Keidel: Jim Kelly’s Final Score
By Jason Keidel » More Columns To the world west of the Hudson, we have three teams in New York. And while we indeed have three NFL clubs named after the Empire State, only one actually does business...
View Article49ers 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...
View ArticleBolts 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWeek 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...
View ArticleOpponent 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...
View ArticleOpponent 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...
View ArticleCBS 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...
View ArticleOpponent 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...
View ArticleCBS 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...
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...
View ArticleOpponent 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...
View ArticleSix 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...
View ArticleTeam 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...
View ArticleCBS 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...
View ArticleTeam 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...
View ArticleFour 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...
View ArticleTeam 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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