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Arden Key saw few snaps only on third down in his first preseason action Womens Mike Nugent Jersey , we will see more of him when Raiders face Packers Last week in LA against the Rams, Raiders fans got only a small sample of talented rookie pass rusher Arden Key. He had missed the preseason opener in Oakland with an ankle sprain, so that was the first look fans would get at him. The man everyone had been hearing so much about in camp had nine snaps, primarily on third down, and wasn’t able to make an impact in the game. That could ultimately be his specialty. At least until he improves his work in the run game. But that wasn’t the reason he saw such a limited role last Saturday.“I mean, he was coming off of that injury. We were just limiting his snaps to third down for that game Youth Seth Roberts Jersey , just because we didn’t want to give him 35-40 snaps on the first game. That was the plan going in, get him in there on third downs and let him rush and then as we go to this next game, he’ll play a little bit more.”Perhaps he was trying too hard to live up to the hype? That’s tough to do in such a short time.“I think he was a little bit disappointed with a couple of his rushes,” said defensive coordinator Paul Guenther. “But, hey, it was his first NFL game Womens Gareon Conley Jersey , I said relax, go out there and do what you do. You try not to over coach those kinds of guys because Arden is special at what he does, rushing the quarterback. So, hopefully he’ll get some more snaps in this game and we’ll have him ready for the first week.”Key was the most exciting young player in Raiders training camp this year. The rookie third round pick has watched as fell drafted defensive linemen P.J. Hall and Maurice Hurst have each gotten a sack already. Hall got his on his first snap. Key’s turn could be coming up Friday.Follow @LeviDamien “Humbling.” That’s how CJ Anderson describes 2018. A Super Bowl hero for the Broncos in 2015 and coming off a 1000-yard season in 2017 only to find himself cut last April. He quickly signed with the Carolina Panthers, but with the emergence of Christian McCaffrey, Anderson again found himself unemployed. This time it was a lot harder to catch on again.“I got to Oakland and I’m excited Youth Tahir Whitehead Jersey ,” Anderson said in an ESPN interview last week. “I’m back home with my mom. Two O-linemen go down. Gruden brought me in and strictly said ‘We gotta bring a guy back we released in earlier in the year.’”Anderson had been signed in case Doug Martin was unable to play that week. Martin played, so Anderson was rendered inactive. Then he was released without ever having suited up in a Raiders uniform. “I thought it was over there. I thought I was done,” Anderson continued. The 27-year-old said he was close to retiring. Then a week later he got the call by the Rams, for the same reason the Raiders had signed him — as an insurance policy. An opportunity you could say he may not have gotten had the Raiders not turned to him for the same reason weeks earlier.Only this time, Anderson suited up. And he exploded onto the scene. The Cal product had 167 yards in his first game with the Rams and put up three-straight 100-yard games. Then he did it again, running for 123 yards and two touchdowns in the Rams’ Divisional round win over the Cowboys.So Youth Kelechi Osemele Jersey , you have Anderson who was out of work in December of the season, having been released twice already. The Raiders come calling, signing him to the team, reminding the league that Anderson is out there as a viable option. Even without playing a snap for the Raiders, a week later, he is in a Rams uniform and was a major factor in helping them to the Super Bowl. And the experience he had is also playing a role in how he attacks defenders.“I’m trying to make you feel my story Womens Johnny Townsend Jersey ,” Anderson added. “You didn’t go through some of the things I just went through in the past eight months of 2018, so I’m just trying to let you feel that.”The Vallejo native reps the Bay Area wherever he goes. Like Marshawn Lynch and Doug Martin, even though Anderson wasn’t able to suit up for his hometown team officially. Also just like them, he carries his experience trying to keep his NFL career alive every time he carries the rock. He will carry it in the Super Bowl this Sunday.Follow @LeviDamien

We’ve been doing the Song of the Game for a minute now Youth Quandre Diggs Jersey , and I’ve got to wonder each time we put together these playlists as to just how jarring the attitude can go week-to-week once it’s all said and done. The Lions, for the past two seasons and change, have been incredibly inconsistent, unable to put together a standardized performance that we can easily quantify. The season is half done and we’re still going to be talking about how we don’t know what this team is.It’s fun, isn’t it? I know that you might think “fun” would be just to win all the time, and that’d be pretty neat http://www.lionsauthorizedshops.com/aut … uin-jersey , I suppose. But barring such a possibility, at least it’s a roller coaster and not a sand trap. Detroit Lions vs. Seattle Seahawks Song of the Game: “Special” by GarbageI thought you were specialI thought you should knowBut I’ve run out of patienceI’ve run out of commentsI’m tired of the violenceI couldn’t care lessBut you know what? I can’t fault a fan if they’re getting a little weary of the ups-and-downs. After a while some sort of picture is supposed to form of this team, and each week when you think the Lions have a run game or the ability to create pressure on a quarterback it just whispers and vanishes, like it didn’t even exist to begin with.Each time you think this team is special, they remind you, very clearly Marvin Jones Jr Jersey , they’re nothing of the sort.What a thrill.I’d say some fans have lost patience for sure if they’re talking about trading Matthew Stafford for a handful of picks. Thankfully, I wrote about this exact scenario not long ago.Anyway, as the dek says, just be grateful I didn’t pick the Australian national anthem after what Michael Dickson did to the Lions. Oh, you’d have thought I’d pick Men at Work? That song is lame. You’re lame for thinking it. Get outta here.Song of the Game is a weekly column during the season. We’ll use a song to describe our feeling or the Lions’ performance from the previous game. At the end of the year, we’ll have a complete Spotify playlist telling the story of the Lions’ 2018 season. You can check out the 2017 playlist here Authentic Graham Glasgow Jersey , and our explanations for our choices here. Pro Football Focus has had a lot of good things to say about the Detroit Lions in the 2018 season, especially regarding their rookie class. Tracy Walker finished with a top-10 grade in coverage and an impressive 89.8 overall grade. Da’Shawn Hand made their All-Rookie team of 2018. Kerryon Johnson finished with the 13th-highest grade among all running backs.However, it wasn’t great news for much of the rest of the team. The Lions secondary ranked 30th. Their front seven ranked 31st. Matthew Stafford was just 16th and the offensive line ranked 16th as well.So it’s probably little surprise that the Lions didn’t make much of an appearance on PFF’s Top 101 Players of 2018 list. The list, which was unveiled in installments all this week, only featured a single Detroit Lion, and he didn’t even play with the team for the entire year. Defensive tackle Damon Harrison Sr. came in at 40th on the list:Here’s what PFF had to say about “Snacks:”PFF’s ranking system is a little unclear. Players who graded in the mid-80s and even high 70s made the list. However Youth Sam Martin Jersey , guys like A’Shawn Robinson (89.9 grade) and Da’Shawn Hand (88.0) did not make the list. PFF notes in their article that postseason performance was taken into account for the list, so it’s possible players like Robinson and Hand simply didn’t log enough snaps to jump some of those players. And any list like this is going to have some subjectivity, even with a grading system in place. Either way, the Lions definitely need an influx of talent for 2019, and general manager Bob Quinn was quick to admit it in his postseason press conference.“I think big picture, we need more playmakers http://www.lionsauthorizedshops.com/aut … lay-jersey ,” Quinn said. “We need guys to make big plays.”