Redskins vs Raiders Pregame thread

I was picking Oak until Pryor got hurt and now even if he does play I dont think he will be 100% and that is what will make the difference. The Skins get their first win of the year.

I'm with you. Things look dark but IMO we will rebound. My only fear regards our rebound being "too little, too late."

The schedule is really tough this year, but until the Redskins win a game, we really don't know what kind of team they are. Can they beat the Cowboys, Giants and Eagles? Sure. Will they? Who knows right now. Can they beat the Broncos? Probably not, but they may be able to beat the 49ers, so its all just up in the air. Until they figure out how to play more disciplined, error-free football, they will continue to lose.

Good post, I think we will right the ship & finish 10-6.So we have 13 games remaining and need to go 10-3. Who do we beat with a sieve of a defense and a disjointed offense:

@ DEN, @ ATL, KC, Bears....I don't see it
Cross country @ OAK, @ DAL....doubtful

SD, @ MIN, @ PHI, SF, NYG, DAL, @ NYG.....50/50 for these games, I'll give us homerism and say we go 4-3 in these, plus steal either @ OAK or @ DAL. That leaves us at 5-8 for the remaining games and 5-11 for the season.

At least we're helping the Rams compete out West.

Yep, we'll help the Rams get a whole lot better if they draft right then they can all beat the piss out of each other in the AFC west. Long term but a bright side. but not really.

the skins in a blow out.

skins 37
raiders 13

but the real losers of sunday's contest will be the raiders' fans.

Mike isn't going anywhere this team was crap before he got here, he has added young talent that we haven't had in a long time. Yeah the secondary sucks and Oline needs better talent. We had no money this offseason to improve either area, bottom line we are missing a few more key pieces and our QB is coming off major knee surgery. Last was a great season but by no means were we a top tier team, we had to win 7 in a row to win the division. Synder would be dumb to fire Mike, if I was him I would extend him during the bye week to make all this talk go away. Now firing Haslet and shaking up coaching staff I could see, but no to firing Mike.

That is exactly the way I feel about where the rebuilding of the Skins stands. I think that we have been set back by the unfair cap penalties and the serious injury to our Franchise QB.

With those two major impediments in mind, I came into this season feeling that I would be satisfied with whatever I could get out of the Skins this season. I still feel that way.

I anticipate that we'll add some top talent in free agency and have another good draft before next season. By that time, RGIII should be fully recovered. Then I'll expect much more.

In no way has anything that has happened so far this season shaken my faith in the direction the franchise is heading or in the primary people who are leading the way, namely Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen.

On the other hand, I would have no problem if the coordinators were to leave and be replaced. I was never a fan of Haslett. IMO, he hasn't done a good enough job to be retained. As for Kyle, if there is in fact fundamental disagreement between Kyle and Mike about how the offense should be run, then Kyle should do the right thing and find another job after this season.

The Rat (shanahan's nickname in Oak) comes where he started, he has had success against the Raiders in the past, let's hope it happens again.

So I came out here in your neck of the woods to watch this crappy game. I assume I'm safe wearing Skins gear to Alameda?

If Joe Webb could rip apart our defense-- which was better in 2011 than our defense is right now--why can't Pryor who is more athletic and looks more like a QB? Also, why would we think anybody playing us can't beat us? The only team in the NFL I would go into a game saying "We can stop them," is Jacksonville. Oakland has some good players on their team--a lot of them are better than our starters. They also lost to Denver by 2 scores in Denver. I think we'll be very lucky to lose to Denver by 2 scores.

Yeah the Raiders are saying exactly what you're thinking. It's going to be close.

who is going to the game?

I am. On vacation here for 6 days....

An away game to Oakland is being televised in Baltimore, yet a home game against Detroit isn't?
Now that the cramps and pain of being 0-3 are over, it's my time of the month- to watch the monthly win. I'm frying up pickles before the game and watching the 1st full game of the year (unless Kyle scripts 50 passes and Haslett is doing whatever he does en route to a blowout).
It's got to start and end with Alfred