OAKLAND
The coach says it’s only a matter of “misfits,” but to the average football fan not trained in the clinical aspects of the science, it looks as if the Raiders’ run defense is just getting splattered this preseason.
A week ago Thursday in Green Bay, the Packers’ Eddie Lacy hammered it downfield on the opening drive. When the procession was over, both the football and the back sides of the Raiders’ defenders had reached the end zone, either in Lacy’s arms, in the case of the ball, or forcibly, in the case of the Oakland defenders, who were pushed into it by the Green Bay offensive line.