Raiders Prove They're Frauds After Gutless Rams Loss.

Well, we had a chance. We had a chance to write that narrative a different way. Win a game you're supposed to win, and you don't. I mean, I don't... Look, I'm choosing today to not look at any positives from this game other than one player in particular, and he's on my headlines here. You can probably guess which one it is. I do not care that we scored 21 in the fourth. I was getting excited that maybe we could steal it, but when you're down the famous 28-3, you come out with just a gutless effort a nothing performance the offense can't convert short yardage situations the defense can't the defense can't stop a nosebleed and you're getting cooked by Puka Nacua and nobody else five yards of a pop every time they hand the ball off and you lose four straight games you now lost your ability for me to take you seriously um we thought going into the season that we were going to be a bad team that could be competitive and we were tricked after winning the first three games into thinking that maybe we could be something more than that and i'm here to tell you that's not the case if you expect um Geno Smith to beat us tomorrow and have a revenge game i think that would be the wise the wise bet to make and uh we have a lot to discuss and i'm going to go down the line here of all the people who are to blame for this and then to try to match it with a little bit of perspective because we got a lot to talk about and well look we're just not there yet it was fun to think for a little that we are there but we're just not and one day i think we are going to be with a lot of the pieces that we have here on the staff and with the team but for right now we're just not there yet and if you want to flood the comments with the i told you so be my guest i choose positivity it doesn't work out Now we fall back down to the realism world. The Raiders are on a three-game losing streak, but it's the weirdest three-game losing streak I've ever seen because with each loss, I guess except for the Patriots' loss, my confidence seems to be growing in their ability to compete with the best of the best, even though they keep losing the games. I mean, they lost to the Chiefs and the Bills by a combined six points. And the fact that it's still sitting at a 66% chance for the Rams to win this game on Calshi is wild to me I think there is some extreme value in purchasing the yes contract for the Raiders if you put 25 on that if the Raiders win outright it's $70 payout 26 cents obviously you have different point spreads here you can go down to if you're more comfortable with that anytime touchdown first TD I like the Raiders in this game Davante Adams is out six to ten weeks we're scoring 30 points per game and we can't even run the football yet imagine what we're going to be able to look like when we start playing up to our full potential now if you are interested in checking out Kalshi you can use code all aboard to instantly get 25 when you trade 25 and the reason why Kalshi is so unique and different and why I prefer it over your traditional sports book is because unlike your traditional sports book where you're betting against the house on Kalshi you are trading purchasing yes or no contracts with the market that's set with peer-to-peer trading and you can trade on anything you want sports media movies politics you name it Kalshi has it yeah so we typically do we'll go instant game reaction we'll look at the box score which is completely irrelevant and then i'm just going to go down my game notes and then just just set people ablaze here um none of this matters to again besides this man right here and maybe this man right here uh the team stats are completely irrelevant the first half of this game was what this game was it was good effort and i don't i don't want to be misconstrued and say that i don't think that the effort wasn't there in the second half it was there but i'm gonna tell you where the game is lost right here right here third down three for 14 is horrific two for five on fourth down imagine if you convert two more of those Then you have a game to talk about 6 for 64 not bad We actually won the turnover battle Which is the only reason this is even relatively close But time of possession we were horrific in Because again in the red zone They're 5 for 5 and we're 1 for 5 And we can't run the football 48 yards rushing I know we got down early But holy ---- Another game and I know Ashton was awesome Receiving Toward the end of the game when nothing mattered But another game where he's 8 for 15 1.9 man A fourth round rookie Is averaging 4.5 Making things happen Every time Mike Washington touches the football I'm done with the excuses Brock did his thing Ashton did his thing over the air Michael Mayer was okay Jalen Hailor is a gigantic waste of space and money And we'll get to Trey Tucker When we get to Trey Tucker Defensively Kobe Dean had a nice play on a kind of a lucky interception Jeremy Chin forced a fumble J.J. Biggs, or no, sorry, J.J. Biggs forced the fumble Tonka, I thought he was pretty impactful He was in the backfield a lot, one sack And then Max Crosby, sackless Multiple meanings to that Defense is booty. Defense is straight booty. Now, again, I don't want you to be misconstrued. It's not about the effort. The effort in the second half was there, and they forced fumbles But in terms of personnel and ability, they're booty. They stink. They can't stop the run. And if you can't stop the run, you need to get lucky with a Matthew Stafford sideways pass that bounces off Cody Parkinson's hands, who, by the way, was like Rocky Balboa out there coming into the game with one leg. And look, the Stukes' play at the end of the game was not his fault. He couldn't see anything because his face mask was getting grabbed, and maybe that would have made the game even a little bit closer. But we have some good players on defense, but it's a lot of young players, and it's a lot of Robbie Leonard not knowing what's going on. We'll get to the coaching staff in a little bit. I'm just going down my notes here. Special teams was pretty good today. I know Matt Gay missed a field goal, but that's going to happen. I appreciated the wrinkle on special teams where they only had Dylan Loughby back there, so they had to kick it to him, and he was pretty good running the ball back. No more tush-push. Thank God. We did a normal quarterback sneak, and nothing bad happened. Sean McVay versus Robbie Leonard was the matchup that we should have known from the beginning. We should have talked about that more. I don't know what this means. I don't know if this means that Kubiak's calling the wrong plays, But in the beginning of the game And I think I'm going to do a film session here Coming up, we're going to bring that back In the beginning of the game I mean this is kind of more of my instant reaction In the beginning of the game We ran multiple play actions I think they were both to Michael Washington That if handed off Would have gone for like 10 yards Like there were huge holes I know it's like pass pro Instead of run pro, but there were huge holes That if he would have just been handed the ball Which I know is just not how it works he would have like been gone so i i don't know if it's like the defense calling an audible to get out of the right play and and they knew it wasn't going to be a run so they dropped everybody back but i thought that was just weird but look robbie leonard specifically or he's not going to get fired i'm not i'm not ready to give up on him the guys are playing hard but he's just not there yet and Sean McVay we talked a lot and and i maybe mistakenly compared this game to the Jeff Saturday game, or to the Mariota Commanders game, or to the Tyson Becht Bears game. Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford can be competitive and be really good against any team in the league with just them out there. And they got Puka and Kyron Williams. This isn't exactly the Jeff Saturday game. And Robbie Leonard's a first-time DC, and he looks like it. When he's going up against somebody like Sean McVay, I mean, he's going to look horrific, and they looked horrific today. Defense, again, in the second half was good. I don't care. If you go down 28-3, it's not easy to win those games. I would imagine the people down 28-3 historically, save for the greatest quarterback ever, have a hard time coming back. And the offense wasn't great either. But holy moly, the defense was bad. Like, horrifically bad. I don't want to keep harping on the Max Crosby thing, but this revenge tour is put to bed. He is a non-factor out there. He's just jumping on piles and doing nothing. He's doing nothing. And he's been on teams with worse lines than this to be able to generate pressure. And he's just doing nothing. There's some obvious passing downs, and he's not making an impact. I think trading Stukes was good again, and there are some bright spots here. It's just I'm letting the frustration take over me right now because it was just nice for a little bit to think that this could have been something, and you lose two close games to the Bills and the Chiefs that really make you think, okay, well, this is a game you should win. And now I'm expecting us to lose next week to Gina Smith and the Jets, who just lost to the Dolphins. Maybe you win this game and get back on track To be 4-4 but I'm going to tell you right now I'm done with Kirk Cousins I'm done with him It's not really his fault But he's limited Physically and athletically he is limited And I just want to put this out there I'm not ready to bench Kirk Cousins because of his bad football Okay He's been pretty good I think we can all agree that he's been better Than we thought he was going to be And his stats are going to be his stats like he comes he fights back and he puts up some numbers in my personal opinion at this point i think Fernando Mendoza would give us the better chance to win and the reason i say that is because at halftime you have six points it doesn't get any worse than how our offense looked in the first half of this game it gets no worse and if you just cannot run the ball okay you cannot run the ball you need to be able to pick up yards in a different way and Trey Tucker is very good and Brock Bowers is very good. Great. Incredible. But if they take these two guys away, you have nobody else to throw to that can separate. Michael Mayer is a possession guy. Ashton Gentry is a running back. And there were a few times in this game where Kirk Cousins stepped up in the pocket. And if he had the ability of Fernando Mendoza, he would have picked up 15 to 20 yards. But he can't because he's Kirk Cousins. And I wrote in my notes, Kirk Cousins' brain is not elevating the people around him to justify having Fernando Mendoza not be in the game to use his athleticism to elevate those around him. Because in the red zone, Fernando Mendoza could scramble for some touchdowns. I truly believe that if Fernando Mendoza played in this game, we would have had more first downs and more points than if Kirk Cousins played this game. I feel really bad saying that because I think it's coming off like I want to bench Kirk Cousins for his negative play. He's been fine. He's been good to great at times. And he's finally got a little bit of a rapport with Trey Tucker. And I know they're probably not going to start Fernando Mendoza in New York on the road against Aaron Glenn. But he's got to play. We know what this team is, I think, at this point. We're more than a quarter of the way into the season. We're a team that could be a pain in the butt, but right now is not ready to compete for a playoff spot. Six to seven wins is probably where we land, which is what most of us thought eight or nine if you're lucky and you weren't lucky in the Chiefs game or the Bills game I personally think Fernando Mendoza just gives us a better chance to win at this point the only reason Kirk Cousins is in there is for his ability to diagnose a defense and pick apart the defense and score points more consistently than Fernando and in this game he just didn't do it and it just wasn't there and we needed some spark and if you want to salvage this season, if you're serious about trying to win games, I think Mendoza is the answer for all those run game deficiencies and red zone deficiencies. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you should consider subscribing because we are under 200 away from 17,000 and about 50% of you that are watching are not subscribed. So if you do then cure some of my ailments, mental ailments watching this team, that'd be much appreciated. I believe in this staff. I think this is a good young staff that's proven that they can motivate men. Clint Kubiak has proven to be able to scheme up people open and call decent plays. And Robbie Leonard has been able to motivate them to get to the quarterback at a decent clip and force a decent amount of turnover. But schematically, they're just not there yet. And they're getting outcoached, but that's okay. We don't need heads to roll. We need to stay the course. we need to understand that this is a team that had the first pick in the draft last year and it's a first time coach, a first time coordinator and we're competitive in a lot of these games and even in this game where we were competitive in the first half, they fought back and I think this is, this coaching staff has shown that with better personnel they can really be a good coaching staff and as much as I'm dunking on Robbie Leonard for getting out-schemed by Sean McVay almost everybody in the league does and it's a first time coordinator and the way you learn if you have the right guys in the building is to be able to learn from this, is to be able to, the next time we play Sean McVay, it looks different, the next time we play Kyle Shanahan who runs a similar offense we're able to go to this memory bank play and say, okay, well this is what happened against the Rams, so this is what's going to happen against 49ers, blah blah blah, but for right now I think this losing streak is going to continue because of our youth and inexperience and it's unfortunate, but I do think that's the writing on the wall but the way to counteract that youth and inexperience is to prove that you're getting better is to make plays every single time you're out there and Trey Tucker again um I think it's in my ticker here about five for 103 and a touchdown continues to prove why you know this Raiders wide receiver room when people were talking about it they didn't talk enough about Trey Tucker on pace for over a thousand yards over eight touchdowns continuing to make plays and living up to um what Clint Kubiak said that he's the most conditioned athlete he's ever seen he's ever been around excuse me and uh i'm really proud of the development of Trey Tucker and i do hope we extend him but i wonder if he could even be more unlocked again with Fernando Mendoza in the game because if they know we have to pass and they can just casino blitz we just have no chance and there are so many teams that have a better chance because they have a quarterback you don't even have to be Josh Allen even just just Jordan Love can scramble Baker Mayfield can scramble. And at a certain point, you have to sit down here and evaluate this whole team. We can't run the football with Ashton Janty. I don't know what it is. We'll watch the film. The film watchers tell me. We cannot convert on these third and fourth and smalls and shorts. And it's killing us. And Trey Tucker is making an impact with a quarterback who is immobile and who doesn't have as strong of an arm as the guy on the bench who you spent your first pick on. And I'm sure Kubiak's going to say, Kirk's our guy, Kirk's our guy. He's running the offense, blah, blah, blah. I just think personally the best chance to win is Fernando Mendoza. I'm proud of the effort, but the defense is just not there. And the offense, especially in the running game, is just not there yet. And there are going to be some bumps in the road to rebuild this thing back to the top. But we were never winning the Super Bowl this year. And now it looks like the team that we all thought we were going to be coming into the season is the team we are. a team that's overall not that good but that can be a pain in the butt on any given quarter any given Sunday, Thursday or Monday, um I'm not going to sit around here with the Kubiak press he takes way too long to get here so I think that's going to be it for me, um I'm going to have some shout outs to do on Monday's video for new patrons and YouTube members if you want to become a patron YouTube member it does help out the channel tremendously shout out to my five and ten other patrons and YouTube members make sure to hit that like button comment away and please be sure to subscribe to Sprout on the Charge to you I love you guys I'll see you