The Raiders travelled to Houston to play the Texans in the Wild Card game without Derek Carr, and Donald Penn, on the other side the home team played without the 3 times defensive MVP JJ Watt. Actually not the right time and not the right and not the right opponents to play without two key players on offense because counting the stats the Texans defense is the first in the NFL during the regular season. Unfortunately for Oakland the game hasn't be close as they expected because playing with Cook under center at his NFL debut as a starter caused so many problems right from the beginning like no connection and timing at all with his receivers, most of is passes hasn't been on target and he suffered so much the pressure by both outside linebackers Mercilus and Clowney and the things went worse when before halftime the pro bowl center Rodney Hudson went out of the game with an ankle injury. So the Raiders offense became inefficient and predictable trying to run the football with Latavius Murray who had no chance to do it efficiently and along with the large the deficit they decided to give it up around the mid part of the third quarter. On the Houston's side the offense worked well than everyone expected not turning the ball over and having good gains on passing game especially to DeAndre Hopkins who hadn't a great connection with Osweiler during the regular season. On the second half they sat down on the confortable lead who arrived even at 20 points picking of the rookie QB Cook three times ending the game with a solid win.
I think Oakland played the best football offensively than they could with all the injuries they had, just Crabtree really disappointed me in the way he never provided a reliable target to help his unexperienced QB, maybe he won't change anything about the final result but when the former 9er got injuried Andre Holmes played a way better on his place. The only thing that they should more is the no huddle offense that they run with success at the end of the first half, they should do it to tire out the Texans' pass rushers. Defensively they disappointed me because 20 points given up at the half are too many in my opinion against a weak offense like the Houston's one, even if they made a good job against Lamar Miller and the running game, they have been inefficient to put pressure on Osweiler and creating turnovers. Also Hopkins outplayed Amerson all game long on one to one man coverage something that permitted Osweiler to have good numbers because the other receivers liks Federowicz, Fueller and Griffin didn't have a good impact at all.
The only chance that Houston have to beat a team liek Kasas City or New England is playing great defense and improve the running the game that didn't produce so much, otherways they won't have a chance to compete at that level.
MVP: Hopkins
I think Oakland played the best football offensively than they could with all the injuries they had, just Crabtree really disappointed me in the way he never provided a reliable target to help his unexperienced QB, maybe he won't change anything about the final result but when the former 9er got injuried Andre Holmes played a way better on his place. The only thing that they should more is the no huddle offense that they run with success at the end of the first half, they should do it to tire out the Texans' pass rushers. Defensively they disappointed me because 20 points given up at the half are too many in my opinion against a weak offense like the Houston's one, even if they made a good job against Lamar Miller and the running game, they have been inefficient to put pressure on Osweiler and creating turnovers. Also Hopkins outplayed Amerson all game long on one to one man coverage something that permitted Osweiler to have good numbers because the other receivers liks Federowicz, Fueller and Griffin didn't have a good impact at all.
The only chance that Houston have to beat a team liek Kasas City or New England is playing great defense and improve the running the game that didn't produce so much, otherways they won't have a chance to compete at that level.
MVP: Hopkins
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