Baby steps. Success isn’t always linear or immediately guaranteed just because a team has a handful of Pro Bowl and All-Pro level players.
No team has displayed how true that is more than the 2022 Las Vegas Raiders. They have a quality quarterback, arguably the best wide receiver in the game, an edge rush that most teams would kill for, and a running back that’s capable of being a bell cow back. They sit at 2-4 because the NFL can just be weird like that.
However, their 38-20 win over the Houston Texans in Week 7 showed just what the ceiling for this team can be, and what fans should be expecting as Las Vegas faces teams that are in the process of rebuilding their rosters, and the schedule next month is littered with such teams.