DAUNTE! (part 2)

We'll see how long this lasts, but Papa announces that Culpepper is starting the 2nd half.

He made a kind of snarky comment, noting that McCown has done some good things with the offense today, and now we'll see if Pep has a grasp of the "complexity of this offense."

Mike Williams is going to be inactive next week again if he keeps dropping passes. Papa sounds disgusted.

Punt.

SeaBass, Player of the Week

He almost missed a close one...

The RedZone Channel host, he hasn't said his name, asks after the Morrison INT if it was possible to go from being the AFC Offensive Player of the Week to being benched for Brady Quinn in one week.

The answer is not if Lane Kiffin was the coach...

Seriously, at this point, McCown can barely walk. The bomb to Curry was perfect, but at some point you have to be concerned about a player's health, don't you? Morrison returned the ball to the 6. You gotta score a TD there, especially if you're going to let the Browns score a Touchdown on the ensuing kickoff and then fumble the ball on your own thirty as soon as you get it back.

One time, I went to a game and was waiting in line at the Will Call for my tickets, when we saw Jesus standing in line with a biker-chick angel on his arm. Everyone was saying, "You're Jesus, why do you need tickets?"

I hope Jesus is there today and can heal McCown's foot at halftime, or else command Kiffin in his own name to put in Culpepper.

13-0

How hurt does McCown have to be before you get him out of there?

Kiffin is reminding me of George Bush not firing Rumsfeld after three years of blatant incompetence, or saying "Heckuva job, Brownie."

Or maybe not. McCown just threw a TD pass to Curry. We're dominating...

McCown!

Except that McCown's not that hurt, and he's back in after the Howard interception. He must have taken a Salt Tablet.

He fought the through the boos long enough to get a PI called on JP in the endzone, and to get Mike Williams JACKED UP! in the endzone.

SeaBass hits another field goal.

Daunte!

Okay, I feel bad for McCown. I really do. He's a tough kid, he tries really hard, and I don't like to see anybody get hurt. Except for maybe Randy Moss. And I don't really want to see him get hurt so much as maybe get E-coli from a bad batch of wheat grass in one of his smoothies.

So I'm sorry McCown got hurt. But I'm really excited to see what Daunte's going to do.

By the way, if you have Sunday Ticket, the RedZone Channel shows the Raiders game, blackout or no, when either they or the Browns are in the red zone, or if it's the only game that's not currently in a time out.

History

Sunday's game was so brutal, it's taken me this long to write about it. My daughter was born just before the season started in 2005. Since she's been alive, the Raiders haven't won a game in their division.

So Sunday afternoon, I went and got her. She's two now, and every time she sees football on TV she says "Yay, RAIDERS!" She has a little Warren Sapp jersey and a smart-looking Raiders sweat suit. So I grab and I tell her, "The Raiders have a chance to beat Denver, something they haven't done since you been alive."

She said "Yaay, RAIDERS!" and Seabass nailed the 52-yarder.

And then came the time-out Shanahanigans, and the subsequent miss, and all of a sudden I felt like one of the douche bag Red Sox fans in the Ken Burns Baseball documentary who woke their kids up in the middle of a school night to witness history, only to see Buckner let the ball dribble between his legs.

Obviously, this loss wasn't that much of a stomach-punch. And I knew, like probably every Raiders fan knew, that the 2nd kick was going to bounce off that upright. There's no way that kick was going in.

But c'mon, Kiff. Please get McCown outta there. He's killing us. It's not like 1998 when Gruden had no choice but to leave Donald Hollas out there to get murdered. You've got a choice. Could Daunte really be that bad?

You've given us some hope. Don't kill it.

A Word on the Patriots' Cheating Scandal

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