The Raiders have scored at least 26 points in every game, their first 4-game start like that since 2016, and Kirk Cousins threw for 365 yards against the Chiefs without being sacked. They also have the league's worst run game for the second straight year.
Scott starts with the number he can't shake: 57% of Ashton Jeanty's carries are met at or behind the line of scrimmage. From there he works through the numbers (3.1 yards a carry, 93 rushing yards a game, stuffed on 24.4% of runs, all last in the league) and the likely causes: a reshuffled offensive line still learning to work together, tight formations that invite stacked boxes (30.3% of runs, fourth highest in the NFL), and a receiver room with no vertical threat to move a safety out of the box. Klint Kubiak took responsibility for it this week. Scott agrees with part of that.
Then Boston Globe Patriots beat writer Chris Price joins from New England. They cover:
- Whether the Patriots have turned the corner after the win in Buffalo
- Why that defense stops the run (Milton Williams and Robert Spillane inside, with the edge as the soft spot)
- The Christian Gonzalez and Christian Barmore injury picture
- How Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer get covered
- Where Drake Maye stands at 24
- Why young quarterbacks shouldn't be rushed, a conversation that includes Fernando Mendoza
- What Tom Brady's receivers really looked like
Raider Nation Court closes the show with callers on the run game, the wide receiver room, a possible Marvin Harrison Jr. trade, and how much future the Raiders should spend on a wild-card push.
00:00 Cold open: 3-1 with the league's worst run game
01:33 The 57% number
03:24 The full picture: 3.1 yards a carry, 93 yards a game
05:35 Whose fault is it? Offensive line continuity
08:45 Tight formations and stacked boxes
09:51 No vertical threat at receiver
12:12 Signs of hope: Dont'e Thornton's return
14:03 Kalshi: Raiders-Patriots market
16:52 Why Foxboro won't make it easier
17:57 Verdict and the tell
19:45 Chris Price, Boston Globe: Patriots preview
22:05 What makes the Patriots run defense work
24:08 Gonzalez and Barmore injuries
25:41 Containing Bowers and Mayer
27:50 How the Raiders attack that defense
28:57 Drake Maye: confidence and timing
32:56 Developing young QBs, Fernando Mendoza included
36:41 Brady's wide receivers
38:43 Raider Nation Court
40:01 Raider Sky (New Jersey)
43:50 Raider Rob (San Diego)
47:59 Jacob (Fresno)
52:15 Dave Casper the Ghost (upstate New York)
57:42 Pick and sign-off
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