Raiders are rolling with an interim Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator, a 4th round rookie QB, and still hanging in there with top tier teams.
They have shown a lot of progress since Mcdaniels was fired, but we have to assume they are still using a majority of his playbook.
The losses haven’t been blow outs, and actually look competitive since AP has taken over.
I get the negativity, but just look at it realistically for a second. I’m not 100% sold on AOC at QB, but he still is making progress. I’m all for drafting a QB in the 1st round and letting them battle it out for the starting spot.
Just my thoughts. When the Chiefs tied it up 14-14 at halftime, I knew it was going to be a struggle to win the game. They’re SB champs with a generational QB and HoF HC. At least it wasn’t a completely embarrassing loss. (Like the Bears game.)
Made this comment elsewhere, gonna drop it here too:
I just ran the numbers.
In the five seasons/10 games since Mahomes became QB1, not counting last night, the Raiders have lost to the chiefs 9 times by an average of 16.9 points. Only 3 of those losses have been what you’d call “One Possession”:
Here are the combined margins of victory per season
2018 - 39 total points
2019 - 49 total points
2020 - -4 total points (the only season with a win)
2021 - 66 total points
2022 - 19 total points
I don’t understand why people want to burn everything down when last night was technically better than our historical average against Mahomes, and it was done with a rookie QB, OC, and Head Coach.
Gruden & Carr only did better than last night’s margin twice in 6 games. Bissacia and Carr didn’t beat that margin in either of their 2 games. McDaniels and Carr had 1 of 2 games better than that margin.
Why is this sub holding AP & AOC to a much higher standard than the “Glory Days” of getting stomped by 27-39 points???

No idea why they expect much more out of AOC/AP. It’s weird. And interesting statistics!