Sebastian Janikowski News

Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson Power Rankings: Preseason: 30. This week: 27.

SAN DIEGO The Raiders didn't have to be told the San Diego Chargers would run the ball as often as possible Sunday.

Kyle Orton , Broncos, quarterback: It is no coincidence that the Broncos lost their first game of the season on the day Orton struggled.

The Raiders fell short of 200 yards for the fifth time in seven games, an unmatched run in franchise history.

SAN DIEGO The Raiders played better against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday than they did a week earlier in a lopsided loss to the New York Jets.

The Oakland Raiders losing streak against the San Diego Chargers has grown by yet another game.

Some things never change in San Diego, such as the great weather and LaDainian Tomlinson and the San Diego Chargers beating the hapless Oakland Raiders .

When all Hades is breaking loose, when the very walls of the organization are crumbling, to whom do you think the young and impressionable denizens of Raider Nation turn a lonely eye? The quarterback? Nah, JaMarcus Russell is too busy deflecting criticism and loosening up his throwing arm by tossing receivers under the bus.

On Sunday the Raiders travel down to San Diego to face the division rival Chargers.

Sometimes in college football, Daniel-san has to try to crane-kick Mr. Miyagi's butt.

For Oakland, last week's win was a nice change of pace. Strong defense, aided by timely scoring by Zach Miller and Sebastian Janikowski.

So much for an east coast bias.Were the NFL really the northeast-centric league some claim, the New York Jets would surely have been provided a suitable time-zone patsy upon whom to vent collective frustration this week.A trip to see old friend Eric Mangini along the lake in Ohio, perhaps.Or maybe a jaunt to Florida's sunny, Gruden-less Gulf ...

Let's hope the hard-fought win over the Eagles was not the shining moment for the Raiders this season.A It's nice to be 2-4 instead of 1-5, but let's see this win for what it isa 'a great defensive effort and a barely acceptable offensive effort.A The running game still has not emerged and one passing touchdown does not make up for the ...

We all knew that Michael Vick coming to town would bring the animal rights activists out to Oakland Coliseum for Sunday's Raiders game.

JaMarcus Russell threw two interceptions but also completed a pass that went for an 86-yard touchdown.

The Oakland Raiders provided an emphatic answer to the skeptics dishing out barbs the last few weeks.

The NFL does business with all these folks: Ricky Williams. He's either a four- or a five-time loser in the NFL banned substances program.

Mario Henderson News: Mario Henderson had to be helped off the field during the second quarter of the Week 5 game against the Giants, David White of the San Francisco Chronicle tweets.

OAKLAND, Calif. a ' With his long, lanky build, John Fassel more closely resembles Ichabod Crane than your stereotypical football lifer.

Raiders special teams coach John Fassel packs a world of niceness in that tall, skeletal frame of his.