[ music ] [ music ] the silver & black show. >> 1st and 10 raiders on the kc 40-yard line. pryor in the shotgun, mcfadden to his right. goes out, slant, catch, moore, 25, 20, 10, 5! touchdown raiders!

well, a short slant there from denarius moore late second quarter in kansas city last sunday. a blown angle by the safety, 39 yards for a touchdown. raiders lead 7-0, tied at 7-7 at the half and late third quarter. late critical mistakes and the raiders wind up with a tough loss last sunday in kansas city by the score of 24-7. welcome to our silver & black show. greg papa joined by the two-time winning quarterback of the raiders jim plunkett. they had a chance to win this game. >> they did. defense kept the game close. put a lot of pressure on alex smith, and forcing the punt several times, and kept the raiders in the ball game. but unfortunately, mistakes in a close game like that are the things that really cost you at the end of the game. >> terrell had three second-half interceptions, but the story of the game was the injuries on the offensive line, you lose your center, already backing up injured andre.

headline is terrell pryor, he sees red. the kansas city chiefs sacked him 10 times, jim, also hit him 14 other times. he dropped back to pass 34 times, so 24 of the 34 drop-backs, sacked him or hit him. >> that's life in the nfl unfortunately, especially when you have injuries to the offensive line. they put pressure on the quarterback, especially if you're trying to play catch-up a little bit as they did have to do late in the third quarter and the fourth quarter. and they just come after you. and make no mistake, kansas city is a very good defensive football team. they have got a great pass rush, coming into the game already knew that. and, you know, with the injuries to the offensive line, they were just almost unstoppable. put pressure on terrell pryor almost every time he dropped back to throw. and he was running for his life, and it made it very, very difficult for him. >> despite all the sacks and the turnovers, the raider defense certainly played well enough to win this football game.

second headline is roche is as advertised. that would be the middle linebacker, nick roche, got a sack party, first of the year. charles will miss the pickup here on the blitz, goes out in coverage. roche comes in for a sack. 12 different raiders now have recorded a sack this year. the team total is 16. 25 of all of last year. but nick roche embodies the raider defense this year, jim. they are playing smart and playing very well. >> they are. nick is one of the leaders on defense, helping that team put pressure on the quarterback, stuffing the run, very difficult defense to run against. they are playing much better under jason tarver. 12 different people have recorded a sack now for the raiders this year. and that's jason tarver at his best. >> we're going to activate jason tarver this week ourselves, on the silver and black a little later. as the raider defensive coordinator, also has a bum knee, having surgery during the bye week. the football team ravaged by injuries, our third headline this week. raiders welcome the bye. every team says it.

the bye is coming at the right time. for this football team, jim, especially in the offensive line, they have been decimated by injury. they need a week off. >> yeah, they certainly do. hopefully get some of those offensive linemen can heal, get back on the field, practice all week long and prepare for the upcoming game. sometimes when you're nicked and bruised and beat up, you don't get to practice all week long, so you don't get to see all the defenses that the other team can throw at you. and that's a hindrance obviously. got to be prepared. got to spend the time on the football field and hopefully they will be well enough to take the field and practice as well as just show up for the game. and that will be a good addition for the raiders. >> right off the bye week, raiders have back-to-back home games against pittsburgh, philadelphia, then play the giants, and houston. critical four-game stretch right after the bye week. this week on the silver & black show, we talk with the mad scientist himself, raiders defensive coordinator jason tarver. head coach dennis allen will stop by, as he always does, as we assess the raiders team so far 2013 at the bye week.

and jim pick our first half of the season's mvp's and who to keep an eye on for the rest of 2013. all this and more on week 7 of the silver & black show. [ music ] the silver & black show is brought to you by hawaiian airlines. hawaii starts here.

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a fired-up head coach of the oakland raiders there, dennis allen during his most proud moment i think as the coach of the silver & black, victory over the san diego chargers, late night sunday nighter. welcome back to our silver & black show. greg papa with the calm and in-studio da. you get worked up pretty good during the raider games on the sidelines. >> yeah. well, listen, i love football. and, you know, it's, it's exciting to see our guys play well and they obviously played well in that game. and you get excited about it. and it's an emotional game. and not just with the players. it's emotional with the coaches. >> you put a lot into it, i know. that was one of your victories this year. also got jacksonville at home. assess it. we've hit the pre-bye week portion of the schedule. six games in, you're 2-4. what are some of the things you like about your team? what are some of the things you want to work on in the second half? >> well, listen, i still like this football team. i still think we got a good football team, you know, when you look at some of the losses, we've had opportunities to win these games. two of those losses are against 6-0 football teams.

one of them against a 4-2 indianapolis team to open up the season. so we've given ourselves opportunities to win games against good teams. our guys continue to compete. they continue to work extremely hard. and the victories are going to come. you know, we've got, we've got to see more consistency offensively, got to be a little bit more consistent. we've had some games where we've played really well and then games where we haven't played very good at all. i want to see the consistency out of our football team in all three phases. and, and as we grow and as some of these younger players get more experience, we'll become more consistent. >> you were already very injured on the offensive line going to arrowhead. then in the game, you lose your center and your right tackle in the game and the quarterback's running for his life. let's assess terrell pryor. we spoke last week on the show about the san diego game, which was undeniably his finest game in the nfl. and then at kansas city, it's arguably his worst game in the league so far. >> when you look at it, he's a rookie in the national football league. he's got six nfl starts to his credit.

you're going to have some of those good games and some of those bad games. and all quarterbacks have bad games at times. it's really based -- it's really about how does he respond to those, to those situations? and, you know, he had the injury against denver, had to miss the washington game, so he was kind of knocked down a little bit literally and figuratively. but he came back and had probably his best game against san diego. >> yeah. >> he got knocked down a little bit against kansas city. i fully expect that he's going to come back and have a great game against pittsburgh. >> he has thrown five touchdown pass this is year, four have gone to number 17, denarius moore, spinning out of a couple of different spaces. is he playing like a number one guy? >> yeah, i think he's stepping up, stepping up and making nice plays. there's still room for improvement with him. but, you know, he's made a lot of good plays for us, caught some touchdown passes for us, scored some points for us.

i want to see him continue to grow and continue to ascend, to be that number one guy. but really, overall, the wide receiver position, i've been, i've been pretty pleased with because we've got a lot of guys that have gone in and done a pretty good job for us. >> you've had splash plays on offense, defense playing well. i want to ask you about the special teams play, starting with the punter. marquette king, a tough call you had going back to labor day saturday and cutdown day, whether the veteran, chris kluwe or marquette. you look at his numbers, 49 1/2 gross, 42 net. he could probably get better with the rugby style. had six touchbacks, but done very well for you. >> yeah, well, we always knew all along that this kid had a great leg and that he could punt the football. like a lot of guys on our team, we just got to get better at some of the situational-type things that we've got to do, the, the green punting, the rugby-style punting, where we can get some of these to be touchbacks and pin these guys inside the 10-yard line and not get ball on the 20. but he's really done a nice job for us.

and he'll continue to grow and he'll continue to get better. again, here's another guy, it's the first year in the league, played six nfl football games. he's gonna get better. >> he's got a powerful leg and he hits the ball so high, that ball that was muffed by eddie royal in san diego i think in part was because it was so high. and jones was right there to put pressure on him. he had a great game in kansas city. this guy may be a pro bowl gunner this year, taiwan jones. >> no question in my mind he's playing at a pro bowl level as a special teams player. he's done everything that we had hoped that he would be able to do for us on special teams, and he's, really, he's been a difference-maker for us on special teams. >> teams are playing well. defense is playing real well. jason tarver, defensive coordinator is going to join me. it's just numbers. last year, gave up 28 points a game. this year, down to 22 a game. >> yeah, i think it's a tribute to the players, and tarver, and the players doing what we're asking them to do. they are doing a nice job and they are playing hard

and playing fast. any time you get a defense that plays hard, they play fast, we've limited the explosive plays down the field, and we're making offenses have to go long, hard way. when you do that, you're not going to give up a lot of points. got to improve in the red area. that's the biggest area where we've got to improve, make people kick field goals and not score touchdowns. if we do that, we've got a chance to be a really good defense. here's what i didn't know about charles. i haven't worked with him before this year. he studies. he's watching ipad with the plays. he's doing everything. he studies all the time so that he can know what a quarterback's doing and respond by getting the football.

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so many big moments for the raider defense this year that is allowing just 22 points a game, down from 27. will he smile when he visits on the silver & black show? raider defensive coach, jason tarver, yeah, he's smiling. what i've seen from your defense is you are confusing some of the best offensive minds at the quarterback position in pro football. i saw it in week 1 with andrew luck. i saw it at times with peyton manning, struggled a little bit with you. rgiii had a hard time figuring it out. and the last two games i've seen it in particular with philip rivers and alex smith a couple of times hit his back foot, had no idea how to figure out your secondary, front. what are you doing to the quarterbacks to cloud their minds now at the snap of the ball? >> it's like you and i have talked a lot, and we've talked a lot here, is we have multiple looks. but it's easy for us, and we change them so it's hard on the offense. now, here's what's going on. the guys are doing a great job of making things look the same. things that are pressures look like things that aren't pressures. and that's what we talk about a lot, is, hey, guys, make it all look the same.

move around. get where you gotta get. test your limits in practice, because then by the time you get in the game, you can make it look special and move around. we did it on the first 3rd down of the game against philip and he threw it to us. that was a good play. that was a good play by all of us. >> 16 quarterback sacks. you and i talked during off season, don't have a natural pass rusher on the team, only had 25 sacks last year. where are you go doing get the sacks from? you're getting the it from everybody on this defense. >> we've missed a few. we've slid off a few of these bigger, stronger quarterbacks. we have in a week and a half that's a bigger, stronger quarterback. we're going to make sure we get those guys down, whatever we gotta do, grab, scratch, get those guys on the ground. >> activating everybody, even tracy porter, who has not had a lot of sacks in his career. i do want to ask you about your slot corner, because he is playing tight. and when you look at the other guys in this afc west, he has to go up against wes welker -- guys tough to cover. he is doing a stupendous job.

>> tracy is getting better and better. he's good with the scheme. and he's a calming influence on the rest of the young corners that we have. and that's -- he's a professional as well. so we're excited, what tracy is doing, and he's playing through some pain right now. so couldn't be happier with him. appreciate his toughness. and he's kind of a sneaky good little blitzer, too. >> you mentioned he's a mentor to younger guys, in particular dj hayden. dj has been very outspoken, when he makes a good play, there for him and when he makes a bad play, there to pick him up. tracy porter has taken dj under his wing, hasn't he? >> yeah, and dj -- tracy's good for dj because tracy tells him what he's already been through, which is the mark of a great veteran. with tracy and woodson and the guys that we have, we have our rooms, and this is something we've talked about in the past, we have our rooms kind of surrounded with veterans in each of the rooms, the d-line, line backers, and the db's. that allows young players to, one, develop quicker. two, respond quicker to mistakes. the good part about what dj has done,

anything that's happened to him a game, he's fixed the next time. now, of course in the nfl, you need to keep fixing those week to week and hopefully less and less will show up. and with that kid, as good as he is, that's how we're going. that's how we're progressing. >> and when he pulled that ball out of kansas city, charles woodson was there to pounce on it. >> yeah. >> charles is just remarkable. he just has a nose for the football. whether it's playing corner, strong safety, free safety, he reads his keys, just one of those guys wherever the ball is, 24's around the ball. >> yeah, and here's what i didn't know about charles. i haven't worked with him before this year. and this staff hasn't. but he studies. he's watching his ipad with the plays. he's doing everything. he studies all the time so that he can know what a quarterback's doing and respond by getting the football. >> let's talk about your two games coming off the bye week, starting with ben roethlisberger in pittsburgh. they got their first win last game. and ben's always been a guy that's tough to get to the ground. so is the mentality to go get this quarterback as aggressively as you've been? you got to make sure you got the right people

to put him on the ground. >> sometimes it takes more than one to get him down. then we got to have more than one around him to get him down. but we want the offense to deal with our angles and hands and the things that we do and worry about where guys are coming from, rather than the other way around. we don't worry about what people are trying to do to us. we're going to use our roles, play top-down coverage, and go get people. >> will it work the same way when the philadelphia eagles come in? you know chip kelly well, and his break-neck speed. do you have to adjust to that offense more against that team? >> what you gotta do against that offense, like you said, you gotta make sure you're right at a quick speed. so they are looking for simple reads. they get on the ball and the quarterback looks in a certain spot. is he there? okay. throw it. is he there? okay. run it. and it's quick and easy for them. so when they get in that style of offense, we need to be right in those looks and then it really

just becomes a use your rules game. we'll vary the calls enough to where when he looks he goes, i'm not quite sure. that's the time we need to make a play. i would like to see darren mcfadden be a bigger part of this offense. i know he's been a little banged up, a little hurt. but in order to be more successful the second half of the season, you got to get him more involved, got to get him yards on the ground and get him more involved in the passing game.

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he runs around the linebacker, 40, 35, 30. what speed in the second level! >> try to be the factor. try to help the team. try to make explosive plays, just like i always do. >> here's terrell pryor, back, deep shot in the first play of the game, lays it out there! and it's caught by rod streater! touchdown raiders! well, we know he can run. he leads the raiders in rushing this early year, but it's been his right arm and throwing ability that has certainly captured the attention of the raider nation and the national football league. welcome back to our silver & black show. greg papa rejoined by the former quarterback of the raiders, jim plunkett. in this segment, we'll pick our best story lines of the first six games of the year leading into the bye week. and your choice is terrell pryor. >> it is. i think he's improved immensely since the start of the season and over the last couple of years, worked very hard, been very diligent in his preparation. he's come a long way from when he got here as being a pocket passer. one of the things you have to be i think in this league,

although he does make plays outside the pocket, running and throwing. but to make it in this league overall, you have to be able to throw from the pocket and he has made a lot of progress in that regard. >> certainly has had great moments this year and a big reason why the raiders have a couple of victories. but i'm going to pick the play of the raider defense. not just because we had dennis allen and the defensive coordinator jason tarver, but they are playing smart, tight football. we saw it mostly in the sunday night game against the chargers. they had philip rivers very confused. next week, alex smith, one of the smartest quarterbacks in pro football, he could not figure out the raider front, nor jason tarver's coverages. we talked all year, how are they going to heat up the quarterback? 25 sacks all of last year. they do not have a pure edge rusher, yet they have 16 quarterback sacks this year. incredible. >> yeah, i think it is. i think it's the way that jason tarver mixes up the defensive calls. he likes to activate different people who he feels are going to be hot that particular day and put pressure on the quarterback. and he confuses them. he gets them off their game, so to speak,

and he comes after the quarterback, puts pressure on them. and as you mentioned about alex smith, he had nowhere to go at times and he was under a great deal of pressure. >> that's what's going on and well for the raiders the first six games before the bye. let's take it the other way, jim. areas of the football team we want to improve for the final 10 games of the year. >> well, i would like to see darren mcfadden be a bigger part of this offense. i know he's been a little banged up, a little hurt. but in order to be more successful the second half of the season, you've got to get him more involved, got to get him yards on the ground, and get him more involved in the passing game. let him come up with big plays in the open field to help this raider offense move the football down the field. >> and he's got to get healthy. looks like the hamstring is lingering a bit. and the offensive line has got to get healthy for sure. but the one guy i'm going to single out with the great feet is the cornerback dj hayden, jim. to me, early in the year, he played a little too conservatively, gave these nfl receivers a little bit too much credit. we've seen him on the practice field. he has the best feet on the team. i would like to see him drive little bit more. we've seen it lately.

he's got to play freer and let his talent flow. >> and he's also a young man, just learning to play the game in the nfl and he's going to get better. he came in with a serious injury and surgery prior to the start of the season. and i, i think that's what slowed him down a little bit. but as he feels more comfortable, he gets a lot of help from charles woodson, jason tarver, he'll be a much, much better player. >> and tracy porter, a great mentor taking him under his wing. raiders are 2-4 at the bye. you come out of the bye and the schedule has those two pennsylvania teams coming in, back-to-back. pittsburgh steelers coming first and the philadelphia eagles. two critical games at home before you go out on the road for the giants and the houston texans. >> yeah, certainly two different type of teams. steelers team struggling, with only one victory, but they always have roethlisberger and big play capabilities there. and a whole different philadelphia eagle team, with kelly as their head coach. so the raiders have to be ready for two different teams and start the season back up after the bye.

>> and that game against the pittsburgh steelers next week, the raiders final game in the month of october. so it's a great time to have the raiders halloween costume contest. the game day contest will kickoff sunday, october 27th from 11:00 a.m. to kickoff time at the raiders kid zone in the coliseum. if you need more details on this, head to raiders.com for all details on the halloween costume contest. maybe i'll dress up as jim plunkett next sunday for the game. for the great mr. plunkett and dennis allen and jason tarver, i'm greg papa. enjoy your bye week this week and we'll get you ready next week for the raiders up against the pittsburgh steelers. [ music ] this has been a presentation on the team of the decades, presented by silver & black productions.

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