Klint Kubiak's Raiders LEGIT SCARY After Watching Dolphins Film...

So, Monday has come, it's arrived, and we're still 0-1. It wasn't a dream, it wasn't, we woke up in the middle of the night and it was still March and we're yet to draft Fernanda Mendoza. We are 1-0 and I am pleasantly surprised at how much attention the Raiders have gotten here from some media outlets stating, yes of course it was the Dolphins that we beat, we all know that, but also stating that the Raiders are clearly a step above, you know, the worst teams in the league, which they were right there smack dab at the end of it last year. We had the first pick in the draft for the reason we were probably the worst team in the league last year. And look, week one has some crazy outcomes, we know this, but as I'm sitting here right now, I don't feel like this week one is equal to last year's week one. Obviously, it is magnified because the Patriots went on to win the Super Bowl. We don't know how good the Patriots are going to be this year, maybe they kind of regress back to the mean a little bit, which shows that game was a little bit less crazy than we initially thought, but it was still crazy nonetheless. The way we played this game though, we were comfortable throughout the whole game and dominated along the line of scrimmage, which is not something that we can say about the Patriots game last year. We really weren't able to run the ball with Ashton Krenthe at all last year. Geno Smith was incredible, he still threw a bad pick in that game, and the defense was okay in that game, but some inclement weather, things got a little bit weird at the end of the game. That game was never comfortable, and there was a point in the third quarter where we were down. This game looked and felt a little bit different than last year. Now of course, we have more talent, we have a better coaching staff, especially along that offensive line with Rick Dennison. We're gonna, I have like so many little film things here, and tweets pulled up, and overreactions. There's an Ashton Krenthe stat that's making the rounds that puts him in some wild company. This year he could like already break a record. It's kind of a weird record, but it is a record nonetheless, and I think we just jump right into with the overreactions. We got an article here to read, we're gonna give you my overreactions, but I want to hear your comments below. A day later, how do you feel about that game yesterday? Is it still, let's take our time, it's the Dolphins, or are we going into the Charger game next week with a little bit more juice than we initially thought? I thought this was going to be a close game, and it wasn't, and we didn't play perfect football. Not even close to perfect. We'll talk about Gente, we'll talk about Mendoza's timeline, and then early week two look ahead, because the Chargers coming off a really bad loss, and we're coming off a really good win. Excuse me, I do want to just remind you to please hit that subscribe button now that the season started. We are making the push to 17,000. About 50% of you guys that are watching are not yet subscribed, so if you could do that, that helps out the channel tremendously. Likes, comments, all that good stuff. Okay, let me just make sure that this topic bar is smaller so it doesn't interfere with the article. Let me move it here. Are we good to go there? Okay, here we go. This is Jared Feinberg, Yahoo Sports. Three overreactions to the Raiders' week one win versus the Dolphins, the Las Vegas Raiders. Football is back for fans at Allegiant Stadium who enjoyed an opening week victory over the Dolphins, 27-13. The Raiders must feel good about their chances in their next week or two. As their rival, the Chargers, suffered an upset loss to the Cardinals at home. In a game that showcased two teams in different phases of a rebuild, the Raiders' clear talent advantage prevailed, even though they have more to work on. However, Las Vegas has given reason for excitement and overreaction for week one victory. Here are three exaggerated reactions to Sunday's triumph. Let me know in the comments below if you think these are proper reactions, overreactions, or underreactions. Ashen Gente has a clear path to 1,500 all-purpose yards. He's going to do this. He is easily going to do this. He had 1,300 last year. With Brock Bowers out this week, the Raiders leaned into their talented running back and reaped the benefits. Gente tallied 28 touches for 147 yards and two receiving touchdowns, leading the team in rushing scores and receiving yards and tying tight end Michael Mayer in receptions. Crazy. Gente, behind a vastly improved offensive line and an offense that utilized his past catching prowess, may have become the team's workhorse. The second year running back may very well become one of the NFL's best at the position by year's end with 1,500 all-purpose yards on the table after Sunday's win in Miami. I think that's a proper reaction. Again, last year he broke, I think it's Marcus Ellis, don't quote me on that, he broke the Raiders rookie scrimmage yard total record and I think he was at 1,310 touchdowns last year. We're going to get to an Ashen Gente stat in a second, but people were saying he wasn't generational. Not a lot of talking about that now. Rob Leonard is the truth. Maybe a bit of an overreaction here. It was the Dolphins, but let's see what they have to say. After being concerned for much of the preseason, the Raiders' third down defense looked exceptional as Miami went two for ten on third down attempts. The pass rush had one of its best days I can remember in the last two years as edge rushers Max Crosby and Quidi Paye, linebacker N'Kobe Dean, a defensive tackle, Fatou Kassi got to quarterback Malik Willis. The Raiders also shut down the Dolphins running game holding them to 74 total yards on the ground. Leonard was creative with his pressures and coverage disguises putting Willis in a bind as a passer. It was impressive to watch as it wouldn't surprise me if Leonard's defense continues to perform above average moving forward. Maybe a slight overreaction. Let's see how we do against better teams, but again we played some bad teams last year and the defense wasn't incredible. We played the Titans last year and we ended up beating them like 24 to 10 or something, but that was a brutal watch. The offense couldn't get going for long stretches and the defense was good, but the Titans are like a real, a real type of bad. This year we were just an efficient machine offensively and defensively. Robbie Leonard was dialing up some great stunts and blitzes. Quidi Paye looked like a man amongst boys. Max Crosby finally has like a legit running mate first time since like Yannick Ngakwe and then up the middle the linebacking core. N'Kobe Dean's closeout speed is absolutely insane, so maybe Robbie Leonard is that guy, but I do think, you know, the money spent on the defense, you can see this John Spytek roster finally kind of like meshing. Eight wins are within reach. I made the bold prediction that the Raiders would win eight games this season and guess what? I'm sticking with it after today's win. Las Vegas should be excited about what they have including Quidi Paye's offense and Leonard's defense given how efficient both sides of the Yes, the Dolphins are a bad football team, but it is also the combination of facing a Raiders team that may very well be ahead of schedule. When Bowers returns, maybe next week, the offense should take another step forward while Gente continues his breakout season. This franchise, this is a franchise that could stun some of the league's best this season and it isn't out of the question after some of this weekend's performances. I'm looking at you, Sean McVay, and the Los Angeles Rams. Who was the one that predicted that we were going to beat the Rams? Now look, it was a bold prediction, but that's how I got us to eight wins. I was at six or seven wins. You flip one of these weird games and all of a sudden it's at eight. We don't want to overreact, but that is the point of the Monday post week one. What are some of your biggest takeaway overreactions? Drop them down below. I think the Robbie Leonard one, only time will tell. I actually think Kubiak's offense is going to be really good with Brock Bowers this year. A lot of shade about our wide receiver room, I know, but everybody contributed yesterday. It was a little bit of Trey, it was a little bit of Jalen. Jack Besch caught one touchdown this season in his first game, which is one more than every game he played last year combined. He already has two if you count the preseason. Obviously, we don't count the preseason, but we don't have a premier pass catcher other than Brock Bowers, but with Brock and Ashton playing a lot of wide receiver, which is what Clint Kubiak did yesterday. There was a lot of Mike Washington in the game with Ashton at wideout or Dylan Laube in the game with Ashton at wideout. If our wideouts are Brock and Ashton with Michael Mayer playing and with Trey Tucker and Jalen Naylor and Besch in the mix, even Malik Benson popped a little bit yesterday, the sky could be the limit. The sky could be the limit. So let's pull up Ashton Gente having been arrived. What do I want to do? Do I want to do this? Yeah, let's listen to Rich Eisen and Brockman on Overreaction Monday, this little stat that they dropped here. Ashton Gente now has a second career 100-yard rushing game with two receiving touchdowns. He's got two of them. Would you believe the Raiders, as a franchise, have two of them? He's got both of them. He's got both. Marcus Allen never did that. Wow. Third player since 1950 with multiple such games. The other two are named Brian Westbrook and Christian McCaffrey. And Ashton Gente has done that in his first season plus one game. That is good company. And both of them have two. So if he does it again, he will be the only player since the mid-century of last century to do that. So let's just talk about this real quick. Can we stop with the nonsense of why would you take a running back before you have an offensive line? Why would you take a running back before you have a quarterback? Because the running back is generational. Mendoza, when he plays, is now going to be handing off to somebody who is one game away from passing Christian McCaffrey and Brian Westbrook in a very specific statistic. Three games with over 100 rushing yards and two receiving touchdowns. Ashton Gente's knock was, other than, oh, he plays at a small school. He's not going to be able to play in the NFL. He can't catch the ball. Well, last year, he had 50 receptions. And yesterday, he had 45 yards receiving and two touchdowns. The reason why you take guys like Brock and like Ashton before you get your quarterback, obviously, you'd like to have it all together, is because when the time comes for that quarterback to play, they're going to be like, holy ----, I have Ashton Gente and Brock Bowers in a great offensive line. You don't start with the quarterback. What do you start with then? For the people that were like, why would the Raiders take Gente? They don't have anything. What do you start with then? Do you start with the quarterback and throw him out there with no one to play with? Of course not. You start with the line, which maybe we were a little bit iffy on that. We should have started with the line and then got Gente. Okay. Gente survived his first year. He showed what he can do. He got used to the NFL speed. And now the offensive line is in place. We're going to get to the offensive line right here. Don't you worry. You have your focal point of Brock Bowers. And now you go get your quarterback, which you do have in Mendoza. That's how you do it. That is the blueprint. He, right now, looks like a generational top 10 pick, which people were questioning because he had the worst offensive line in the league last year. And people were questioning, why would the Raiders take a running back at six? Because they were just able to control the game. Just giving him the ball for 48 minutes or however long a football game is. 60 minutes. It's not rocket science, guys. It is not rocket science. Apparently, blocking is rocket science, if you ask Brendan Carroll. There's just a couple of tweets here. We got Ted Wynn with a couple of Marcus Johnson, Justin Churchill. The Raiders tweeted some stuff. We're going to talk about all this. I just wanted to, excuse me, bring some of this up and just gush about it for a little bit. The forbidden Gente run that wasn't shown on TV because of the Lions game. Linderbaum with a rare double pancake on one play on Jordan Phillips. Just look at how, how Gente was able to maneuver this. Can I slow this down? Yes, I can. Hold on, let me mute this. Playback speed, 0.25. Look at this. The ball is hiked here. This is slower than I thought it would be. Okay. Gente gets the ball. Look at this line. Miller's getting involved. Look at this. Look at Linderbaum just completely opening up this hole. Here comes Burford. Here comes Michael Mayer, which is why he's in the game. Look at this, dude. You've never seen an alley like this in the National Football League, Ashton Gente. Arm tackle, Colton Miller, sit down. Who is this right here? Who is that? Jalen Naylor getting a huge block in. Trey Tucker right here getting a huge block in. Ashton Gente, I mean, just a beautiful play. Let's watch it in perfect speed here. Oh, it was already slowed down. I didn't know that. Look at that. A little bit of wiggle, a little bit of eh, a little get off me, a little bit of uh, see you later. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. You just love to see it. Here's another thing we want to talk about. Seth Walder, top five left and bottom five right tackles, blah, blah, blah. Top five is on the left. So Colton Miller was the best left tackle. DJ Glaze was the best, was, was also top five. I don't know if Patrick Paul, shout out to him, is a right tackle or left tackle. He's probably, uh, he's probably the left tackle because the right tackle was getting worked by Max Crosby all game. Uh, Ted Wynn says, it's one game, but Chop Robinson's a good passer, helps with 55% win rate too, but Brenna Caro should get fired for this. Through one game, again, through one game, our questions are starting to be answered whether or not it was, did DJ Glaze take a step back? Is JPJ a bad lineman? Are Grant and Rodgers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, it seems like he was just horrible coaching because look at the names on the sledge. I'm sorry, I don't know who Patrick Paul is, but Joel and Jordan Milata, pretty good players. And DJ Glaze and Colton Miller were one and two or one and three in pass block win rate. Is that good? It's pretty good to me. Jack Besch and Ian Thomas lighting up Jordan Brooks on this Gentee run. Okay. So let's watch it in real time here. And then we will, uh, we will slow it down so we can focus up on it. Here comes Jack in motion, boom, sit down. And then Gentee goes through the hole again, picks up another four yards. This is why Jack Besch plays guys. Because he's, he's willing and able to do this. Look at this. Watch Jack. Look at him come across. Here he comes. There's a blitzer that's going to hit Ash and Gentee. Jack Besch and Jalen Naylor or Ian Thomas sit his ass down. Everybody else is blocking up perfectly. Look at them. They're just, they're just laying on him as Gentee gets through. And Jack Besch talked about the attention to detail that's helping him a lot. He said, the amount of detail we have going into the game plan is unlike anything I've ever seen. Coach Kubiak, we couldn't be more blessed to have this guy. I mean, Jack Besch last year, you know, Pete Carroll is a Super Bowl champion. Chip Kelly has had success at various levels. For, for Jack to say, the game plan is unlike anything I've ever seen. We couldn't be more blessed to have this guy. I mean, that's how I feel. That's how I feel. By the way, down here, Jesse Merrick. Offensive line allowed a 29% pressure rate, which is the third lowest so far in the NFL Week 1. Miami also blitzed them at the eighth highest 29% clip so far in Week 1. And then lastly, the defense. Kudipay and Max Crosby in Week 1 for the Raiders. 16 pressures, three and a half sacks, seven QB hits, three tackles for a loss, a forced fumble, Stukes' INT, 24.7, pass rush win rate, nine run stops. Week 1, bad team. I know. Not getting my hopes up, but there, there wasn't, there wasn't all good yesterday. Clint Kubiak, or excuse me, Curt Cousins. A couple bad picks. Did this game expedite the Mendoza timeline? It's funny. We saw Mendoza have some, some questionable decisions in the preseason. Really only one truly horrible throw, which was the, which was the Mike Washington sit down, Mendoza was fading back. You learn from it. The Jalen Naylor one, Kubiak seemed to put a lot of the onus on Jalen Naylor for that tipped ball. These two picks were worse than the two picks, in my opinion, that Mendoza threw in the preseason. And I do think, you know, I don't know what the timeline is. Timelines, we talk about timelines. It's just like, who's a better quarterback? Curt Cousins was awesome in passes 10 yards or shorter. He was like 22 of 20. And I think he was like one of seven once it went to like 15 yards and beyond. And that's kind of what we expected. And, and I do think, I actually do think Mendoza's timeline could have been expedited by this game. Just something to monitor as we look ahead to week two. I don't expect Mendoza to play in week two. If we win the game, who cares? And Cousins did throw three touchdown passes. So it's not like it was all horrible. He was good for a large majority of that game. But then, you know, when there's a little bit of pressure, and he has to extend the ball down the field. Didn't love what I saw out of Kirk on those two plays specifically. I think Brock's gonna help look better. We are seven point dogs going into this game. The Chargers are coming off a horrific loss where they scored what 14 points against the Cardinals. Maybe the Cardinals are better. Maybe that's the WTF moment of week one, who knows. But similarly to this game, if we're able to run the ball at a successful clip and generate pressure with four, you can beat any team in the National Football League. If you can run the ball and generate pressure, you have a chance. It just comes down to, in this game in particular, you gotta win the turnover battle and you gotta score touchdowns. We scored a couple touchdowns in the red zone, but settle for a couple field goals. Brock Bowers is gonna help that a lot because he's a great one-on-one player. But Kirk Cousins isn't gonna scramble into the end zone. And next week in particular, you better believe Harbaugh and that defense is going to dial up blitzes and going to stack the box and say Ashton Gentry's not gonna beat us. Kirk Cousins, we're gonna go one-on-one with Trey Tucker, one-on-one with Jalen Ayler. Let's see if you can fit these balls into tight windows. It's gonna come down to, can Kirk stretch the field a little bit? And can we generate pressure? And if that's the case, I do think there's a world where we start out 2-0 and then in New Orleans, who knows? New Orleans in the first half of that Lions game, the first three quarters was not good. And then you end the game and Tyler Shuck is thrown for 420 yards. Week one. You gotta love the NFL. You gotta love the NFL. You gotta love my $5 and $10 patrons and YouTube members. If you want to become one of them, it helps the channel out tremendously. Please consider joining Patreon or YouTube members. 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