If it touches your hands, you need to catch it. Some of the blame needs to be placed on bad throws due to instant pressure on the quarterbacks, but some of it falls on the receiver. Jacoby Ford had at least one drop, Higgins had a couple and Murphy had his fair share as well. I chalk this up to simply having two weeks off due to injury and a bye week. I don't know what Zach Miller's problem was on Sunday, but he had several uncharacteristic drops. In all, a respectable day for the Raiders' run defense.Ĭhaz Schilens has done nothing more than take up a roster spot. Taking away Roethlisberger's scramble yards, the Steelers running backs gained 88 rushing yards on 29 designed run plays, which is an average of just 3.03 yards per carry. 55 of those yards came from Ben Roethlisberger scrambling and picking up yards with his feet.ġ7 of the Steelers' rushing yards came on a an end-around by Mike Wallace that should have been negated for an illegal block in the back of Kamerion Wimbley by right tackle Flozell Adams. The Steelers earned a total of 162 yards on the ground, but that number is deceptive. He scored on a five yard touchdown, but holding Mendenhall to 2.56 yards per carry is a good day for the defense. Rashard Mendenhall gained only 59 yards on 23 carries. Stopping the run and not allowing the play-action pass to get set up was important for the Raiders and they got it done. The Steelers are not a "run first" team anymore, but they have been more effective running the ball lately. Rashard Mendenhall gained only 59 yards on Sunday. There will be no "sugar-coating" of my critique. Therefore, I'll cover what positives there were and finish out the article with what went wrong. I am supposed to be writing about the positive aspects of the Raiders' performance, but I wouldn't know what to put on the other eight slides. The ejection of Richard Seymour seemed to fire up the Raider defense, only to be let down by the offense-again! The first drive of the game as the exception, the defensive players had no time to rest or hydrate after forcing several three-and-outs. On the bright side, the defense played fairly well, but got no help whatsoever from the offense. They looked like a collection of guys off the street that didn't care about each other, the team or the fans. This loss for the Raiders wouldn't have been so bad if the Raider offense actually looked like an NFL team, but they didn't. The play calling was horrible, the effort from the offensive line was pathetic and the overall performance of the offense was worse than it has been since the "49ers debacle." I must say, as a Raider fan for nearly 38 years, I was disgusted with the way the offense, (the offensive line in particular) performed in this critically important game. No fire, no passion and no offense sums up the Oakland Raiders 35-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Neither Raider quarterback got any help from the offensive line.
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