GDT Week 12: Raiders vs Dolphins. Squish the Fish!!!

Silver&Black88 · Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 25041 Location: Rochester, NY

No GDT yet?!?!?!?!?

Week 12 2010: Oakland Raiders vs Miami Dolphins

(ahhh allegory)

My keys to the game:

Raiders:

1. Darren McFadden
Need to get him going early. Pound it out a bit with him, screen, sweep. Anything to get him involved because he will be a crutch for the QB. Simply put, he's our best offensive player and we can't afford to not utilize him. Last week we FINALLY saw him split out at WR again. This was the first time he did it this year IIRC. I've been wondering why he hasn't been there at all this year.

2. Pass Defense
Marshall may be out and we will have Nnamdi but that's no reason to get cocky. Davone Bess can carve up a team in a Welker-like manner. Hartline is also a good receiver, not flashy but can produce. Anthony Fasano is no slouch either, Branch can't screw up too bad this week. Our CB's can't do the usual crap and give up a bad play now and then because we can't afford to fall behind any more. A good pass rush will certainly help out our DB's.

3. WR play
We need Murphy, DHB and Ford to do work. I know neither QB looked very good last week but that isn't an excuse not to show up. Everyone but Ford and Higgins looked bad last week; can't let it happen again. Need to get open, catch and secure the ball. Yes this is a huge request, but we need guys to do it. The QB's will need all the help they can get, especially with Wake breathing down the neck.

Dolphins:

1. Darren McFadden
Contain him and you win. Campbell will make the offense futile if DMC and Bush aren't running well. Bruce will keep both teams in the game.

2. QB pressure
Campbell will at least be ineffective if pressured. If Grad is, you have a decent chance at a turnover. We are susceptible to strip sacks too and Wake vs Veldheer is a favorable matchup for Miami.

3. Use the man scheme against us
Their receivers have the ability to do that to us even without Marshall, and if they scheme right, this could get ugly. Luckily, Henne and Thiggy aren't exactly accurate.

Prediction:
Raiders 21
Dolphins 20

Hope for no injuries to either team.

Squish the Fish!!
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RaiderX · Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 17256 Location: Crown Town, CA

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Young Legend · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 3719 Location: --ARIZONA-

We need mcfadden to run like mcfaden he is our offense like u said stop bin u win.on defense we need to blitz n take advantage of there injuries on there offense line.

RaidersAreOne · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:49 pm Post subject:

ZoomWaffle · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 4604 Location: AZ

Dat Raider · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:22 pm Post subject:

Speaking of gayfishes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXXV-n9sNF4
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bigjohn · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 1382

Were playing at home not on the road.

ZoomWaffle · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 4604 Location: AZ

LevR85 · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:21 am Post subject:

besides everything that has been said above, I would say one of the biggest things that we have to do is, Hue Jackson dialing up good plays, making the right situational calls, and not wasting any drives. It makes me sick when we start a drive with a deep throw, then rush the ball 2 or 3 yards and then attempt a short pass. I know you have to switch it up to keep the opposing D honest but this isn't what we should be doing on the first or second drive of the game.
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J-ALL-DAY · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 16095

Adam Schefter reported Raiders are planning on starting Bruce Gradkowski.
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RaiderX · Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 17256 Location: Crown Town, CA

Another big test for Veldheer. Try your best to block Cameron Wake. 9.5 sacks on the year against a rookie LT whose given up quite a few already in limited action.

Bruce - Give the rock to #20 and take care of the ball.
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coolj247 · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 314 Location: Cali

when is bruce campbell going to get a look?? is he RT or RG?

Raiders4sho! · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:11 am Post subject:

Comit2Xcelence · Joined: 25 Sep 2010 Posts: 1116 Location: Sunny SoCal

i had high hopes for this game, We are at home. Coming off a ugly loss that we need to rebound from. and miami has its 3rd QB playing.

Now that Buns is starting and we didnt sell out. i can see us for sure losing. we will need a huge game from DMC. and an even bigger game from the defense, defending short field cuz Buns is throwing at least 2 picks and gunna fumble once.

SMH at Tom Cable. GTFOH and go back to coaching the Oline

bigRICH93 · Joined: 27 Nov 2010 Posts: 7 Location: LA

bold predicton: Gradkowski leads us to a convincing win over MIA and shows that he CAN be the man when he beats SD next week. today he throws for two TD's but not many yards due the fact of us giving a heavy dose of our running attack...we win 27 to 10 , gradkowski's stats say otherwise but after today he'll show that he's a good(not great) qb...