The Only Black Hole Around Oakland Is The One Coming From My Fantasy Team

Don’t let those 77 yards fool you, people. 67 of those yards were done on the ground thanks to the hard fought, but lost cause efforts of Justin Fargas and two errant scrambles by JaMarcus Russell. If you do the math correctly, that only leaves 10 passing yards for the whole game. That’s right, 10 passing yards. Pretty amazingly pathetic.

What is even more astounding is how those 10 passing yards stack up compared to other passing statistics throughout the day. Let’s observe.

Did you know that?

- Earnest Graham (a running back) and Mark Bradley (a wide receiver) had more passing touchdowns than JaMarcus Russell on Sunday. They each had one. Graham threw one to Stanford alum Alex Smith, who is pictured.

- Kevin Faulk from the Colts. had a better passer rating than Russell yesterday. Russell’s rating: 19.0. Faulk’s rating 79.2. How did Faulk achieve that rating? One completion on one attempt for a gain of -2 yards.

- Tyler Thingpen (a third string quarterback for the Chiefs at the beginning of the season) had more receiving yards than the whole Raider receiving core combined. Thingpen had a total of 37 receiving yards while the Raiders had 31.

- Thingpen also had more receiving touchdowns that day compared to the Raiders. Thingpen 1 TD’s, Raiders 0 TD’s.

- Matt Ryan had a better rushing average than Michael Bush. Ryan gained 1 yard on 4 attempts, making his average a deflating 0.25 yards an attempt. Bush on the other had had -2 yards on 3 attempts, making his average about -0.7 yards per attempt.

- The Eagles threw to more than 3 times the amount of receivers the Raiders threw to. The Eagles threw to 10 different players. The Raiders only threw to 3.

- Todd Herremans (an offensive tackle) had more touchdown catches than anyone on the Raiders on Sunday.


- The Raiders’ passing yardage equaled the amount of people who Al Davis has sucked the soul out of.

Okay, that last one was fake. I think. So yeah…………. how about them…. Sharks?