FLASH RECAP:
Dan Carpenter's 38-yard field goal with 38 seconds left gives Miami (6-4) a victory over Oakland (2-8) before an announced crowd of 65,113 at Dolphin Stadium on Nov. 16, 2008.
Chad Pennington moves the Dolphins 61 yards in 10 plays to set up Carpenter's game-winning kick after Johnnie Lee Higgins puts the Raiders ahead 15-14 on a 93-yard punt return for a touchdown with 4:30 remaining.
With its fourth straight loss, Oakland falls to 1-5 under interim head coach Tom Cable. Oakland fails to score an offensive touchdown for the third straight game, extending its no-TD streak to 13 quarters.
Ted Ginn Jr. scores on a 40-yard end-around and Patrick Cobbs has a 10-yard TD run for the Dolphins.
Janikowski kicks 21- and 37-yard field goals for the Raiders, but a 46-yard attempt in the third quarter is no good after the ball strikes the right upright.
The Raiders' JaMarcus Russell is 15-of-22 passing for 156 yards, but he engineers only two scoring drives (both field goals).
PRIME-TIME PLAYERS:
WR Ted Ginn Jr. — Has 93 total yards on 4 catches for 51 yards and 2 rushes for 42 yards and a TD. Ginn's 7-yard catch to the Raiders' 28 on fourth-and-five keeps the Dolphins' game-winning drive alive.
QB Chad Pennington — Is 16-of-22 passing for 174 yards and a 95.6 efficiency rating. Pennington is 4-of-5 passing for 51 yards on the Dolphins' 61-yard drive, culminated by Dan Carpenter's game-winning field goal.
WLB Joey Porter — Has 1.5 of the Dolphins' 6 sacks.
PR Johnnie Lee Higgins — Returns a Brandon Fields punt 93 yards for a touchdown, giving the Raiders their only lead at 15-14 with 4:30 remaining.
DE Jay Richardson — His third-quarter sack on Chad Pennington nets a safety, reducing Miami's lead to 7-5.
WR Ronald Curry — Contributes 6 catches for 73 yards. Curry had only 8 catches for 74 yards in eight previous games this season.
KEY STATS:
The Raiders haven't scored an offensive touchdown in 13 quarters.
Oakland allows 222 rushing yards, the eighth time in nine games the Raiders surrender 116 or more rushing yards.
Oakland surrenders 6 sacks, increasing its total to a whopping 19 the past four games.
THEY SAID IT:
Raiders RB Justin Fargas
"You can’t have an offense that doesn’t score points. We have to pick up our side of it.”
"We keep putting ourselves in these dogfights. You don’t want them to come back and bite you. When you’ve got a team down, you’ve got to figure out how to put them away. Having last-second wins is not something you want to be hoping for every time.”
Dolphins WLB Joey Porter
BY THE NUMBERS:
0: Raiders offensive TDs the past 13 quarters.
2: False start penalties on Raiders OLT Kwame Harris, after Oakland has a first-and-goal at the 5. They eventually settle for a Sebastian Janikowski field goal.
4 of 28: Raiders' third down conversions the past two games, including 2 of 11 against the Dolphins.
7: Oakland losses the past eight regular-season games against Miami.
52.7: Average yards per punt on six attempts by Oakland's Shane Lechler, including four inside the Miami 20-yard line.
DID YOU KNOW?:
Johnnie Lee Higgins’ 93-yard punt return for a touchdown is the second longest in Raiders history. Greg Pruitt had a franchise-best 97-yard punt return against Cleveland on Oct. 2, 1982.
The Raiders are 8-7-1 in regular-season road games against the Dolphins, including 5-2 at Dolphin Stadium (formerly Joe Robbie Stadium.
Ted Ginn Jr.'s 40-yard rushing touchdown on the game's opening drive is the first by a Dolphins receiver since 2003.
Dolphins WR Ted Ginn Jr., left, avoids a
tackle by Raiders CB Nnamdi Asomugha.
