Raiders: Notes from Week 14 loss to the Tennessee Titans

Things are starting to look bleak for the Oakland Raiders as they’ve now dropped three straight games. We need to get this team a win fast or else they’ll be cooked.

The walls are starting to close in on the Oakland Raiders‘ improbable 2019 season.

They lost this week 42-21 to the Tennessee Titans and have now dropped their last three-straight games by a total of 83 points (outscored 116-33) and have surrendered an average of 39 points a game during their current slide.

The Raiders are now a team in major crisis as the AFC West door has been shut due to their loss and the Kansas City Chiefs’ win.

And the AFC Wild Card door is slowly but surely closing as well with Buffalo and Pittsburgh — as well as Tennessee and Houston (who the Raiders lost to) — pulling away with two full-game leads over the Raiders for the 5th and 6th slots.

This current snag this team has hit seems to be doing them in and eliminating them from playoff contention entirely. Even worse, they’re now two losses away from not even being able to put together a .500 season.

It was just another lackluster performance by the Raiders. They were able to actually put some points on the board this week, but defensively, they reverted back to their old ways and got completely railroaded by one of the hottest offenses in football.

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Derrick Henry had another 100-yard game on 18 carries and Ryan Tannehill threw for 391 yards and three touchdowns as the Titans marched forward and shut out the Raiders in the second half 21-0.

But what’s even more alarming and dejecting is that the Raiders pass rush tallied a total of zero sacks in this game after taking so many strides in the right direction the past month.

Tennessee has let up 49 sacks this year, which is the third-most in football behind only the Carolina Panthers and Miami Dolphins. The Titans’ offensive line is playing worse than the New York Jets’ this year!

And you can’t register even one sack if you’re the Raiders? That’s a big gutshot to the defense’s morale, especially one that had been trending in the right direction like they’d been doing.

Next week is the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars at home. That’s a team that’s also coming off a blowout home loss this week, so I’d say they’ll come into Oakland ready to play and pull off an upset.

The playoffs look to be unattainable at the moment for the Raiders, but we still have three weeks left and 9-7 could be enough to sneak into the postseason field.