Oakland Raiders: The good, bad, and ugly in season opening loss to Rams

Bad: The Second Half

The second half though, was, essentially, a mirror image of the first. After they came out of the break, the wheels just fell off for Oakland. It was clear that the Rams spent time making adjustments to what they saw in the first half, and the Raiders – didn’t.

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Nor did they do a decent job of anticipating what was to come – which is, of course, inexcusable.

The Raiders looked befuddled, confused, and wholly ineffective. It was like the 2016 Raiders went into the locker room at halftime, and the 2017 Raiders came back out to play the second half. Fans in the Black Hole must have felt like they’d been transported into Bizzaro-World.

Over the final thirty minutes, Carr was skittish in the pocket, nowhere near as sharp, and, quite frankly, looked horrendous. It was like they swapped Carr out with Nathan Peterman at the break.

After such a rock solid first half, Carr threw up a stinker of a stat line over the second, going just nine-of-16, for 104 yards, and two horrendously costly interceptions – the nail in the coffin being, Marcus Peters‘ uncontested, crotch-grabbing 50-yard pick-six that provided the final 20-point margin of victory for Los Angeles.

After the break, the Raiders allowed LA to hold the ball for twenty minutes, to just ten for Oakland. They outgained the Raiders in total yardage over the last 30 minutes 267 yards to just 141 yards. And oh yeah, outscored them 23-0.

Carr directed five drives in the second half that went, punt, punt, punt, interception, interception returned for a touchdown.

It was an absolutely dreadful half of football, and the Raiders looked like a completely different – and utterly horrific – team over the final 30 minutes of play.