if you rush alot you get yards, nufced
Al Doesn't draft based on speed guys huh? what about - Phillip Buchanon, Nnamd Asomugha, Fabian Washington, Stanford Routt, Thomas Howard, Quentin Moses, Johnnie Lee Higgins, and John Bowie - sometimes it works, sometimes it don't
Teams that get a lot of rushing yards usually win, unless it's a fluke see above
I avoid? more like you do that backpeddler, you said Al Davis is tired of losing after 5 years, why did it take that long?
you said that if you can't rush inside then you cannot run outside, well usually teams that run well parley that into a good passing game, that didn't happen another sign the rushing was a fluke stat
you base soo much on the fact that you went from the bottom of the league to the top of the league in rushing
you know what separtated 6th in rushing from 24th in rushing a measely 30+ yards a game, your 6th in rushing is meaningless, it's what lies under those stats - like of the top rushing teams, they had the second lowest average per rush
lets break it down game by game
92 against detroit - weak - 23rd against the run
200 against Denver who was known to be HORRIFIC against the run last year 30th in the league
186 against CLE - 27th in the league against the run
299 against MIA - 32 against the run
53 against SD - where is the juggernaut rushing team against an actual defender 16th against the run
55 against KC - terrible effort against the 28th ranked team against the run
92 against TENN havent broken 100 in 3 weeks now
153 against HOU 19th against the run - lost the game - couldn't pass MCCown 48% completion - 3 picks
113 against Chicago - 30 yards by the QB McCown Scrambling only 83 by the RB's in that game another poor game
61 against minn #1 run defense stop this team
153 against KC - much better this time against one of the worst run defenses in the league
175 against Denver but everyone was running on them again 30th in the league
85 against GB 14th in the league
149 against Indy 15th in the league but they lost and it took nearly 40 attempts
110 against JAX who already had their playoffs set and it still took 30 attempts
122 in a meaningless game against SD who played no one and still lost
The only game where this "good" rushing game did anything worthwhile was against Indy in a game where it took almost 40 attempts (39) to get 149 yards in a blowout loss.
The Raiders racked up the yards against the terrible teams
1315 yards in 7 games against some of the worst rush defenses in the league for an average of 187 yds per game against those terrible teams
In the other 9 games they had 771 yards for an average of a meager 86/yds a game. Isn't that about what they averaged last year when Denver's and KC's run defenses were much better and you didn't get to put up 300 on a pitiful miami team
That 300 yards rushing against Miami really boosted the stats, didn't it
You see that means those rushing stats you hold so dear are crap. Not to mention that nearly 200 of those yards were on rushes by the QB when PASSING BROKE DOWN.
You see when you break it down you can really appreciate the sucktitude of the Raiders
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