Two straight wins over two really bad teams making terrible decisions at the quarterback position had the Raiders feeling fairly good about themselves. They weren’t pretty wins, by Derek Carr’s admission, but they counted just the same.
Coming away with a W can have a way of glossing over a lot of the concerns in that game, let alone previous games. So, what of the game just before those two?
That was the game in Mexico City against the Patriots in which the Raiders were down 30-0 by the end of the third quarter.