Raiders are rolling with an interim Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator, a 4th round rookie QB, and still hanging in there with top tier teams.
They have shown a lot of progress since Mcdaniels was fired, but we have to assume they are still using a majority of his playbook.
The losses haven’t been blow outs, and actually look competitive since AP has taken over.
I get the negativity, but just look at it realistically for a second. I’m not 100% sold on AOC at QB, but he still is making progress. I’m all for drafting a QB in the 1st round and letting them battle it out for the starting spot.
Just my thoughts. When the Chiefs tied it up 14-14 at halftime, I knew it was going to be a struggle to win the game. They’re SB champs with a generational QB and HoF HC. At least it wasn’t a completely embarrassing loss. (Like the Bears game.)
Made this comment elsewhere, gonna drop it here too:
I just ran the numbers.
In the five seasons/10 games since Mahomes became QB1, not counting last night, the Raiders have lost to the chiefs 9 times by an average of 16.9 points. Only 3 of those losses have been what you’d call “One Possession”:
Here are the combined margins of victory per season
2018 - 39 total points
2019 - 49 total points
2020 - -4 total points (the only season with a win)
2021 - 66 total points
2022 - 19 total points
I don’t understand why people want to burn everything down when last night was technically better than our historical average against Mahomes, and it was done with a rookie QB, OC, and Head Coach.
Gruden & Carr only did better than last night’s margin twice in 6 games. Bissacia and Carr didn’t beat that margin in either of their 2 games. McDaniels and Carr had 1 of 2 games better than that margin.
Why is this sub holding AP & AOC to a much higher standard than the “Glory Days” of getting stomped by 27-39 points???

No idea why they expect much more out of AOC/AP. It’s weird. And interesting statistics!
Cheifs are much weaker this year though.
Why, because they don’t have tyreek? WR is the only position group you can look at KC and think “chumps”
Everywhere else they are still a top tier team. Their defense is strong as hell and they still have Majomes. Sure they aren’t literal lock-in favorites to win the super bowl this year, but don’t act like they’re some rusted husk of the team that literally just won the super bowl.
I hate this sub so very much sometimes