Late in the third quarter on Sunday in what had been a dominating performance by the Chargers
Womens Johnny Townsend Jersey , the Raiders had a chance to pull within 20-10 with first and goal from the one-yard line. Everyone in the stadium
including the Chargers defense knew the ball was going to Marshawn Lynch, except
it wasn’t. Instead, Jon Gruden elected for a play action pass, and quarterback
Derek Carr threw it right into the arms of Melvin Ingram to all but end the
Raiders chances of a comeback. “We haven’t thrown the ball in a goal-to-go
situation all year,” Gruden said. “It was first-and-goal, the decision there was
to throw it. If it isn’t open, you throw it away. It didn’t work out. We
expected that we’d have a wide open receiver on the play and obviously that will
be second-guessed, rightfully so . . . I’ll live to hand the ball off on the
next play, possibly.”This isn’t the first time Lynch has been deprived the
football at the one-yard line
Youth Rodney Hudson Jersey , as an almost identical play cost the Seahawks Super Bowl XLIX. “I done seen it happen to me on the game’s biggest
stage,” Lynch told ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez after the loss to the Chargers Sunday.
“Now it’s happened in a regular-season game. It’s alright, though.”Lynch was
told the stat that since the start of Super Bowl XLIX, teams with Lynch have now
thrown four times from the one-yard line and are 0-4 including two
interceptions. “That’s cute,” he replied. Heading into Sunday’s game, the
running back nicknamed ‘Beastmode’ had forced 20 missed tackles, five more than
the next closest rusher, earning an NFL-best 105.4 elusive rating from Pro
Football Focus. An incredible 254 of his 300 rushing yards came after contact.
His ‘unreal performance’ against the Browns in week three carried the Silver
& Black to their first victory of the 2018 season. So for Gruden to refuse
giving the ball to him in a short-yardage situation is inexcusable, yet it
continues to happen.In week two
Youth Jared Cook Jersey , the Raiders were up 19-10 in Denver early in the fourth quarter with fourth and inches at the Broncos 33. But rather than
lean on Lynch in one of the biggest plays of the game, Gruden elected to run a
play action bootleg to fullback Keith Smith who dropped the pass. The following
week against the Dolphins, Oakland was in a fourth and goal situation from the
one-yard line. Gruden gave the ball to Smith who was stuffed and failed to
convert.Later in the game on third and goal from the one-yard line, Gruden
called Lynch’s number who skied over the Dolphins defense for a touchdown. “With
[RB] Marshawn Lynch, we love to give him the ball but we had shown some things
and they showed on film that this should be good and obviously they covered it
and it didn’t work out,” explained Carr after the game. “But it’s been five
games now where we’ve just — pow, pow, pow — so you have to throw a play action
or else they’re all going to commit on him and it’s going to get stuck.”That’s
all fine and good, except the “pow
Womens P.J. Hall Jersey , pow, pow” plays that weren’t successful were ran with Smith rather than Lynch. After Carr’s goal line interception, Lynch was
visibly upset taking off his helmet and looking like he wanted to throw it.
While Gruden understands his frustration, it won’t stop him from passing on the
goal line again.“I don’t want to see anybody get upset, I want everybody to be
happy,” Gruden told the media on Monday. “It won’t be the last pass I call on
first and goal either. I think that’s the best time to throw down there. I
regret that it was intercepted. It turns out to be a horrible call. But we were
down 20-3, Melvin Ingram’s your middle linebacker in a jam front and I wanted to
throw a play action pass on the one foot line. My opinion is it shouldn’t have
been intercepted, we shouldn’t do that right down there, but we did
Womens Leon Hall Jersey , and Lynch is frustrated, I think I threw my visor and my headset, so I think he and I have a lot in common.” One thing they
don’t have in common is Lynch’s role with the team in short yardage situations.
Lynch’s agent CJ LaBoy perfectly summed up Gruden’s flawed logic when he
tweeted, “You have the greatest and most ferocious/feared short yardage back of
all time...and you don’t give him the ball at the goal line?” RAIDERS
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