{"id":263334,"date":"2025-09-29T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/263334\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:22:11","slug":"even-with-several-improvements-raiders-need-to-find-a-way-to-not-make-it-so-hard-on-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/263334\/","title":{"rendered":"Even with several improvements, Raiders need to find a way to &#8216;not make it so hard on ourselves&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two reasons the Raiders stayed competitive in this game despite committing four turnovers. The first being their defensive prowess.<\/p>\n<p>The defense didn&#8217;t allow the Bears to reach the end zone until the third quarter, holding them to three field goals in the first half. The Bears offense was limited to going 7-of-16 on third down and 1-of-4 in the red zone, and quarterback Caleb Williams completed 59.5 percent of his passes, his lowest mark of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t expect to turn the ball over like that and win. It almost doesn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; Pete Carroll said. &#8220;But we overcame it because the defense was so spectacular in the first half making those stops. They were great. It gave us a chance. The score could&#8217;ve been ridiculous after the first quarter, but it wasn&#8217;t. We learn, we grow and we have to do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/team\/players-roster\/maxx-crosby\/\" title=\"Maxx Crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxx Crosby<\/a> secured his first career interception after tipping a ball up in the air and recovering it. And Crosby could&#8217;ve potentially had another two interceptions on deflected passes as well.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his three pass deflections and interceptions, the Raiders edge rusher had three tackles for loss and a forced fumble on Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, we&#8217;re really close. We were right there,&#8221; Crosby said. &#8220;It came down to the last play. We&#8217;ve got to find a way to not make it so hard on ourselves. It&#8217;s the only thing we can do. It freaking hurts, it sucks. I hate losing. I know everybody in the locker room hates losing. So, we&#8217;ve just got to find ways to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are two reasons the Raiders stayed competitive in this game despite committing four turnovers. The first being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":263335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[137444,51096,51097,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-263334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-chicago-bears-at-las-vegas-raiders-2025-reg-4","9":"tag-home-centerpiece","10":"tag-home-latest-stories","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115286621876232283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}