Oakland Raiders escape with overtime win over San Diego Chargers
The San Diego Chargers are considering sharing a new stadium in Carson with the Raiders and the St. Louis Rams are thinking of moving to a new stadium in Inglewood, which is also in the Los Angeles area.
Earlier this week, Woodson announced that he would retire following this season. Fans hold up signs for retiring Oakland Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson and for the Raiders to stay in Oakland during the first half of an NFL football game between the Raiders and the San Diego Chargers in Oakland, C… Another thing to watch is the possibility that Woodson plays some snaps on offence.
Woodson’s script has included 18 years, a Defensive Player of the Year award and a Super Bowl title among a litany of other distinctions. The Chargers whipped the Miami Dolphins last Sunday with scatback Danny Woodhead scoring four times. This is actually the final Thursday game of the season, and the matchup is kind of fitting.
Washington Redskins (7-7) at Philadelphia Eagles (6-8), Saturday, 8.25pm. This year has been miserable for the Chargers and they’re now looking at a plan that would allow them to share an L.A. stadium with the Raiders if both teams were to relocate. “Three weeks before a potential vote, and no one knows what’s going on”. He returned five kickoffs a total of 47 yards during his seven years with the Packers.
Smith had a big game defensively with 14 tackles, the forced fumble and two tackles for loss.
Merry Christmas to all as the NFL plays on Christmas Eve Thursday Night Football. The Panthers have yet to clinch homefield throughout the NFC play-offs and are still chasing perfection.
He came back out onto the NFL Network set, and there he was serenaded by the Black Hole one last time. The Falcons will be facing a motivated Josh Norman, who drew three – and could have been more – personal foul penalties against New York’s Odell Beckham Jr.
Covered Seahawks for Tacoma News Tribune for six seasons.
The Panthers will secure homefield throughout the play-offs and should be able to do so even at the Georgia Dome, where the Panthers easily won 34-3 last December to clinch the NFC South for the second straight season. Against a once-stout Falcons defence, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton had a ideal quarterback rating in the December 13 win while Carolina rolled up 142 rushing yards.
So many story lines with this game.
If the play-offs started today, the Jets would be out of the play-offs.
“We’ve got a gritty team, and that’s something we’ve been wanting to have”, Del Rio said.
Roberts left Sunday’s game with an abdominal strain and also sat out a bunch of plays Thursday. They went for the two-point conversion to take a 3-point lead at 20-17.
Oakland took the 37-29 win in the teams’ first meeting on October 25. Woodson got a Gatorade shower and then led the fans in a chant of “Rai-ders!” With all of the injuries the Chargers are dealing with and have dealt with already, I don’t see this game going any different.