The Raiders improved to 3-2 today, a day after Al Davis’s death. It wasn’t a pretty win-McFadden was shut down for the second straight week, Campbell completed less than 50% of his passes, and the D gave up almost 500 yards to a Houston Texans team that was missing star wide out Andre Johnson-but it was a win nonetheless. One that I am sure Al Davis would have loved to of seen. The Raiders, who have had an incredibly rough schedule this season (the two losses are to Buffalo and New England) get a break of sorts as the next three games (all at home) are against the Browns, Kansas City and Denver. The Raiders can easily be 6-2 by the time they head to San Diego. Hopefully Oakland can get RUN DMC back on track though, as he has been less than spectacular the past two weeks. On a bright note Heyward-Bay, an Al Davis favorite, has had two highly productive weeks in a row and with Ford back, Murphey back any day now and Moore we are finally starting to develop a solid receiving core.  If Jackson can figure out a way to keep mixing things up and spread the ball between the four, while using Moore and Ford on some trick plays this Oakland offense should have no problem putting up some huge numbers.

The Raiders improved to 3-2 today, a day after Al Davis’s death. It wasn’t a pretty win-McFadden was shut down for the second straight week, Campbell completed less than 50% of his passes, and the D gave up almost 500 yards to a Houston Texans team that was missing star wide out Andre Johnson-but it was a win nonetheless. One that I am sure Al Davis would have loved to of seen. The Raiders, who have had an incredibly rough schedule this season (the two losses are to Buffalo and New England) get a break of sorts as the next three games (all at home) are against the Browns, Kansas City and Denver. The Raiders can easily be 6-2 by the time they head to San Diego.

Hopefully Oakland can get RUN DMC back on track though, as he has been less than spectacular the past two weeks. On a bright note Heyward-Bay, an Al Davis favorite, has had two highly productive weeks in a row and with Ford back, Murphey back any day now and Moore we are finally starting to develop a solid receiving core.  If Jackson can figure out a way to keep mixing things up and spread the ball between the four, while using Moore and Ford on some trick plays this Oakland offense should have no problem putting up some huge numbers.