Week 4 Previews (Mariners & Raiders)

In week four of the NFL season the Oakland Raiders play against one of the current highest caliber offenses in the league, the Texans. The combination of their three stud offensive players, Matt Schaub, Arian Foster, and Andre Johnson, may be too much for the Raiders to handle at first look. Right now the Raider's defense is rated #10 in the league. Although those stats may be a little skewed since they played the Rams, who aren't really a premier team in the league right now, this still shows the improvement that the defense has had in the offseason. Hopefully Richard Seymour and the John Henderson/Tommy Kelly combination at inside Lineman will help stop the powerful running game of Arian Foster. Like last week, the league's best corner(Nnamdi Asomugha) will be playing the Texan's #1 receiver Andre Johnson, hopefully neutralizing his contribution to the game. The Raider's offensively need to pass well. Their running game is already off to a great start, and seeing as how the Texan's Corner Backs aren't anywhere near the top tier of DB's in the league, Oakland has a good chance of getting their arial attack going. Without a good passing game Oakland has little to no chance of winning this game

Moreau Catholic plays Kennedy of Richmond this saturday. Richmond on the outside looks like a brand new team compared to the program who went 0-4 before scratching the rest of their season last year. They have a large D-Line,their inside linemen weigh 335 and 305. Both of those players start on both sides of the ball, and are also the Left Tackle and Guard. Although it looks like Richmond has picked up a few better athletes, film shows that they are still the same undisciplined team. They jump offsides, they hold, and they take plays off. Overall the Kennedy team is probably faster, and bigger than Moreau's squad, but they are technically unsound, which is Moreau's strength. As well as being technically sound as a team, Moreau is much more disciplined. Moreau desperately needs to win this game, to start off their league play 1-0, and move their total record to 3-0-1