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Oakland Raiders at Dallas Cowboys: First-team offenses dominate
Among potential Super Bowl contenders, the Raiders and Cowboys have two of the worst defenses in the NFL. They also boast two of the top-five offenses. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that these offenses dominated early on Saturday.
For the Raiders, it was all about Derek Carr finding that connection with star receiver Amari Cooper. Carr finished his day completing 13-of-17 passes for 144 yards and two touchdowns, including this beautiful 48-yard strike to Cooper. For his part, Cooper caught 4-of-6 targets for 78 yards and a score. Oakland ultimately put up two touchdown scoring drives in the first half.
With Ezekiel Elliott seeing his first action of the preseason, the Cowboys’ offense wasn’t to be outshined. Dak Prescott completed 11-of-14 passes for 114 yards and a score, including this easy touchdown strike to Jason Witten. All said, Dallas netted 130 yards and two scores on its first two possessions of the game. Yeah, these two offenses promise to be absolutely dynamic in 2017.
New York Jets at New York Giants: Hackenberg is terrible, Petty is injured
There’s legitimately no reason to believe that Hackenberg is an NFL-caliber quarterback. New York gave him opportunity after opportunity to prove himself in the preseason and he just stunk it up. Saturday’s performance was pretty much the final nail in the coffin here. Hack threw two pick six’s in the first half a lone, both showing him to be way over his head in the NFL. He’s just a bad quarterback.
On the other hand, Petty led three third quarter touchdown drives after replacing Hackenberg. He then had to exit with a knee injury that was later confirmed to be a sprained MCL. It remains to be seen how long Petty will be out, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see veteran Josh McCown under center in Week 1. Considering McCown didn’t even suit up for the team’s third preseason game, that just tells us how bad this quarterback situation really is.
Oakland Raiders at Dallas Cowboys: First-team offenses dominate
Among potential Super Bowl contenders, the Raiders and Cowboys have two of the worst defenses in the NFL. They also boast two of the top-five offenses. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that these offenses dominated early on Saturday.
For the Raiders, it was all about Derek Carr finding that connection with star receiver Amari Cooper. Carr finished his day completing 13-of-17 passes for 144 yards and two touchdowns, including this beautiful 48-yard strike to Cooper. For his part, Cooper caught 4-of-6 targets for 78 yards and a score. Oakland ultimately put up two touchdown scoring drives in the first half.
With Ezekiel Elliott seeing his first action of the preseason, the Cowboys’ offense wasn’t to be outshined. Dak Prescott completed 11-of-14 passes for 114 yards and a score, including this easy touchdown strike to Jason Witten. All said, Dallas netted 130 yards and two scores on its first two possessions of the game. Yeah, these two offenses promise to be absolutely dynamic in 2017.
New York Jets at New York Giants: Hackenberg is terrible, Petty is injured
There’s legitimately no reason to believe that Hackenberg is an NFL-caliber quarterback. New York gave him opportunity after opportunity to prove himself in the preseason and he just stunk it up. Saturday’s performance was pretty much the final nail in the coffin here. Hack threw two pick six’s in the first half a lone, both showing him to be way over his head in the NFL. He’s just a bad quarterback.
On the other hand, Petty led three third quarter touchdown drives after replacing Hackenberg. He then had to exit with a knee injury that was later confirmed to be a sprained MCL. It remains to be seen how long Petty will be out, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see veteran Josh McCown under center in Week 1. Considering McCown didn’t even suit up for the team’s third preseason game, that just tells us how bad this quarterback situation really is.
