Simply mentioning that the Raiders are 0–3 at the moment feels like an incredibly loaded statement.
Following their 24–22 loss to the Titans, a team featuring Derek Carr, Davante Adams and Maxx Crosby are buried quite deeply in the recesses of the AFC West. It is a place we cannot imagine, with even the wildest corners of our imagination, that they emerge from. Were they in another conference—another division, even—it would be understandable to pass this off as merely a bad bit of luck. But the Raiders are winless beneath Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert and Russell Wilson. That’s like sitting underneath the tire of an 18-wheeler.