Oakland Raiders: The good, bad, and ugly from week three loss to Miami
By Kevin Saito
The Oakland Raiders choked away yet another game to fall to 0-3 on the season – time to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly from their week three loss.
If you’d mapped out how you thought the season would go for the Oakland Raiders, now that Jon Gruden is back at the helm, you probably wouldn’t have guessed that the Chucky Redux-era would begin 0-3.
And yet, here we are.
After another gut-wrenching, come from ahead loss, the Raiders now have fewer wins that the Cleveland Browns. And as if that little factoid isn’t daunting enough, they will now face those same Browns next week, trying to put a win on the board before the entire city of Oakland revolts, locks Gruden in a box, and dumps him off Fishermans’ Wharf.
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It’s yet another frustrating chapter, in this so-far, maddening book. For the third time in three weeks, the Raiders looked good in the first half. Solid, for the most part. Especially, the defense.
Then, after coming out of the locker room after halftime, they proceeded to stink up the joint. Again. The offense though, did score their very first fourth quarter points of the season – a 52-yard Mike Nugent field goal. So they have that going for them, which is nice.
As with the previous two games, this is a case of missed opportunities, blown chances, stupid mistakes, and poor decision making.
That has been the same heady brew that’s infected this team through the first two – now three – weeks of the season.
And it’s exactly why this team is 0-3, when they easily could – and probably should – be 2-1, at the worst.
Taking the Rams game out of the equation – though, they had plenty of opportunities to win that game too – the Raiders should have been able to finish off both Denver and Miami.
And yet, when the lights were the brightest, and the pressure the highest, they folded like Origami.
It’s a more than disturbing trend at this point, and one that really needs to be identified and corrected post haste. Until then though, let’s take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly from their week three loss to the Dolphins…