Las Vegas Raiders look to regroup after ’embarrassing’ loss

NEW ORLEANS — First-year Las Vegas Raiders coach Josh McDaniels, contemporary from a prolonged postgame assembly with staff proprietor Mark Davis after the Raiders’ first shutout loss in almost eight years, was solely 5 phrases into his media convention when the room went darkish.

Somebody had leaned on a lightweight swap.

The lights going out was an ideal metaphor for the Raiders’ exhibiting within the 24-0 defeat. And McDaniels took the blame.

“I apologize to Raider Nation for that efficiency and, once more, I personal that,” McDaniels mentioned. “That is my duty.

“If you are going to level a finger, level it at me. Clearly, I have to do a greater job of getting us prepared on sport day.”

The Raiders, listless and lifeless, fell to 2-5 on the season, and again into final place within the AFC West after profitable two of three video games, together with a seeming get-right 38-20 blowout of the Houston Texans final week.

However Las Vegas’ offense, which seemed so in sync every week earlier, was discombobulated by a protection that entered the day permitting 28.6 factors per sport, the second-worst such mark within the NFL.

As such, the Raiders’ offense didn’t cross midfield till its last drive, when beginning quarterback Derek Carr, who had been sacked 3 times whereas taking eight QB hits, was changed by Jarrett Stidham as a security measure, of kinds.

“Embarrassing,” mentioned Carr, whose 101 passing yards was the fewest of his profession in a sport he didn’t go away with an harm. “We’re so a lot better than that.

“It is going to be an incredible problem to see how we reply as a staff.”

The Raiders will spend the following week in Sarasota, Florida, practising on the IMG Academy in close by Bradenton earlier than taking part in on the Jacksonville Jaguars (2-6) on Sunday.

Sitting on the sideline because the clock wound down on the Raiders’ Halloween Weekend Horror Present within the Caesars Superdome, Carr mentioned he had an analogous feeling to the final time the Raiders have been shut out, on Nov. 30, 2014, in a 52-0 loss on the then-St. Louis Rams.

Carr was a rookie then, and the Raiders have been coming off his first profession win, after an 0-10, begin, they usually responded to the Rams blowout by profitable one other sport.

“You may converse into one thing since you’ve been by way of it,” mentioned Carr, who accomplished 15 of 26 passes with an interception and a 50.3 passer score, the third-worst of his profession. “It does give me some issues that I can put a finger on with sure guys and with myself to verify I am higher, to verify we’re higher going ahead.

“However we have to appropriate this tomorrow. We have to flush it as quick as we are able to and prepare to observe. As a result of the one factor that is going to repair it’s on that observe subject.”

Like determining how All-Professional receiver Davante Adams had only one contact — a 1-yard loss on a jet-sweep run — coming into the fourth quarter and completed with one catch, for 3 yards, on 5 targets.

Urgency, Carr mentioned, will likely be wanted by the Raiders this week with the season on the brink.

“You hope that is the final time [you get that kind of performance],” Carr mentioned. “That is what you hope.”

The primary 5 phrases McDaniels uttered, in the meantime, earlier than the lights went out?

“Clearly,” he mentioned, “that wasn’t ok …”

Enter darkness, earlier than the sunshine swap was flipped again on.

“Oh boy,” McDaniels mentioned. “We’ll begin over.”

He was speaking about his private feedback, not the Raiders’ season.