Oakland Raiders Sign QB Garrett Gilbert to Practice Squad

They also allowed a short pass to Devontae Booker to go 43 yards for a touchdown.

Derek Carr, Oakland’s third-year star who delivered an MVP quality season, is out with a broken fibula that’s significantly hindered the Raiders’ Super Bowl chances. Matt McGloin suffered an injury to his trapezius muscle in a season-ending loss to the Broncos and will not be ready. The Raiders left Denver down to rookie QB Connor Cook, as McGloin went down with a shoulder injury.

On Monday, Raiders coach Jack Del Rio pointed to a poor game on the ground as a culprit in that loss.

The once-benched Brock Osweiler is now back in action for Texans after Tom Savage exits Sunday’s game due to a concussion. 4 games and I will try to cover each of the games before the weekend rolls around.

The Packers are peaking at the right time and with Rodgers playing like he is right now, it’s going to be tough for the Giants to outscore the Packers.

The Texans lost to the Raiders in a Week 11 game played in Mexico City and were on the wrong end of a call that might have cost them a touchdown.

So the question becomes: Can Osweiler really lose to Cook, a rookie with no National Football League starts? Rookie and young QB’s have a knack of going to the go-to guy for a crutch and I think Houston will be prepared for that.

From an overall talent standpoint, I like the Raiders better. “I think that when you don’t have a lot of tape, sometimes you got to go back and maybe watch, just to get a skillset evaluation, maybe go back and refresh your memory with him in the draft as it relates to Connor Cook“. That unit struggled moving the football and punted on all five first-half series. Play your best players, have your best game plan, because there ain’t no next week.

For a player in whom there was pre-draft talk of concerns about his leadership and personal skills, that hasn’t seemed to be a problem in Oakland and Cooper was impressed by Cook’s demeanor on Sunday. I can see the headlines now: “Jets confident $100m man Matt McGloin has only scratched his playoff potential”. That said, Oakland’s defense has been consistently inconsistent really the entire season.

Del Rio would not confirm agent Leigh Steinberg’s tweet from earlier in the day that his client, Garrett Gilbert, had signed with the Raiders’ practice squad and would be active in Houston if McGloin is unable to play. NY has actually been absent the playoffs the past five seasons but their two Super Bowl wins over the last 10 years earn them contender status.