The Oakland Raiders were humiliated on national television Sunday Night. Though the final score was 27-10, anyone who watched knows it felt muc more like 52-10. The Raiders did absolutely nothing on offense and both scores came on extremely short fields thanks to turnovers by Washington. The defense tried to keep the Raiders in the game, but with no help from the offensive side of the ball, the defense couldn’t get the job done by themselves.
It was the worst performance I’ve seen by a Raiders team, maybe since the Gruden Bowl. During the game, my mind went back to the London game right before Dennis Allen was fired but to be honest, I think the Raiders may have played better in that game than they did in Washington Sunday night.
So who is to blame for the terrible showing?
Derek Carr
Without a doubt the team’s most important player, when Derek Carr isn’t playing well, the Raiders don’t play well. And Derek Carr had the worst game of his young career on Sunday. His first pass was an interception and it only went downhill from there.
Carr finished 19 of 31 for 118 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. And much like the score, that stat line is deceiving because believe it or not, it makes Carr look better than he did. The Raiders did not even eclipse the 100 yard mark as a team until late in the fourth quarter thanks to garbage time stat padding. Carr looked off all night long and was never able to turn the ship around. Lots of factors contributed to the loss but Derek Carr was first and foremost.
Jack Del Rio
It’s my belief that any time your team gets blown out, and especially when they get blown out after entering the game as favorites, much of the blame has to fall on the shoulders of the head coach. The head coach is the CEO of the team, responsible for the big picture. And in football, the big picture is Sunday. Jack Del Rio, like any other head coach, is responsible for having his team ready to play when the whistle blows but the Raiders were about as far away from being ready as I’ve seen them under Del Rio’s leadership.
It felt like we were watching a 10 a.m. East Coast game five years ago. The Raiders were sleep walking through the game, looking completely unprepared. And what’s worse, Washington looked like they wanted it way more than the Raiders wanted it and that’s a very bad look for a head coach.
Todd Downing
After calling two pretty good games against the Titans and Jets, Downing laid an egg in week three. At times it felt like we were watching the Gruden Bowl all over again. It felt like the Washington defense knew exactly what the Raiders were going to do and stopped them with ease. Unlike the first two opponents for Oakland, Washington had two full games of tape on Downing’s scheme and that, apparently, was enough for them to put together a perfect game plan.
It was a very bad day for Downing as he’s faced his first major piece of adversity as an offensive coordinator. It will be critical that Downing adjust as a result of this game. And even more critical that he learns to adjust mid game when things aren’t working. Because on Sunday, nothing Downing did worked.
Carr doesn’t do well in primetime. Can you please get some stats and his record for primetime games?
I made the same comment that the Washington’s defense looked like it knew every play Todd called. More frighteningly, the lack of effort by the o-line coupled with terrible predictability made the whole game play out like a Dennis Allen special.
There was something more to this game which stunk and made the performance ominous. It’s as if something happened that might really hurt the team long run. We’ll see for sure next game, but only time will tell. Got a bad feeling about this one.
Offensive line should be #1
BINGO !!!
Marquette King had a great game.
O line
W.r. address like faith was lost in then. Coop needed a few screen passes or something. Beast M. Only had 6 carries. His stats were off bit he only had 6 attmpts
you missed 5 more……..the O-line
They got manhandle….just like the 2002 super Bowl !!!
Just like I saided. Coaches in the booth suppose to be the big eyes on the fields. The dude Downing, seem to have no clue to what to call or do. David Amerson is a suspect Conner back. He’s not that good and in my opinion need to be replace
The only things that seemed to go okay was special teams. We all know the offense sucked. Play calling sucked. The defense did about what I expected, though I will note I thought Bruce Irvin would be more active in the game. This year I fear we are only going to be as good as our secondary allows.
Ken Norton Jr Sucks He Needs To Go,
That Zone Defense Is Terrible Need To Go Back To Old School Raiders Football Man To Man Bump & Run
Just an off game. It happens look at pats week one. Next week long forgotten blew out the saints. Our boys in silver and black will come out firing on all cylinders against bronchoes Sunday. Definatly hats off to D for at least keeping us in it Carr will be fine Crab and Beast mode will be fine and if Cooper can remember how to catch will be fine too. RAIDER NATION IN ALASKA