Raiders' Pryor hurting over poor performance

Unfortunately, the mechanical explanation is that Pryor has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee. Early last week, the injury seemed non-debilitating, but it got worse as the week progressed.Pryor's revelation of a sprained MCL was a news flash. Reports of his knee injury had been vague, and head coach Dennis Allen had seemed to indicate his quarterback was not seriously compromised."My knee's banged up," Pryor said after the game, speaking in a voice so faint he was barely audible. This was one woebegone young man, although when I asked him if he was discouraged, he said,Bar suppliers "Not discouraged. My leg is very sore and I'm out there trying to do my best, and it wasn't doing anything. I wasn't able to, and I wasn't myself. With more treatment, hopefully this thing cures up fast."Pryor very quietly said something about turning the knee in warm-ups Saturday. When I asked him if he ever got to the point of asking out, Pryor paused."Nah. I mean, I just knew when I had pressure I wasn't able to push the pocket and get out and move well and escape. (I knew when I) woke up this morning, I'm going to have trouble. Definitely confirmed it in the game."Because the Raiders don't give out a lot of injury information, details are hazy. Allen said Sunday of Pryor's knee injury, "That wasn't anything that was much of a factor during the week in practice."Pryor's account differed. Are coach and quarterback not communicating? Has Pryor been kinda hiding the extent of the injury from his coach? Or are the two simply not on the same page regarding what news is doled out to the outside world?

Allen said Pryor on Sunday "didn't look like he had the same explosiveness."But asked to assess Pryor's performance, Allen said, "Listen, we've got to be able to throw the football to have success."Against the Giants, Pryor was 11-for-26 for 122 yards with four sacks,Forklift forks one disastrous interception and a 40.9 passer rating."Obviously, I didn't have a great game," Pryor said. "Lot of fingers easily could be pointed at me.welcome to Cheap Francesco Smalto Shirts,free Shipping available. Buy Now!‎ I understand that."Pryor has thrown 112 passes without a touchdown. In that span, he has eight interceptions. By comparison, JaMarcus Russell's longest TD drought was 104 passes (five interceptions).That's bad, but at least the finger pointers now understand that Pryor didn't simply turn into a pumpkin. He has not mysteriously lost the quarterback magic he found/developed over the offseason, a shocking development that drastically altered the Raiders' quarterback plans and made Pryor one of the league's Hot Young Read-Option Guns.If Pryor has regressed to last year's level, when Allen and his staff had almost zero confidence that Pryor possessed big-time quarterback potential, there's a reason.Oddly, Pryor looked OK at the start Sunday. Already handed a 7-0 lead by the kick coverage team, he nimbly slipped out of a sack on his first play of the subsequent possession and hit Mychal Rivera with a 16-yard pass. Two plays later, on a read-option, Pryor picked up 9 yards, but it was obvious he didn't have his usual jet burst and couldn't cut.

That promising drive was snuffed on a holding call and Denarius Moore's back-to-back dropped passes.It was a crazy game, fewest bonehead plays wins, but the Raiders led 20-14 in the third quarter when Pryor threw his interception, aiming for Moore but picked off by Giants nickelback Terrell Thomas, who employed film-study knowledge of the Raiders.Pryor was villain and hero on that play, hustling back to try to tackle Thomas, whiffing, but preventing Thomas from scoring. No matter, the Giants scored three plays later.On the next series, Pryor, scrambling, hung up another interceptable pass but got away with it.This was one of those spin-it-any-way-you-want games. Since it was close, you could chalk up the Raiders' loss to sloppy play, penalties, drops and/or a lack of explosive running with no Darren McFadden, so there's no need to pin it all on Pryor.But he took it hard, and it was impossible to tell if his morose countenance was due to the loss, his play or the state of his knee. That's important, because if the knee gets better fast, the future is sunny. If not,welcome to high quality MICHAEL KORS Grade Wallets sale,best service and low prices. Matt McGloin, please pick up the white Buy cheap Armani Grade AAA Belts sale, Custom Fit Stripe Shirt and more.courtesy phone.