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They were spelling him in and out the entire game given how sick he was during the week, and were trying to save him.
Yeah I take that as he is not demonstrating he can handle catching the ball as opposed to, "Let's get him involved in the pass game." But it is weird because he has not had much opportunity to catch the ball. Gruden is more confusing than a crazy hot girl.
PFF just graded him out as their second-highest graded rookie. I don't know what to tell you about game scripts. YMMV and who knows?
think I agree here... offensive line is doing really well and IND has been pretty crap against the run. I just hope he gets some targets because IND has not been great at defending pass-catching RBs either.
It's unprecedented. But the NFL loves setting effed up precedents against the Raiders. It's become par for their course at this point. Just gotta account for it and adjust expectations accordingly if you're a Raider fan or fantasy owner of Raider players. I mean we're talking about the team that set the Tuck Rule, the Calvin Johnson catch rule, and the post-snap kicker freeze rule into place with calls against them to lose games in key moments of seasons - and the team that has finished top 3 in penalties every year for like 30 years straight across multiple coaching regimes.
Certain teams that generate the revenue get the breaks while the bias against the Raiders continues. Sadly though, the NFL doesn't need to do anything though to make sure the team is lousy. The team does itself no favors with how they handle players, such as Mack or Cooper, or with their drafting year after year. The team should be called the Reachers.
He's actually someone I thought of so highly that he and Shady McCoy are the two links between my two teams that I care most about. He looks good for a rookie, and will only get better when he's not seeing exclusively stacked boxes. I thought he was going to break one or two today, and won't be surprised when he does just that.Stompin' Tom Connors said:
This should not have been a game where he would have positive game script, but it's London.
While Josh Jacobs sat out his second straight practice with a sore shoulder Thursday, the rookie running back plans on suiting up Sunday in Houston. "It would have to be broke for me not to play," he said.
I think you are being a pessimist. He has plenty of volume with regards to touches. He is the goal line back. The Raiders are playing well and it is because they are going through Jacobs. Sure it would be better if he was getting some receptions and utilization in the passing game but his production is outstanding just as he is being used. He has a very high floor with the potential for multiple TD's any given week. He is as safe as they come right now. His only concern is injury and overuse with possibly hitting the "rookie wall".
I didn't see the game and didn't see that he got pulled but if they pulled him late in the third quarter it's probably because they didn't want him to get hurt in garbage time. He's already had a lot of touches for a rookie, especially one who never had a huge workload in college. This is uncharted territory for him.
I doubt it. It looked like Gruden gave up and started getting his starters out of there to avoid unnecessary injuries. The fact that Carr was also pulled supports that it was just a give up situation.
