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By Tim Kawakami
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 8:03 am in Raiders, NFL.
It was a status quo week for the Raider offense–not shut out, not abysmal, but not close to good, either.
I guess, matched against Denver, the NFL’s No. 1 points defense, anything close to non-negative yardage and a 0 on the scoreboard is good. I predicted a shut out loss, so there you go.
Thirteen points (a TD set up by an INT) and a couple of decent FG drives, by that standard, is outstanding. They’re at KC this Sunday…
To the statistical update:
–The 13-point burst, their fourth-highest total of the season, lifts the Raiders to the 105-point mark and ups their average score to 11.7 (from 11.5).
It’s still the lowest total in the NFL, of course, slightly behind Tampa Bay, which scored 10 on Monday night and is at 112.
At this pace, the Raiders will score 187 points this season. That keeps them within reach of the lowest total in a 16-game season, set by the 1998 Eagles, who scored 161 and averaged 10.1.
For example, if the Raiders get shut out in KC, that’d give them a 10.5 point average through 10 games, dangerously close to the record pace.
Plus if Aaron Brooks supplants Andrew Walter at QB this week because of Walter’s pointed offensive commentary, then there’s even more possibility of a 0 Sunday.
I repeat from last week: The fewest points the Raiders have ever scored in a season is 213, which came in 1962 in 14 games, which means this Raider offense could easily be the least proficient in franchise history.
For frame of reference: Last year, the Raiders scored 290. The woeful 49er offense scored 239 last year. In the strike-shortened nine-game schedule in 1982, the Raiders scored 260.
In the Raiders 2002 Super Bowl-berth season, they scored 450.
* Meanwhile, on the sack total: The Raiders were sacked three times by the Broncos, which gives them an NFL-leading 47 times sacked but lowers their average to 5.2 a game.
That’s a pace for 83.5 sacks in the season, which is far from the legendary record of 104 given up by the 1986 Eagles.
So 104 now is basically out of reach unless Brooks or Walter or both go down 10 times at Arrowhead.
However, the 2006 Raiders remain on pace to register the second-worst sack total ever, which is the 78 allowed by Arizona in 1997.
There it is. The Raiders’ 13 points and only three sacks was actually, for them, an above-average offensive performance. Whew.
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 8:03 am in Raiders, NFL.
It was a status quo week for the Raider offense–not shut out, not abysmal, but not close to good, either.
I guess, matched against Denver, the NFL’s No. 1 points defense, anything close to non-negative yardage and a 0 on the scoreboard is good. I predicted a shut out loss, so there you go.
Thirteen points (a TD set up by an INT) and a couple of decent FG drives, by that standard, is outstanding. They’re at KC this Sunday…
To the statistical update:
–The 13-point burst, their fourth-highest total of the season, lifts the Raiders to the 105-point mark and ups their average score to 11.7 (from 11.5).
It’s still the lowest total in the NFL, of course, slightly behind Tampa Bay, which scored 10 on Monday night and is at 112.
At this pace, the Raiders will score 187 points this season. That keeps them within reach of the lowest total in a 16-game season, set by the 1998 Eagles, who scored 161 and averaged 10.1.
For example, if the Raiders get shut out in KC, that’d give them a 10.5 point average through 10 games, dangerously close to the record pace.
Plus if Aaron Brooks supplants Andrew Walter at QB this week because of Walter’s pointed offensive commentary, then there’s even more possibility of a 0 Sunday.
I repeat from last week: The fewest points the Raiders have ever scored in a season is 213, which came in 1962 in 14 games, which means this Raider offense could easily be the least proficient in franchise history.
For frame of reference: Last year, the Raiders scored 290. The woeful 49er offense scored 239 last year. In the strike-shortened nine-game schedule in 1982, the Raiders scored 260.
In the Raiders 2002 Super Bowl-berth season, they scored 450.
* Meanwhile, on the sack total: The Raiders were sacked three times by the Broncos, which gives them an NFL-leading 47 times sacked but lowers their average to 5.2 a game.
That’s a pace for 83.5 sacks in the season, which is far from the legendary record of 104 given up by the 1986 Eagles.
So 104 now is basically out of reach unless Brooks or Walter or both go down 10 times at Arrowhead.
However, the 2006 Raiders remain on pace to register the second-worst sack total ever, which is the 78 allowed by Arizona in 1997.
There it is. The Raiders’ 13 points and only three sacks was actually, for them, an above-average offensive performance. Whew.
