Raiders Run Defense Leaves a Familiar Stench

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Published: August 24, 2009

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... the sort of awful familiarity that makes it hard to wholly accept whatever good vibrations were established in the previous pre-season game, and it's the same sort that sends tremors of discontent down even the most optimistic fan's backside.

The scoreboard never matters in a pre-season game, but so often the statistics do.

The Raiders’ run defense allowed 275 yards rushing on only 47 carries (5.9 average per rush), echoing the same troubling issues of last season.

Rookie running back Glen Coffee amassed 129 yards rushing while averaging 8.0 yards per carry, converted quarterback Michael Robinson ran for 97 yards on only 14 carries, and even undrafted rookie Kory Sheets had 51 yards on only 12 carries.

And it isn’t as if the 49ers were innovative in their run blocking or utilized some scheme that was unfamiliar to the Raiders. In fact, all the 49ers did was pound the ball up the gut over, and over, and over, and…the Ra...

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