The Raiders Almost Out Of Nowhere Beat The Falcons And Tank Their Draft

I wasn't gonna make a video for this game. In fact, as I'm sitting here right now, I'm thinking about whether or not I should stop. But I'm not going to, number one, because I'm a completionist, but number two, do you understand that if we lose this game, sorry, correct that, reverse it, if we win this game, we would've dropped from one to seven. And we saw all the people in the stands with the tank for Shador, just tank baby signs. Now, my hard stance on tanking is that I do not like it. Every time a game starts, I wanna win, I could die tomorrow, yada yada yada, right? But, when you get this far into the season, where winning literally doesn't matter, where nothing AP can do can help him maintain the job more than he already is going to or is not going to, not to say that he's a lost cause. If he's gonna keep the job, it doesn't matter how these last few games look. It's gonna be just Mark Davis thinking, okay, I'm gonna keep more, I'm gonna not. When you play a game like this, where you have 200 total yards, and your quarterback stinks, and you've got your third-string running back going down, and you can't get the ball to Brock Bowers, and this defense is playing outside its mind, trying to keep you in the game. Max Prosby's out for the year watching from home. I don't think he was there anyway. And you put your fan base through three and three-fourths quarters of absolute dog-watered bullshit, and then you start storming back. You score. The extra point gets blocked. If anyone out there put money on this football game, positively or negatively, the spread was five and a half. That's all I have to say about that. I'm not gonna talk about betting until I get a sponsor. The Falcons then go three and out, but there's a roughing the passer call. Thank you, referees, for being terrible at your job, propelling us further to the number one overall pick. But then the Falcons do the unthinkable. They go run, run, pass, give us the ball with two minutes to go. And each time on that drive, I'm thinking, well, one sack and this game's over. And Desmond Ritter looked like Joe Montana. Couldn't get touched. Well, one holding call. Oh, there's a holding call. Surely we're done. Nope. First down. He throws a strike to Jacoby Myers that we haven't seen him throw since he's been in the National Football League. And now you start thinking, oh, no. The most Raider thing of all time would be to win a game that they were thoroughly outplayed in with their third-string quarterback on a day where the game wasn't enjoyable to watch from the beginning and anyone that was rooting for you to win would now want you to lose because you put your fans through such nonsense through three and a half quarters. So now if you win this game, the people who once wanted you to win but now want you to lose because the game was so bad are going to be even more angry. There's not going to be a happy Raider fan that isn't related to Desmond Ritter if Jacoby Myers catches his Hail Mary and the ball's in the air and it felt like it was in the air for an hour. And then the ball reaches the end zone and go watch it. The ball touches Jacoby Myers' hands before being picked off. So now with three games to go, the Raiders are in line for the number one pick. We got the Saints, the Jags, and the Chargers. I don't know if it's in that particular order. I know the Chargers are leaking. I don't know if the Saints or the Jags are next. Both games are winnable games, especially with Aiden playing. And here's where you go, Aiden stinks! Okay, he stinks, but two interception Aiden is still better than whatever Desmond Ritter pretends to be from the quarterback position. And I am worried that because this team is playing hard we're going to find a way to win one of these games. And it's not going to be good. Again, I don't like to lose on purpose, but that game was against a team that was desperate to get into the playoffs, desperate to fight their way back into their division. And I know they have been playing well, but the fact that we had two shots there at the end zone to win the game with Desmond Ritter and Alexander Madison and Terrence Marshall Jr. That's a little scary. So we need to hold on tight for three more games. If we show some competitive fervor in the beginning, okay, then win the game, whatever. You're going to win, you're going to win. But please do not I'm trying to think of the word. Subject us, viewers to three and a half quarters of the worst football that the Raiders have played in a long time just to ruin the draft position. If you're going to win, play from the beginning. If you're going to lose, lose. Do not force us to watch that just to rip our hearts out in the end by pulling out a win in a game where we had no business winning. I wasn't planning on recording and I thought, how am I going to talk about this? And here I am. So, Merry Christmas and yeah, I don't know. That was wow. Make sure we're in that like button, comment away join the Patreon. Patreon.com slash allaboyraiders. We hit 25 members let's hit 26. Please be sure to subscribe. This draft only serves you. I love you guys. Yikes.