Once again Cheap Reggie Nelson Jersey , the game against the Indianapolis Colts showed that it is smart to start whoever is playing the Oakland Raiders, for Andrew Luck took apart the Oakland defense with heavy use of his tight ends. On the Raiders side of the ball, Derek Carr did have a much-needed monster game. Jared Cook was a main beneficiary scoring a touchdown and picking up 74 receiving yards. At the running back position, Doug Martin performed nicely until he fumbled the football ultimately costing the game. Jalen Richard looked explosive, but was only a factor in the passing game catching eight balls. For Thursday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, it might not be as easy. Playing whoever is going against Oakland might not hold true as San Francisco might be starting their third-string quarterback Nick Mullens. Must StartQB Derek CarrCarr is only going to get better as the season progresses since he will become more comfortable with Jon Gruden’s offense. Last week, Carr looked great throwing for 244 yards and three touchdowns. Against the 49ers, Carr might have even more time to throw, if Kelechi Osemele returns, and will get to go against a poor defense that is allowing as many passing yards per game as Oakland with 263 yards per game. TE Jared Cook Similarly to last week, the San Francisco defense is bad and there aren’t very many weapons for Carr to rely on besides Cook. With Carr clicking, Cook will have another good night on the national stage. Proceed with CautionRB Doug Martin + RB Jalen RichardMartin and Richard are grouped together because they are pretty much the yin and yang. Martin will get all the running snaps, but will be a minimal threat out of the backfield. Richard will get many dump offs in the passing game. But I am more confident in Richard, especially if those reading play PPR (point per reception) as Carr has not hesitated to dumb the ball off to Richard shown by his eight receptions on Sunday. Furthermore, Richard hasn’t broken a big play yet this season. As long as the offense goes his way in the passing game, he will break one to the house against the poor 49er defense. RB Matt Breida I am not sure if there any players to start on the 49ers aside from Matt Breida. And even he is a worrisome play for many factors. Breida is coming off an ankle injury and has only ran for 57 yards on 21 carries over the last two games. However http://www.raiderscheapshops.com/cheap-authentic-marshawn-lynch-jersey , Breida will likely get a ton of carries considering San Francisco is possibly starting Mullens at quarterback if CJ Beathard can’t go and Breida gets to face an Oakland front that is dead last in the league against the run allowing 144.7 yards per game. TE Greg Kittle Much like Breida, there is a lot going for Greg Kittle that would entice someone to start him, yet there is a lot going against him. Kittle has been a solid and consistent target the entire year tallying 37 receptions for 584 yards and two touchdowns in nine games. The Raiders have also been miserable against the tight end position. Just last week, Oakland allowed 133 yards and three touchdowns to the position against the Colts. But then again, who is starting at quarterback? If there is no one to throw the ball to Kittle it won’t matter if the Raiders’ secondary is letting him run wide open down the field. BenchRaiders D/STAs enticing a matchup could be against the massively injured Niners that could be starting a third-string quarterback, it is still too tough to play this defense.Kyle Shanahan will probably scheme something up successfully regardless of who is under center.Raiders team may not be as bad as final score versus Rams would suggest After Week 1 against the Los Angeles Rams, the NFL doesn’t think much of Jon Gruden and the Oakland Raiders. The 33-13 score indicates one of the best teams in the NFL blew out one of the worst. But if you saw the game, it was more of a sudden collapse by one of the least likely players the Raiders could get that from. The Raiders are now rebuilding on defense so Gruden planned to control and win the game on offense. The offensive game plan was flawless with a mixture of runs to running back Marshawn Lynch and passes to tight end Jared Cook. And Carr executed it well, completing 20-24 passes for 199 yards and what should have been a touchdown in the first half.But Carr, who has thrown so many dimes in the red zone over his career, started his collapse at the end of the first half in the red zone Monday night. With 4:51 left in the half, moving the ball at will and on the Rams’ 21 yard line, he threw the ball woefully short and it was picked off. The momentum would have been with the Raiders and they might have made a stop had they scored a TD but the Rams rode the momentum to a field goal, making the score 13-10. The halftime score could very well have been 20-7 instead of 13-10.The defense that just lost super-duper star edge rusher Khalil Mack wasn’t too bad at the time either. Then came the second half and the Rams cashed in their first drive of the second half with a field goal to tie the game. The Raiders then went three and out with Carr getting sacked on his own 13 yard line and punter Johnny Townsend picks a bad time for a 35-yard punt. So the Rams take advantage of the short field and go up 20-13.A little later, down 23-13, Carr seemed to be pulling himself back together and completed a 32-yard pass to Cook to get the Raiders to the Rams 40. Then Carr inexplicably threw floatertoward his left sideline that was picked off. The Rams then turned that into a field goal and the score was 26-13. Then of course http://www.raiderscheapshops.com/cheap-authentic-rashaan-melvin-jersey , there’s the pick-6 Carr threw the next time he had the ball to make the score 33-13. Everyone around the league is talking about how bad the Raiders are but they were in the game against one of the best teams in the NFL on paper. The Rams may be better but it wasn’t about the better pulling away in the second half after taking the Raiders’ best punch. The Raiders never had a problem moving the ball on offense and even without Mack, the defense was pretty good until they had to go back and defend short fields on no rest due to the turnovers. Carr actually picked the best defense the Raiders will face this year apart when he didn’t turn the ball over, going 29-40 for 303 yards with no TDs and three picks, including a pick-6. If not for a “bad throw”, “bad decision” and “miscommunication”, the NFL would be saying great things about the Carr and Raiders. Monday night’s collapse wasn’t even a case of the Rams making adjustments. They didn’t do much different in the second half than the first so Carr was not confused. “To be honest, we did some of the same stuff but we executed better in the first half. They tried to do some things a little bit different, but nothing that mattered,” Carr said after the game. “They tried to put different looks for the run game, different looks for the pass game, but nothing that we didn’t prepare for. Some of the things that we did are going to be overlooked by the bad stuff and it sucks. That’s tough. We did a lot of good things, the score doesn’t really dictate what the game was. It’s just a bad feeling. It just sucks, man.”It got ugly from the end of the first half to the end of the game and the final score was bad. But Raiders went toe to toe with one of the best teams in the NFL with Carr of all people giving it away. So there’s no reason for anyone to believe they are that bad of team. Gruden and Carr will learn from this and things will need to get better in a hurry.Yeah, like next week in Denver.