RAIDERS vs. Eagles Half Time Post

Alright welcome in to the halftime post between the Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles where the Eagles are up big thanks to the high octane, up tempo offense 28-13.

Some of the positives, there's not a lot of positives here considering how the game is going. I gotta say the receiving corp is probably the only positive so far. Rod Streater 4-4, on 80 yards had that big gain to set up a Sebastian Janikowski field goal, he's putting the team on his back in terms of play making when Terrelle Pryor was moving around getting uncomfortable as the pocket is collapsing. You can throw in Denarius Moore as a positive making a big time catch when again Pryor was in trouble deep into his own end zone and that always ends up as a devastating broken play.

I know Rashad Jennings scored a running TD in the 2nd quarter, but our running game is up in the air right now. Darren McFadden has been shut out for the rest of the half, I don't know why. Again, reports say he's not injured, but there's gotta be an explanation why McFadden is not getting as much snaps as he is expected to have.

Onto the negatives so far, for the first time ever in a long time, the defense. Dating back to week 1 against the Colts, who's gonna generate that true pass rush? The Eagles' high octane offense is putting that "top 10" defense back down to Earth. Nick Foles 4 TDs in the half, Riley Cooper 2 receiving TDs on 122 yards. We gotta find a way to get to Foles and he is mobile too, which is another problem. The defense has got to wake up and Jason Tarver and DA has gotta find a way to fire this defense up because they played an uninspired first half of football out there.

The Eagles get the ball, it is likely they'll run the high octane offense again. I mean we're doing a good job containing Shady and DeSean Jackson, but the Eagles had the right players to step up in Bryce Brown and Riley Cooper. Like I said, the defense has got to make plays and if they're making our defense tired, the offense has got to find a way to get the Eagles' defense tired as well.