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The Raiders boosted their rebuilding process in April with nine draft picks, including four in the first two rounds, and their Week 11 win over the Bengals showed how well that process went for the team.
Fourth-round pick Maxx Crosby had four sacks, first-round pick Josh Jacobs...
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Preston Brown was liberated from the winless Bengals last week, and has found himself in the middle of the playoff chase.
Via Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com, the Raiders have signed Brown, the day after beating his old team.
To make room for him on the active roster, they’re...
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The Raiders are still in the playoff race. And the Bengals are still in first place in the race for the first overall pick.
Although Cincinnati made it closer than most were expecting today in Oakland, the Raiders ultimately earned a hard-fought 17-10 victory over the Bengals. The...
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Bengals receiver Auden Tate flew back to Cincinnati with his teammates Sunday night, Ben Baby of ESPN reports.
Tate later tweeted he was OK after leaving the field on a stretcher.
“I’m good, y’all,” Tate wrote.
Tate injured his neck after a 20-yard completion in the fourth...
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Raiders head coach Jon Gruden elected to punt on a fourth-and-eight from the Bengals 33-yard-line with two minutes to play in Sunday’s game and he told reporters after the 17-10 win that he made that choice because he believed in his defense.
It didn’t take long for the defense to...
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The Raiders have won three straight games to push themselves into the scrum for playoff spots in the AFC.
They’ve also pushed themselves into a more attractive time slot for their Week 13 game. The Raiders will be in Kansas City to face the Chiefs that week and the NFL announced...
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Week 11 of the 2019 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win (and a few other things) by the Browns and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday.
The teams playing on...
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Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict had refused to talk to reporters in the aftermath of the 12-game suspension that ended his 2019 season after only four games. After the egregious non-football act that ended Browns defensive end Myles Garrett‘s season after 10 games, Burfict’s...
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When you’re playing a team that’s apparently not tanking but sure looks like they are, you have to go to great lengths for motivation.
Perhaps even to other sports.
Raiders coach Jon Gruden wanted to make sure his Raiders didn’t overlook the 0-9 Bengals Sunday, so he referenced...
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Colin Kaepernick will workout for scouts Saturday in Atlanta.
As PFT reported earlier Thursday, the league has not provided and does not plan to provide Kaepernick’s representatives with the names of those attending. The only certainty Kaepernick has received came from General...
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The Bengals had a new addition to their injury report Thursday: Defensive lineman Geno Atkins did not practice because of a knee injury.
Atkins has played in all nine games this season and has made 23 tackles and three sacks.
Offensive guard Alex Redmond also was a new addition...
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There was a glimmer of hope that the Bengals would get wide receiver A.J. Green on the field for last week’s game against the Ravens, but it went away almost as quickly as it appeared.
Green didn’t practice shortly after head coach Zac Taylor said last Wednesday he expected the...
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Through 10 weeks, plenty of viable candidates for coach of the year have emerged. Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre would give the award to one specific coach, based on what has transpired to date.
“I don’t know what the outcome of the season will be but if I had to pick a...
The Raiders signed defensive end Dion Jordan last weekend in a move designed to boost their pass rush for the stretch run.
Jordan has shown an ability to do that at points during his career, although his on-field skills have been missing in action for long stretches due to suspensions under the...
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Plenty of people in and around the NFL don’t like Thursday football. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin isn’t one of them.
“I do not have an opinion nor do I care,” Tomlin told Cleveland media on Tuesday regarding Pittsburgh’s looming short-week showdown with the Browns. “I am not...
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When the Steelers lost their first two games, and lost Ben Roethlisberger for the season, it appeared hopeless. It wasn’t.
In fact, if the playoffs started today, the Steelers would be in.
Here’s how the AFC playoff race looks through Week 10:
LEADERS
1. Patriots (8-1) The clear...
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Browns receiver Odell Beckham has vowed that 2020 will be the best year of his life. And so the next question becomes whether he’ll be playing for the Browns during the best year of his life.
It’s not a stretch to think that Beckham or the Browns or both will decide to move on...
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As the Raiders continue an unlikely playoff push, they’ve added another pass rusher to the roster.
Dion Jordan, the third overall pick in the 2013 draft, has been signed by the Raiders.
The Dolphins traded up to No. 3 to select Jordan, whose career has been derailed repeatedly by...
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Free agent safety DJ Swearinger worked out for the Raiders this week, and it apparently went well.
The Raiders are signing Swearinger, according to multiple reports.
Swearinger started and played every snap for the Cardinals in their first four games this season but was cut at...
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Chargers left tackle Russell Okung left the game after Philip Rivers‘ first interception. Although the team listed him as questionable to return, Okung remained on the sideline.
He played only seven snaps in the loss to the Raiders, and Rivers took a beating with right tackle Sam...