Team MVP Randy Moss Wide Receiver Oakland Raiders Sure, he mailed it in like a champ during the second half, but his first half helped the Raiders avoid going 0-8 during the easiest games in a TSB season. With 5 100 yard games and a pace to break both the receptions and receiving yardage record, Moss built the cushion that Whitted and Fargas would utilize in the second half. Final Stats Rec Yards Avg. TD 51 1297 25.4 14

Surprisingly...not that bad! I admit that the running game was a worry, especially since LaMont Jordan had 11 rushes for only 3 yards after the first game. Since Jordan was never injured, Brooks got the only other running yards, thanks to his crappy "Run and Shoot QB Sneak" that never gets more than 2 yards and his occassional flat-footed scramble.

The main problem with the offense was the playbook, which wasn't good. The lone running play worth anyone's salt was Jordan's OneSetBack L, and even that play only worked occassionally since the left side of Oakland's OLine is so poor. Randy Moss flew out of the gate as a receiver. After 8 games he was on pace to break the season record for receptions (Roy Green, 61), but he slowed significantly in the 2nd half while Justin Fargas and Alvis Whitted picked up the slack. The Aaron Brooks experience left some to be desired, as he seemed to possess no foot speed whatsoever and 50% of his throws into coverage resulted in INTs. Even Timm Rosenbach was able to hold it to 13 INTs on the year. The Raiders did have possibly my favorite pass play (Run and Shoot Z Fly), but nothing else of note, unfortunately.

Defensively the Raiders are pretty terrible. Warren Sapp gets through the line fairly quickly, but like I said I don't allow my self to sit and use the nose tackle all game, and when using anyone else I was in danger of giving up yet another 90 yard run to Larry Johnson (who I fortunately got to play THREE times this season, all three times coming in the second half of the season!). I think I gave up 4-5 >75 yard runs to LJ. Of course when I say "I", I mean "my computerized teammates."