Raiders week 5 Ballers & Busters vs Ravens

Another week of sifting through the rubble of another collapse trying to pick out the positives among the wreckage. It’s the third week in a row for that, something I have not had to do in quite some time. But it is an old familiar feeling, having done this series for ten years with the Raiders losing a lot more than they won over the first seven of those years.

This game felt over not long after it began. The Ravens through a 52-yard bomb on the very first play, scored a touchdown four plays later, then scored another touchdown off a Jared Cook fumble three plays into the Raiders’ first drive that was returned for a touchdown. It was a 14-0 Ravens lead in a total of 8 snaps of the ball with…