The Oakland Raiders have changed head coaches, but they haven’t changed their tendency to try long field goals.
With 11 seconds remaining in the first half of today’s game at New Orleans, new Raiders coach Tom Cable sent out Sebastian Janikowski to try a 59-yard field goal. It missed, wide left. He had previously missed a 57-yard attempt wide left.
That’s not even close to Janikowski’s longest attempt. Two weeks ago against the Chargers, Lane Kiffin sent Janikowski out for a 76-yard attempt. Last season Kiffin sent Janikowski out for a 64-yard attempt.
Today’s 59-yard miss gave the Saints the ball at the 49-yard line with six seconds left, and it could have proved costly for the Raiders: On the ensuing play, Drew Brees completed a 25-yard pass to Billy Miller down the center of the field, appearing to set up the Saints to try a field goal of their own just before halftime. But even though Miller hit the ground with two seconds left and immediately signaled for a timeout, the officials ruled that time had expired, and the half was over.
The Saints lead 10-3. All the action can be followed here.
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October 12th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Gannon claimed he was hitting 58 yd. feild goals in pregame warm ups.
It wa sa bad idea to go for the first one he missed, but I felt there was nothing wrong with going for the 59yd. attempt. The Raiders hardly had the ball in the first half, and needed any points they could get.
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October 12th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
hahah the raiders are comedy. Id like to see PFT’s take on Russell throwing the ball almost 30 times. Wasnt Al trying to burn kiffin by saying the offense was too run heavy? And then tried to make Kiffin look dumb by saying he didnt want to draft Russell? Russell looks HORRIBLE in that game. DeAngelo and Javon look pretty stellar too. So stellar that the game just got switched off. Kiffin could be a pretty good GM apparently.
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October 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Raiders are so horrible that after JaMarcus was sacked and fumbled CBS immediately switched to the Jets/Bengals game.
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October 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
What you gotta say about Reggie Bush for this one MR. Florio?
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