Welcome back. Grant Kniepe here.

Box Sports, Sacramento.

Hope you're doing well.

We're going to talk some college and the NFL.

And, of course, tonight you've got the Raiders and the Broncos.

You want to talk about two organizations or two teams going in completely different directions.

Wow.

Denver and the Raiders coming up tonight.

Every Thursday at this time, we talk, as we said, college and the NFL with Chris Landry.

You can check everything out, Landrie Football.com.

Check out his shows over on YouTube.

Chris, good to have you on.

How are you this Thursday?

I am doing good. I hope you don't ask me how the Raiders are going to win tonight because I have that answer for you.

Actually, you know, crazy things happen. It could happen tonight just because it's the NFL.

Yeah, well, okay, I was going to ask you, what is the biggest issue with the Raiders?

Because there was so much renewed optimism when Pete Carroll, I mean, you can't argue with

the man's track record, Gino Smith, who played very well for Pete in Seattle, who's really

been awful this year, not that I'm blaming it all on Gino Smith,

but the organization looks lost again right now. So what's happened to them in your view? Well, they're really bad offensively because they can't run the football. They don't play well at the line of scrimmage. You don't have a running game. And for Gino Smith, you've got to have a running game. You've got to work the play action in. you got to work the boots, the wagos.

It's got to be augmented by the running game and if he doesn't have a running game and he has to drop back there play from behind he is not going to be successful that's not what he is he's a guy that you can win with he's not going to win for you and defensively I don't I just don't think they're very good. I think getting the ball

back is difficult. And then staying on the field offensively. I mean, it's just not a whole lot

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