Oakland Raiders: Top 3 takeaways from Week 7 loss to the Green Bay Packers
1. This was a tough assignment
Before anything else can be said, context is necessary in evaluating this loss.
Sure, it doesn’t ever feel good to get beat down by several scores on the road. Sure, it was disappointing in that there was some guarded optimism that the Oakland Raiders could possibly get their statement win against an undoubtedly talented team.
But the reality is that the Packers are good. And just because the Raiders fell to them doesn’t mean that everything we’ve seen so far from the team is lost.
As stated previously, this week’s task was running into a buzz saw. Aaron Rodgers put up incredible numbers—becoming only the third quarterback ever to have 400 passing yards, five passing touchdowns, and a rushing touchdown in a single game.
To go along with this, the Raiders sorely missed a handful of players that made this even more of recipe for disaster.
Trent Brown’s absence could definitely be felt. The offensive weapons were limited while Tyrell Williams and Zay Jones were kept out of action.
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The Oakland Raiders have been bitten throughout the season by the injury bug, and it’s shown some areas of limited depth. It’s not necessarily something that could be controlled, but it’s an issue that compounds larger issues.
It didn’t help that the Raiders were playing on the road, either. The team is on the tail-end of a long trip away from Oakland that was bound to challenge them.
Looking at the schedule coming into the season, the Raiders knew that this was going to be a make or break road trip. They’ve done fairly well for themselves thus far, managing to go 2-2 now if London’s “home game” is included.
The team will have to rebound and end on a positive note as they wrap up the trip in Houston.
They won’t have to face a demigod quarterback, but they will have to start putting together some momentum before they head home to take on the Detroit Lions.
Conceivably, this has been the toughest stretch of games for the Raiders, but it’s a mixed bag moving forward.
A big loss against a good team shouldn’t signal that it’s the end of the world for Raider Nation. The Raiders need to keep on pushing forward and take advantage of the coming weeks like any football team with playoff aspirations would.