Seriously, by mid-second QTR, I was ready to pull VY and put in Collins, but when Collins did get in there, he looked just as bad. He was EVERY INCH as bad as VY and he wasn’t even getting as much pressure from the Raiders’ D-Line.

Hawkins is the best receiver on the team. Time to pull Brandon “I can’t catch and land with two feet in bounds when it counts to save my life” Jones and send him back to the bench. And there was a long pass in the first QTR where McCarreins pulled up to look for theball and consequently couldn’t get out to make the catch. Did Gage even have a catch? And where the Hell was Alge Crumpler?

Vince obviously doesn’t trust his receivers, and that’s making him late on his throws. Plus, he was often either holding the ball too long or his receivers were missing their hot reads on the blitz, leaving him to back-pedal from pressure and throw off one foot. TERRIBLE! That’s an opportunity missed!

I think our O-Line was missing Dave Stewart big-time.

Argh.

I have been one to post things in defense of our receivers….even i’m start

ing to lose faith in them!! With that being said VY would of been horrible throwing to hall of fame receivers last night. Most of those passes weren’t even close. I’m concerned, but not worried. Our offense is so vanilla right now, there will be a lot more when the season begins. I’m sure Heimerdinger has several plays that really showcase his strengths.

By the way, my nickname for Chris Johnson: Maurice Jones-Johnson!

I love watching him, wow! Great pick!

By the way (again) Jimmy: James Hardy update…no catches….but he is going to be a star!

1. We drafted well this year. CJ is a future star. Hawkins is a playmaker. Jones will be a solid lineman. Keglar is good at ST.

2. VY and our receivers needs to practice more and get insync. If they don’t perform well next preseason game, i’m already predicting our passing game wouldn’t be better than last year.

3. Our D is atleast as good as last year. They will be better in the next few games barring injuries.

4. Biren Ealy and Lavelle Hawkins deserves to play this year. Cut Paul Williams.

5. VY tried to be a pocket passer last night, I hope that is not the plan for the whole year. He is so much better when he is also a running threat.

6. The Thick and the Quick combo will be a success. I am predicting atleast a 15 TD year for the Thick.

7. Michael Phelps won the gold by a hair fair and square. I’ve seen the replay a couple of times.

wasn’t the only receiver that made a great play last night. Biron Ealy also had those two clutch catches in front of defenders on the Ingle drive.

pretty much agree with the rest of Jimmy’s evaluation, though.

I’ll wait until regular season, my original observation last week still looks right. Jimmy can mock me all he wants, but it doesn’t change what’s happening on the field.

he will still be the starting quarterback and future of the franchise. With that said, he will produce this year and will have a good season. Vince is our guy, our team is solid, and we cannot let one preseason game (one half actually) convince us otherwise. Lavelle Hawkins had one big catch against second stringers, Biren Ealy had two big catches against third stringers. Ingle Martin marched the team down the field against complete scrubs. Saying Collins or Martin should be starting is a joke.

You can’t learn too much from a preseason game, good or bad. Last week’s success made us believe we were going to win the superbowl and this week’s lack of success made us believe we’re going 0-16. Vince needs to work on his timing with his receivers but that’s about all we really learned. That and our running game will still be as successful as ever.

Joy Kat, I TRULY hope that your comment about Ingle Martin being considered as our go to guy was a joke. Honestly.

It’s in the FanShots section. Enjoy.

…but having seen them now, I can see why he’s not as upset as we fans are. First off, we already knew that the Raiders have one of the better secondaries in the League. So then, that explains why he put his receivers one-on-one with that secondary to see if they could beat those Oakland CBs without scheme help. Could they just BEAT them, man-to-man?

Answer: No. Not yet, at least.

Apparently the main issue was that the WRs weren’t getting off bump-and-run coverage. With the timing off, nobody was making a play—QB or WRs.

One can imagine that there are any number of ways to counter that kind of bump-and-run coverage with scheme—screen pass to Chris Johnson would seem to be one—but that wasn’t what the team was trying to do. Still, you’d like to see VY and his guys play better, but I, at least, feel better for understanding a bit of why these guys struggled so much.

Hey guys, great game. I wish we hadn’t made all the mistakes we made against you guys. You guys pulled off a pretty nice win over a game I thought we had put in the books. I have to admit it, that one receiver you guys have that scored a touchdown in the second half is pretty darn good.