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49ers Offense Needs More Consistency For Home Opener Against Bears
By Sam McPherson The San Francisco 49ers didn’t look good in the preseason on offense, and despite the 28-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 1 of the regular season, quarterback Colin Kaepernick...
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Bolts Turn Focus To Undefeated Bills
By Dave Thomas Raise your hand if you had the Buffalo Bills sitting atop the AFC East after two weeks with the division’s only perfect record. Anyone? Someone? No one? While hardly marked for the NFL’s...
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How Many Games Will The Oakland Raiders Win This Year?
By Sam McPherson While every expert on the planet predicted a last-place finish for the Oakland Raiders in 2014, not as many would have pegged them to be the worst team in the National Football League...
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Week 3 Injury Report: Updates On Keenan Allen And Antonio Gates
By Dave Thomas For the San Diego Chargers, this weekend’s test in Buffalo could go a long way in determining just what kind of season the Bolts have after all. Coming off of a huge 30-21 home victory...
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Opponent Profile: Are The Miami Dolphins A Beatable Opponent For The Raiders...
By Sam McPherson If the Oakland Raiders are an enigma to the casual NFL fan, then the Miami Dolphins might just be considered the same—just not as recognizable. In Week Four, the two teams will take...
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Opponent Profile: San Diego Chargers Present Big Challenge For Toothless Raiders
By Sam McPherson The Tony Sparano Era of Oakland Raiders football begins in earnest this week, as the AFC West leaders—the San Diego Chargers—come to the Coliseum for a Week Six game. The Raiders are...
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CBS Sports Steve Tasker Talks Two Big AFC Battles In Week Ten
By Danny Cox As week 10 approaches, the playoff picture is starting to clear up a little bit, but there are still plenty of teams alive in both conferences and fighting for their postseason lives. In...
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Opponent Profile: Can The Raiders Beat Suddenly Sinking Chargers?
By Sam McPherson It’s been almost a year since the Oakland Raiders last won a game: It was November 17, 2013, in fact, on the road against the Houston Texans. By the time the Silver & Black take...
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CBS Sports’ Ian Eagles Talks Bills vs. Dolphins on ‘Thursday Night Football’
By Danny Cox The term “must-win game” is one that can often make a team sick to their collective stomachs, but it’s the way things happen in the NFL sometime. Actually, it’s the way that things happen...
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Opponent Profile: Chiefs Hot At The Wrong Time For The Raiders
By Sam McPherson The Kansas City Chiefs come to Oakland on Thursday night, fresh off a victory over the defending Super Bowl champions, and that isn’t good news for the 0-10 Raiders. When the Chiefs...
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Six Games To History For Raiders Now, And It’s Not Looking Good
By Sam McPherson Time is wasting for the 2014 Oakland Raiders. And we’re not talking about the short week of preparation for Thursday night’s nationally televised matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs...
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Team Grades: Raiders Get A Big Fat ‘Fail’ In St. Louis
By Sam McPherson Maybe the Oakland Raiders had too much time off after their first win of the season on November 20 against the Kansas City Chiefs at home. Given nine days to prepare for the St. Louis...
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CBS Sports Steve Tasker Talks Denver Broncos Vs. Buffalo Bills
By Danny Cox Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos are playing some of the best football in the entire NFL right now, and they are one of the contenders to win it all. First though, they’ve got a few...
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Team Grades: Raiders Pull Off Big Upset, Prove They Don’t Need Harbaugh
By Sam McPherson Now we can use the cliché that on any given Sunday in the NFL, one team can rise up and beat another. The Oakland Raiders have proven this now, after their 24-13 win over the San...
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Four Takeaways From Week 15
With only one more game left in Week 15 on Monday Night, lots of surprises happened on Sunday in the NFL. Some good, some bad, and some expected. Let’s take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of...
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Team Grades: Rough Third Quarter Dooms Raiders In Kansas City
By Sam McPherson Halfway through the third quarter on Sunday in Kansas City, the Oakland Raiders still had a chance to win their third game of the season. But a rough five-minute stretch on defense...
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Opponent Profile: Bills Defense Among League’s Best
By Sam McPherson The Buffalo Bills have a two-game streak going where they’ve held opposing quarterbacks without a touchdown pass, and while that may not seem like a big deal, it’s noteworthy to...
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Could This Sunday Be The Raiders’ Last Game In Oakland?
By Sam McPherson This weekend’s home game for the Oakland Raiders at the Coliseum—against the surging Buffalo Bills—might be the Silver & Black’s last contest in the East Bay, as the team still...
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Injury Report: Raiders Wounded And Just Trying To Survive To Season’s End
By Sam McPherson With just two games left in the 2014 season, there’s not much motivation for the Oakland Raiders as they face the Buffalo Bills this Sunday at the Coliseum in their final home game of...
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Team Grades: Once Again, Raiders Prove Coliseum Is No Easy Place To Win
By Sam McPherson After another upset win on their home turf Sunday, the 2014 Oakland Raiders now have single-handedly led to the playoff elimination of the Kansas City Chiefs, the San Francisco 49ers...
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Opponent Profile: Denver At Mile High Poses Problem For Oakland
By Sam McPherson The 2014 Oakland Raiders are 3-12, and perhaps that’s three games better than some of us thought for this season way back in early October. But the Silver & Black still can’t win...
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Injury Report: Raiders Still Wounded As Final Weekend Approaches
By Sam McPherson The 3-12 Oakland Raiders take on the 11-4 Denver Broncos Sunday in the final game of the 2014 regular season, and if the Silver & Black want to win their first road game since...
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Josh McDaniels Is In The Mix For A Head Coaching Position
By Gregory Hunt Even though his first foray into being an NFL head coach didn’t go well when he lasted less than two seasons with the Denver Broncos, media reports say New England Patriots offensive...
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Patriots Opponent Profile: Luck Gets Another Shot At Brady
By Gregory Hunt For the fourth consecutive year and the ninth time in quarterback Tom Brady’s career, the New England Patriots will play in the AFC Championship Game when they face the Indianapolis...
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6 Classic Rex Ryan-isms From His Bills Press Conference
Oh Rex Ryan. The man is quite the orator, but can he coach? We’ll just have to wait and see. In the mean time, enjoy these quotes from Ryan’s introductory press conference in Buffalo. “Is this thing...
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4 Teams Better For Hard Knocks Than The Texans
The Houston Texans have been selected to be featured on HBO’s documentary series “Hard Knocks.” The show is a blast to watch for any football fan, but the selection this season leaves a lot to be...
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4 NFL Picks Against The Spread for Week 1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-3) over Tennessee Titans Throughout the entire draft process there was one continued theme, “Jameis’ learning curve will be smaller than Marcus’.” So here we are in Week 1, and...
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CBS Sports’ Solomon Wilcots: Saints’ Offensive Line Is Deteriorating In Front...
By Danny Cox CBS Sports NFL analyst Solomon Wilcots took some time to speak on three big games happening in Week 6, and one is the Thursday night match-up between two NFC South rivals in the Atlanta...
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Rex Ryan Leads Bills In His Return To Battle Jets On Thursday Night Football
By Shawn Lealos This season has seen a number of less than interesting games on Thursday Night Football, with either a poor team battling a powerhouse, or in some cases two teams with losing records...
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TNF Fantasy Starters: Bills Vs. Jets – Who To Play, Who To Pass
By Stephen Dolan The New England Patriots are running away with AFC East, but there is plenty of jockeying for position in the division and the playoff race going on. Thursday Night Football features a...
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Is Rex Ryan Making The Buffalo Bills Better Or Worse?
By Jason Keidel Antonio Cromartie is visiting Buffalo this week, for a football reunion with Rex Ryan. Both men can commiserate over their time in New York, and how the Jets cut bait with both. They...
View ArticleOakland Raiders Week 8 Injury Report: Secondary Still Struggling To Return
By Shawn S. Lealos The Oakland Raiders have struggled with injuries all season long, and their defensive backfield has been decimated by numerous ailments. Heading into the Raiders’ upcoming game...
View ArticleRaiders Team Grades: Raiders Fall To Bills In Turnover-Plagued Game
By Shawn Lealos The Oakland Raiders beat the AFC West division-leading Kansas City Chiefs in their last game, giving the Chiefs only their second loss of the season. However, the Raiders couldn’t...
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CBS Sports’ Trent Green On Week 12 Bills-Chiefs Matchup, More
By Matt Citak The Kansas City Chiefs enter Week 12 looking to break their recent cold streak. Kansas City sported one of the NFL’s highest-scoring offenses through the first five weeks of the season,...
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CBS Sports’ Ian Eagle On Week 13 Chiefs-Jets Matchup, More
By Matt Citak The Kansas City Chiefs enter their Week 13 matchup as losers of five of their last six games. It’s been a tale of two seasons for the Chiefs. Their 5-0 start had many around the league...
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CBS Sports’ Steve Tasker On Week 14 Colts-Bills Matchup, More
By Matt Citak The Indianapolis Colts entered the 2017 NFL season expecting their franchise quarterback, Andrew Luck, to be under center at some point during the season. That is not the case. Luck was...
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CBS Sports’ Phil Simms On Week 16 Bills-Patriots Matchup, More
By Matt Citak The Patriots escaped Pittsburgh with a much-needed win last week, defeating the Steelers, 27-24, to regain the AFC’s No. 1 seed. MVP candidate Tom Brady had his third consecutive mediocre...
View ArticleThursday Night Football Breakdown: Buffalo Bills At Miami Dolphins
By Andrew Kahn The Miami defense, which has played so well this season, needed just one more stop on Sunday to get the Dolphins a win over Detroit. Instead, the Lions scored a touchdown with 29 seconds...
View ArticleThursday Night Fantasy Starters: Sammy Watkins, Dan Carpenter And Miami Defense
By Steve Silverman We have aggressively backed some of the big-name skill position players as we have previewed the NFL’s Thursday primetime games this season. But when the Bills and Dolphins meet in...
View ArticleFive Things: Bills Vs. Dolphins Thursday Night Roundup
By Andrew Kahn In a critical AFC East showdown last night, the Dolphins emerged with a 22-9 victory, scoring the game’s final 19 points in the last 18 minutes. Miami is now 6-4 with favorable home...
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