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Now, I know preseason has nothing to do with the regular season but the Oakland Raiders are a bad team. I was at the game last Saturday against the hapless Cowgirls and the game itself serves as testimony for how bad the Raiders are, specially on defense.

Even though there were several key penalties against the Raiders, they were unable to hold the Cowboys over and over again through the entire game.

Their run stopping defense is supposed to get a whole lot better with Sapp and Washington but they seem uncapable of slowing anyone down. In fact, both George as well as well as the other RB got off several nice runs both to the inside as well as the outside.

Another key aspect was they were not able to attack or pressure the quarterback at any time, both Vinny and Romo had all the time in the world to hit their receivers.

Offensively they just dont have much going except maybe the quarterback position but Wheatley and Justin Fargas both blow, and their wide receivers, are not what they used to be. In fact the only impressive part of their offense saturday was the 89 yard bomb from Collins to Doug Gabriel.

Oh and one last detail, their punting leaves alot to wish for.

As I said, it might be preseason but this team is not in any shape to win games this year.

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Of all the teams that find preseason useless, the Raiders are number #1. They have traditionally let vets rest, and that is practically all they have. Will not get many vets fired up now. I think they will turn it on once season starts. By no means am I a Raider fan, but I think this is one team it is very hard to judge from preseason performances. I will not play them out of the gate for sure. But let me see them in a couple of regular season games. Best Wishes...Slim...OF
 

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Slim you should have said this last year man...How many games in a row did they not cover? It was substancial!
 

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I actually have the Raiders as a play on team. Gannon is revitalized. Charlie ("I'm so frail") Garner and Tim (I'm a primadonna) Brown are gone so they will have more of a power offense. They have some new big monster DT free agents to shore up the D. Seb (I'm a druggie") Janekowski is finally looking accurate.
 

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