Oakland Raiders Must Use Bye Week to Soothe Offensive Growing Pains

October 12, 2015   ·   Maurice Moton   ·   Jump to comments

The Oakland Raiders have a full week off to iron out the wrinkles on offense. The process begins with expanding the playbook near or in the red zone.
Offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave attacks opposing defenses with a variety of creative designs for a versatile quarterback in Derek Carr who shows functional mobility.
In the first four games, Carr showed the ability to throw accurately inside and outside of the pocket. Unfortunately, Musgrave fails make use of those attributes when approaching the end zone.
On Sunday, Musgrave’s conservative approach hurt the Raiders' chances of finishing off drives and potentially stymied a comeback rally. 
Oakland controlled the football for nearly seven minutes on one particular drive in the first quarter and came away with zero points.
Musgrave isn’t accountable for Sebastian Janikowski’s failed field-goal attempt, but the offensive coordinator took his foot off the gas pedal in the red zone:
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