Sunday’s showdown with the Chargers at Allegiant Stadium is a chance for Raiders fans to give the team the raucous home-field advantage they will need.
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Interim head coach Rich Bisaccia chose to go for it on fourth down in the fourth quarter, leading to a Raiders touchdown.
Raiders were steady enough in all three phases of the game to pull off a critical road victory.
While off-field drama has made it difficult, this Raiders team has somehow managed to keep its focus on football.
The Hall of Fame football coach was a winner and a Super Bowl champion, and that’s only a small part of his story.
The third-year back firmly put the Raiders on his shoulders in the second half against Denver at Allegiant Stadium, leading to a 17-13 win.
The defense absolutely carried the Raiders to victory. They have won two straight and remained in the hunt for a playoff berth because of this side of the ball.
No team penned a more dramatic storyline this past year than the Raiders — the local NFL side was a night at the theater unto itself.
If a playoff berth depends on the Raiders winning out, the team seen Monday beating Cleveland can’t accomplish such a goal.
The Raiders nearly lost to a Browns team missing 18 players, including eight starters.
It has been some time coming, the Entertainment Capital of the World also being known as such when it comes to sports.
A league forever immersed in hypocrisy when it came to sports gaming is expected to award the 2024 Super Bowl to Las Vegas on Wednesday.
In a game Kansas City led 35-0 and won 48-9, thoughts of blowing up the entire Raiders mess and starting over took center stage.
The Raiders were awful, abysmal, abominable, atrocious. So much for Rich Bisaccia’s process this week. The Raiders were unprepared and overmatched.
Rich Bisaccia has made a habit of talking process, of how important those meetings and practices are leading up to a game, when wins and losses are all that matters.