Ineptitude, thy name is Raiders

The only thing dumber than the Oakland Raiders' decision to go for it with a QB sneak on 4th and inches to goal down by 9 inside 3 minutes to go after failing to punch it up the middle 3 times from the 1 is the ESPN crew's cheering on the decision. The money quote was, "Don't leave 7 off the board." Well, not only did they leave the 7 off the board, they left the 3 off the board AND burned their last timeout on a fruitless challenge. Then the Raiders jump offsides to bring it back beyond the 5 and make the game-clinching 1st down an inevitability. Please tell me that Ted Thompson is smart enough not to hire Norv Turner.

More bad news for tomorrow; on the strength of his 28 carries/203 yards day, Tiki Barber now has 1870 1860 rushing yards, 63 53 more than Shaun Alexander (Homer nod - New Year's Eve and math don't mix).

Full disclosure - I had the Giants minus 8, so despite the fact that this puts a hole in the Packers v Jets draft-day tiebreaker, I'm happy with Duh Raiders' ineptitude.