Las Vegas Raiders Thread

So I couldnt sleep on Sunday night (well I did initially then for some reason woke up about 3:10am) and so got up to see how the match was going.......well I got to see the Chiefs play. Cause we didnt. Aw, it was like watching us at the end of last season. The Defense was worn down and was a non-factor. We coldnt get going on offense at all (The DJax reception/interception was farcical, he actually caught the ball then allowed it to be knocked away from him). Terrible game. Having said that, with the month the organisation has had, its no surprise. No other team has probably had to face the month we have had, with Gruden going and then the Ruggs/Arnette scenarios. I really do feel for the players and the organisation.

Exactly Kev. Definitely a mark of how strong the team is as an organisation, but this should never have had to happen to them. We're not out of the race yet, but we really do need to blow the Bengals off the park on Sunday night

After watching that game unfold on Sunday night I can see that this team is going to struggle badly down the stretch. The defense are clearly feeling the pressure knowing they are not getting any help from a depleted and confidence lacking offense.

There were 3 massive 3rd downs in the first half that we gave up very poor 15 yard penalties to give life to the Bengals.

Our run game is not functioning with either Kenyan Drake or Josh Jacobs who is for some reason now being used as a pass catcher and this is making it easy for teams to double team Darren Waller or Hunter Renfrow. The O-line needs further improvement after the off season of waives and trades.

I am struggling to see even 3 more wins on the schedule after last week (Washington/Denver and maybe Cleveland) and at this point I would not be at all surprised to see us finish 6-11 and bottom of the division. I really hope I am way off but I has seen this car crash too many times...

We are nothing if not interesting. Now can we build on it against Washington?

close loss last night - it’s going to be a hard slog for the rest of the year if we can’t get some production out of our wrs.

Given that half of Cleveland was out with Covid last night it was not easy to prep for that game so I am very happy we won but still worried that our offense is regressing - even with all of our own injury problems!

I thought we had blown it with the interception but fair play to Derek Carr for putting that out of his head and coming back with a drive to setup the FG.

This season has been so weird - I cant even begin to predict whats going to happen for the last 3 weeks. Just got to enjoy the ride I suppose...

No matter what happens next week - I have to give credit to Rich Bisaccia and the Team. They have really put in a big effort to stay in contention for the playoffs with all that has gone on , losing HC and 2 top offensive players and a 1st rd drafted CB.

Great final drive with massive catches by Zay Jones and Hunter Renfrew. Daniel Carlson is becoming a real clutch kicker

Happy new year !

yep I don’t think we will beat the chargers on Sunday but progress has been made and let’s see how we go.

Really hope we can lock down a new head coach early and get a plan in place for next year to push on from this seasons positive improvement

It would be great to have Darren Waller back for sure but only if he is really healthy. We really miss that deep threat- I was hoping desean Jackson would be more of a factor for us but we just haven’t had everyone available to play since the Dallas game so that doesn’t help him getting settled in and take some attention off him.

I stayed up to watch the game and it was totally mental!! Very enjoyable result but I got put through the emotional wringer during it!

it was always going to be tough and after the fumble in the first half I never really felt we were able to get back into the game. A lot of miscues on the o line cost us momentum - that definitely needs to be tightened up next year. Alex leatherwood has struggled and the 1st round status hasn’t been justified.

still though I thought the team stayed in the game and was happy that they were in a position to tie late on. The defense did well to contain the bengals and keep them in contention.

lets hope 2022 is a better and less controversial year for the raiders!

Yes I agree with you - proud of the team and being a fan, something that hasn't always been true over the last 20 years since we were in the superbowl last.

yeah having both 1st round picks from 2 years ago flame out is always going to put the GM on the hot seat. His low and mid round picks have been great but Ruggs and Arnett let him down massively.

Yes we have a habit making hires based on previous ties to the club - Mark Davis will continue to follow that path I fear . I would like to see us hire a GM first and then a Head coach who the GM has a say in. The previous situation was not ideal - always felt that Gruden had the final say on who we brought in.

The path to the Superbowl is paved with "unstoppable" teams. I couldnt believe it watching that game as they collapsed!

I wasnt sure initially about the new management team but it certainly looks like they are a measured professional team. I like that they arent afraid to splash out and also that they got Adams and Chandler. It would appear that they are going to use the current O-line personnel which worries me a little but I'm assuming McDaniels thinks we have the right players, the training and system just needs tweaking. I'm glad that they seem committed to Carr and hopefully this puts an end to the uncertainty about his status. The AFC West will be insane this season! I'm thinking of the NFC East in the late 80s early 90s type insane!! Anyways its good to see football in some form is back, even if no-one has snapped a ball yet!

Delighted to see Derek Carr getting an extension for 3yrs.

Really good showing by Davante Adams last week - nice catch for the TD as well. Not a great day for Derek Carr but even with 5 turnovers we only lost the game by 5 points.

I do feel like the Chargers are going to be really motivated this year after how they threw away a post season spot last year. Khalil Mack is an excellent pick up for them and is going to be a nightmare with Bosa on the other side. A real test now is to rebound and get a win at home against the cardinals who will be smarting from the beatdown they got from the Chiefs.

So... that happened, We were in cruise control 1st half and then once Arizona got going we had no answer on offense. Credit to the defense , they kept us in it and only some moments of real quality from Kyler Murray we may have held on but just too many mistakes no offense to overcome.

The offense went very conservative in the 2nd half and O-line protection completely broke down , production on the ground was poor and we didn't take any time off the clock.

Need to build on the positives from the 1st half and kick on...

its been a season for strange results so who knows maybe we will beat Denver but if not it could get ugly very quick - kansas city up next after that!

We won!!! Well done us!!! Not even thinking about next week but this was nice to see. Great seeing another team get more penalties than us and we seemed to be much more settled in all aspect of play. It would be nice if..................no, I said I wasnt going to think about about next week and thats the way I'm keeping it!

Only caught the highlights this morning (and the lowlights at the end of the game)

but some positives to take going into arrowhead and losing by 1 pt isn’t bad but some of the decisions late in the game were very strange - 2pt conversion when an extra point ties it with 4 mins left , the 4th down play call where the routes got mixed up when maybe a quick slant or a run would have been better giving how well josh Jacobs was doing last night.

I know this team is 1-4 and hard to argue based on some of the performances. I feel like McDaniels still doesn’t have a good idea how to get the best out of what is there.

it’s probably a good week for the break to regroup and see what can be rescued out of the season.

Whats been really strange is that he has not found a way to get the ball to Darren Waller on any consistency this year so far - 16 catches in 5 games is way below what I expected. I understood Davante Adams would get more targets but I hoped that would leave more space for Waller and have better opportunities in the intermediate routes but its just not working out.