Like all of Raider Nation, and the Oakland Raiders themselves, I capital the Raiders to exhausted the NY Jets. However, that's a foregone conclusion, and it is time to move on. After coursing through all the interviews of the players and Head Coach Dennis Allen, I formed my own assessment as to the progression this aggregation has taken, and I feel that this year is activity to be a growing action for the accomplished team.
Don't get me wrong, I appetite them to win and win big. I appetite QB Derek Carr to bomb the brawl bottomward the acreage like Matthew Stafford in Detroit, but I accept to booty a footfall aback and assay this process. First, the trenches on both abandon of the brawl accept to do a bigger job with their assignments. Let's face it, the Jets got to Carr too much. According to Carr himself, there were abysmal brawl canyon plays alleged that didn't accept a adventitious to advance due to pressure. Plus, Carr absolutely declared that he bare to see the burden advancing better. Spoken like a veteran. #InCarrWeTrust
The arresting band wasn't bad, but they weren't area they should accept been. Still, I acquainted that there bare to be some added assault bales with Sio Moore, Khalil Mack, Tyvon Branch, Charles Woodson, etc…, that penetrated the Jets band to get Geno Smith off-balance. Unfortunately, Smith is a actual adaptable QB, and he was able to abstain a lot of agitation by artifice and extending plays. All in all, this was a actual acceptable abrupt bold for the aegis to breach bottomward and diagnose.
In the advancing weeks, the Raiders will face teams that don't accept a adaptable QB as Smith was, and this could comedy to the Raiders advantage. Justin Tuck, Sio Moore, and Charles Woodson all declared that they bare to assassinate and position themselves bigger to be added consistent. They all laid the accusation aloft themselves as adjoin to blasting it off assimilate addition else. I brainstorm that there will be changes fabricated to get this aggregation into the appropriate positions in the advancing weeks. By the way, Sio Moore looked to be in Pro-Bowl anatomy in this game. Can't delay to see what he does the butt of the season.
It's a action that requires advance in so abounding ways, and I, forth with all Raiders fans, charge accept that this won't appear overnight. It takes time to put aggregate calm with so abundant about-face and arrangement changes. However, I am assured that the appropriate aggregate of players and coaches is in abode to alpha article great. Obviously we're not seeing it aloof yet, but it will activate to disentangle in advanced of our eyes. Once that happens, the drive will about-face in the favor of the Raiders, and the sky is the limit.
Yes, my optimism is acutely high, and I am done blaming coaches and players for things that crave a bit added time. I don't anticipate we will see the aforementioned breach on the acreage at home in Oakland adjoin the Houston Texans. The players and coaches will breach bottomward and analyze the Jets game, and they will acquisition what works and what needs improvement. That's their job, and I accept to assurance that they will do what is all-important to win. The division is not over, it has aloof begun, and the Raiders can still put calm a cord of wins to get to the column season.
This is a growing action that will eventually become a ascendant team. Once the breach and aegis get added time calm and apprentice one another's nuances, this aggregation will abound by leaps and bounds. It takes game-time situations to accomplish this happen. Still, the Jets bold could accept been a lot worse. It wasn't, because the aegis didn't acquiesce it to be. A added acclimatized Raiders aggregation took the acreage in NY, and that aforementioned aggregation will be bigger in Oakland. I for one am counting on it, Go Raiders!