Ten games – and only two wins – into this new regime and the Raiders offense has finally found its identity.<\/p>\n
But it’s not one to be proud of. Far from it.<\/p>\n
From playcalling to play execution, the Raiders are a quixotic conundrum when they have the ball. And that’s on a good day.<\/p>\n
On a bad night, like during Monday’s humbling 33-16 loss to the Cowboys in front of a raucous crowd and a national television audience, it’s, to be frank, embarrassing. And it was never more evident than on consecutive snaps deep in the Raiders’ own territory early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
On first-and-10 at their own 2-yard line, right tackle DJ Glaze was flagged for a false start, to push the Raiders back a yard.<\/p>\n
On the next snap, Ashton Jeanty was hit in the end zone – a common theme this season, the rookie running back getting popped before he could even reach the line of scrimmage – and was stopped before he could cross the goal line for a Dallas safety.<\/p>\n
In the micro sense of things, the offensive line has been an issue all season. And its latest incarnation – left tackle Stone Forsythe, left guard Dylan Parham, center Will Putnam, right guard Jordan Meredith, right tackle Glaze – had no answer for the newest Cowboys interior defensive lineman, Quinnen Williams, who was acquired in a deadline trade. Yes, left tackle Kolton Miller and right guard Jackson Powers-Johnson are both on injured reserve but putting Putnam, in his first career start at center, against Williams just seemed, well, diabolical.<\/p>\n
Though not as wild as how the Raiders started on offense. And that’s the macro look at things.<\/p>\n
Because if you thought it was borderline criminal what happened to Brock Bowers in only getting three targets – none in the second half – in Denver, wait until you hear what went down with Jeanty in the first half against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten games – and only two wins – into this new regime and the Raiders offense has finally…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":387992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,184655,51096,51097,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-387991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys-at-las-vegas-raiders-2025-reg-11","11":"tag-home-centerpiece","12":"tag-home-latest-stories","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115571802346203493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387991","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=387991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}