Rams would suggest After Week 1 against the Los Angeles Rams Youth Derek Carr Jersey , the NFL doesn’t think much of Jon Gruden and the Oakland Raiders. The 33-13 score indicates one of the best teams in the NFL blew out one of the worst. But if you saw the game, it was more of a sudden collapse by one of the least likely players the Raiders could get that from. The Raiders are now rebuilding on defense so Gruden planned to control and win the game on offense. The offensive game plan was flawless with a mixture of runs to running back Marshawn Lynch and passes to tight end Jared Cook. And Carr executed it well, completing 20-24 passes for 199 yards and what should have been a touchdown in the first half.But Carr, who has thrown so many dimes in the red zone over his career, started his collapse at the end of the first half in the red zone Monday night. With 4:51 left in the half, moving the ball at will and on the Rams’ 21 yard line, he threw the ball woefully short and it was picked off. The momentum would have been with the Raiders and they might have made a stop had they scored a TD but the Rams rode the momentum to a field goal, making the score 13-10. The halftime score could very well have been 20-7 instead of 13-10.The defense that just lost super-duper star edge rusher Khalil Mack wasn’t too bad at the time either. Then came the second half and the Rams cashed in their first drive of the second half with a field goal to tie the game. The Raiders then went three and out with Carr getting sacked on his own 13 yard line and punter Johnny Townsend picks a bad time for a 35-yard punt. So the Rams take advantage of the short field and go up 20-13.A little later http://www.raidersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-justin-ellis-jersey , down 23-13, Carr seemed to be pulling himself back together and completed a 32-yard pass to Cook to get the Raiders to the Rams 40. Then Carr inexplicably threw floatertoward his left sideline that was picked off. The Rams then turned that into a field goal and the score was 26-13. Then of course, there’s the pick-6 Carr threw the next time he had the ball to make the score 33-13. Everyone around the league is talking about how bad the Raiders are but they were in the game against one of the best teams in the NFL on paper. The Rams may be better but it wasn’t about the better pulling away in the second half after taking the Raiders’ best punch. The Raiders never had a problem moving the ball on offense and even without Mack, the defense was pretty good until they had to go back and defend short fields on no rest due to the turnovers. Carr actually picked the best defense the Raiders will face this year apart when he didn’t turn the ball over, going 29-40 for 303 yards with no TDs and three picks, including a pick-6. If not for a “bad throw”, “bad decision” and “miscommunication”, the NFL would be saying great things about the Carr and Raiders. Monday night’s collapse wasn’t even a case of the Rams making adjustments. They didn’t do much different in the second half than the first so Carr was not confused. “To be honest Rodney Hudson Jersey , we did some of the same stuff but we executed better in the first half. They tried to do some things a little bit different, but nothing that mattered,” Carr said after the game. “They tried to put different looks for the run game, different looks for the pass game, but nothing that we didn’t prepare for. Some of the things that we did are going to be overlooked by the bad stuff and it sucks. That’s tough. We did a lot of good things, the score doesn’t really dictate what the game was. It’s just a bad feeling. It just sucks, man.”It got ugly from the end of the first half to the end of the game and the final score was bad. But Raiders went toe to toe with one of the best teams in the NFL with Carr of all people giving it away. So there’s no reason for anyone to believe they are that bad of team. Gruden and Carr will learn from this and things will need to get better in a hurry.Yeah, like next week in Denver.Five keys to the Raiders breaking the Broncos Victory eluded the Oakland Raiders against the Los Angeles Rams in the season opener. Meanwhile Authentic Kelechi Osemele Jersey , the Denver Broncos won a close game against the Seattle Seahawks. A win over the Broncos on the road would do wonders to quiet some of the noise surrounding the Raiders. Here are the keys to doing that.Derek Carr must re-master himself — When under pressure Carr becomes a shell of the quarterback he can be. He must quiet the footsteps and noise from ghosts in his mind and allow the play to develop. Pressure Case Keenum — The Broncos went out and got a journeyman at the quarterback position. The veteran is solid but when pressured he can play like an absolute dog. That means turnovers.Block number 58 — Von Miller had three sacks, two fumbles and one fumble recovery last week against the Seahawks. If there is one achilles heel to Miller’s game it’s run support. He doesn’t like to have fight off double teams in the run game and it nullifies his speed advantage.Establish the run — Broncos front seven is more of a speed and penetrating front, not necessarily ready to stand up to a pounding rushing attack. The Broncos are not a quick strike offense per se and if Keenum has to play from behind, he will put the ball up for grabs.Raiders must not beat themselves — before the half was over the Raiders had 8 penalties on offense and 10 total penalties for over 145 yards. This was during the stretch of the game they played well. Stats are empty numbers without points, and those penalties all hurt scoring chances. Jared Cook narrowly missed being a key to this game coming off 180 yards last week. He will be a safety blanket for Carr, because the whole world saw a Seahawks blocking tight end go for over 100 yards last week against these same Broncos.The Raiders and Broncos are old division rivals which means absolutely anything can happen.
