The Las Vegas Raiders dropped a brutal 20-9 primetime game against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 2. Veteran quarterback Geno Smith had an awful performance, completing just 55.8% of his 43 passes for 180 yards and three interceptions.
While these numbers look bad on the surface, watching the game was even more painful because Smith looked like a shell of himself. It should come as no surprise, then, that the advanced statistics and analytics were not kind to Smith either.
But these facts are presented for the sole purpose of explaining just how bad a performance Smith put together, and how close the Raiders still were in a game against a true contender.