Your Oakland Raiders will play their third (and most important) preseason game tonight at home against the Green Bay Packers. Here are five things/players I will be looking forward to seeing in the game: First-team offense: This should be the group’s most extensive playing time of August. The group played sparingly in Week 1 and
Raiders vs. Packers: Five things
A few more items to watch Bill:
-With Eddy Piniero hurt, how well does Nugent do as kicker?
-Donald Penn at Right Tackle. How well does he do? New spot for him
-No injuries!
Quick historical fact: On Sunday, August 16, 1998, the Raiders with Jon Gruden played Mike Holmgren’s Packers at Lambeau. Raiders won 27-21 and Holmgren was ticked at Gruden since Raiders were blitzing even late in the game. Apparently, the young Gruden wanted to send a message to his team in order to create a culture of winning.
Good stuff, Ghost.
Last time Raiders beat the Packers in a regular season game was September 13,1987. I was at the game in Lambeau.
I need to attend to attend the next regular season game between Raiders and Packers to help the Raiders break the jinx….lol
I think our backup QBs could do more passing in terms of % vs running the ball. The backup WRs need to separate themselves from those who are seen as PS material or outright cut players.
I also think the perspective backup OL could start to sort itself out. Seeing players at multiple playing spots could be a hint.
I want to see if Cowser and Calhoun can keep it going. If they do, it could make for a very interesting final game and cutdown day.
Chris Warren III: Let’s see if we can keep impressing. I’m curious to see if/how much Gruden uses him behind the starting offensive line to get good look.