles should have been penalized often for holding. Instead nothing happened and Rivers would get a good throw away.
 

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Why Raiders’ face-plant against Chargers raises serious questions
Owner Mark Davis hired Jon Gruden to team with Derek Carr and put miserable performances in the past

By JERRY MCDONALD | jmcdonald@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: October 7, 2018 at 6:05 pm | UPDATED: October 7, 2018 at 6:52 pm

The Los Angeles Chargers didn’t even need to make a final statement Sunday, running out the clock near the goal line rather than ramming in one final indignity against a Raiders team that was beaten in every way possible.

The final score was 26-10 in Carson, and it wasn’t that close. It was the worst nightmare for owner Mark Davis, who brought back Jon Gruden specifically to avoid these types of non-competitive games.

Davis wants to win, but what he absolutely loathes is the embarrassing loss. A no-show in London against Miami sealed Dennis Allen’s doom in 2014. A 52-0 loss in St. Louis against the Rams meant Tony Sparano, a coach and a person Davis sincerely liked, wouldn’t advance beyond interim head coach.

Jack Del Rio made the team more competitive for two seasons, but when the Raiders collapsed last year — a Week 3 drubbing in Washington started the avalanche — Davis brought back the man he had long coveted to fix things for good.

Together, Gruden and franchise quarterback Derek Carr would set things right as the Raiders ended their second era in Oakland before leaving for Las Vegas.

But things weren’t anywhere close to fixed before a crowd that may have been three-quarters Raiders fans.

During a 1-3 start, the Raiders nevertheless had some glimmers of progress. Then, a week after their first win, pretty much everything that’s been bad about Raiders football for 14 of the last 15 years was back on center stage.

It starts with Gruden and quarterback Derek Carr, the two key pieces in the organization as head coach and CEO quarterback. The duo had their worst game together against the Chargers, with the lowlight a first-and-goal interception by Carr while trailing 20-3 with the Raiders at the 1-yard line and 1:13 left in the third quarter.

It’s the play everyone will zero in on, and it deserves all the criticism it gets. Yet even if Lynch had been given the ball and scored, there was would have been a 10-point deficit and little indication the Raiders were up to a comeback.

Carr’s numbers (24 of 33 for 268 yards, a touchdown and an interception) were deceiving,and the red zone turnovers are costing his team games.

The Raiders didn’t score a touchdown until their ninth and final possession when the game was already out of reach, and had the ball only three times in the second half. When the Raiders did have the ball, there appeared to be little sense of urgency to get to the line of scrimmage, kick the tempo up a notch and make a go of it.

In the first half, the Raiders defense had three very good series which were immediately followed by the offense doing next to nothing. Momentum was waiting to be seized and Carr and Co. were not up to the challenge.

Some of it had to do with having a pair of rookie tackles in Kolton Miller and Brandon Parker, the latter making his first start, and making sure protections were called correctly. Both struggled. Yet the Chargers were without both of their starting tackles (Russell Okung and Joe Barksdale) and that didn’t prevent Philip Rivers (22 of 27 for 339 yards, 2 TDs, no interceptions) from carving up the Raiders defense.

There were two plays in the game that had no bearing on the outcome but were symbolic when it comes to the Raiders over the last 15-plus years.

The first was a no-doubt-about-it roughing the passer penalty on Bruce Irvin as time expired that gave Caleb Sturgis a 48-year-old field goal attempt on an untimed down. Strugis missed it.

The second came after 38-year-old tight end tight end Antonio Gates successfully blocked linebacker Marquel Lee. Lee took exception and pushed Gates, drawing an unnecessary roughness penalty to give the Chargers a first down with 3:25 left.

In both instances, it was a loss of poise and discipline, one by a veteran and one by a second-year player.

Losing is one thing, but losing the way the Raiders lost to the Chargers is something more. A little more than a year ago, a 27-10 road drubbing against Washington was a game that served notice that something was wrong within their DNA, and ultimately it culminated in the 11th season of double-digit losses in 15 years.

At 1-4, it appears making it 12 of 16 is possible if not probable. At no point did the Raiders look like a team that could win six of their last 10 games and get to 7-9.

A road trip to London to “host” the Seattle Seahawks is next, and we’ll soon know whether the Raiders are capable of fixing a a flat tire or two or if the wheels have come off entirely.
 
Jon Gruden: I’ll call more passes on the goal line
Posted by Josh Alper on October 9, 2018, 6:36 AM EDT
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After Sunday’s loss to the Chargers, Raiders head coach Jon Gruden said that quarterback Derek Carr “just presses at some moments” while discussing the interception the quarterback threw on first-and-goal from the lip of the end zone.

Gruden revisited that play during a Monday press conference and made it clear that his issue was with the execution rather than not handing the ball off to Marshawn Lynch. Gruden referenced the most famous time Lynch was passed over in that spot while saying that he’s not going to lock himself into any play call should the moment present itself again.

“It won’t be the last pass I call on first-and-goal, either,” Gruden said, via ESPN.com. “I think that’s the best time to throw down there. I regret that it was intercepted. Turns out to be a horrible call. But we were down 20-3, Melvin Ingram is their middle linebacker in a jammed front, I want to throw a play-action pass on the 1-foot line. My opinion is, it shouldn’t have been intercepted; we shouldn’t do that right down there, but we did. We were down 20-3, OK? We were down 20-3. It wasn’t the last play of the Super Bowl. We were down 20-3.”

On the last play of the Super Bowl, there was certainly different time considerations to take into account than there were in Week Five against the Chargers but one can understand Gruden’s desire to keep opponents guessing in similar situations down the line.

One wonders how often Gruden will go to the well with Carr, however. This is the second time in five games that he’s publicly criticized the quarterback for his decision making near the end zone, which would certainly seem to be something to take into account when calling plays in the future.
 
Worley looked good. Possibly coz he was fresh. He could start on the outside. Conley might be better suited to playing the slot. His running style seems to get him beaten early and he can't always catch up.
Someone needs to " borrow" RNelsons passport in England so he can't come back. He might be familiar with the D but he can't implement it. Got one lucky INT.
 
Let's trade everyone.

Karl Joseph, safety, Oakland Raiders

Top 10 trade candidate



Coach Jon Gruden's scouting style has led to a divide in the Raiders' building, with general manager Reggie McKenzie's high-profile draft picks twisting in the wind. It seems premature to pull the plug on top 2017 pick Gareon Conley after the cornerback lost his job to Daryl Worley, but Joseph, a 2016 first-rounder, fell out of favor before the season even started. Attrition has left holes at safety in Philadelphia, Tampa Bay and Indianapolis, among other locales.

In the near future, the Raiders will need to decide whether or not they want to give a contract extension to Cooper. If the answer is no, then the next option may be to trade the former No. 4 overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft.
 
GG.exe said:
Interesting fact i read 2 days ago...

The Top 10 WRs -- Brown, Hopkins, Green, OBJ, Julio, Adams, Hill, Cooks, Thomas, Landry -- have been targeted twice more than Cooper has. Who’s to blame for it? :think:
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Carr looks for Cook coz he knows he's his ( Carr's) best option for a completion. I expect us to run the ball a lot in London.
 
FOX Sports' Jay Glazer reports the Raiders are shopping Amari Cooper.

Jon Gruden isn't done cleaning house after trading Khalil Mack. Cooper has been inconsistent after a down 2017, but it's hard to see the Raiders making such a franchise-changing move. Oakland is also calling teams about 2016 first-rounder Karl Joseph. It's telling that both players are repped by the same agent as Mack. Cooper is signed through 2019 after the Raiders picked up his fifth-year option.

Source: FOX Sports
 
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