So what can you do when your team performs as poorly as these 2018 Raiders? Just wish it into the cornfield son!
The Raiders looked abysmal against a spirited division rival yesterday. Against the Chargers nothing seemed to work consistently and the game plan could've been questioned by a five year old. Why are they doing this when the other team is doing that? Why aren't they utilizing this when the down and distance dictates that? Who's in charge?
Who's in charge is the man who ripped the heart and soul out of the defense; Jon 'Clucky' Gruden, that's who. He's the Head Coach who's proving that the game of football does pass by retired coaches looking to get back into the game. Every decision he's made this season has been questionable. And everything we see out of the team on the field adds questions to the questions.
One really big question of a question is what made Gruden think QB Derek Carr was ready to run his complex offense when Carr seems like he's still broken mentally from injuries suffered the past two seasons? If ever there was a high paid quarterback who looks lost on the battlefield more times than not, it's Carr. Love the guy for his passion, but it's performance that gets rewarded in sports. Carr is failing big time as a lead performer.
Is Carr's poor performance on him or is it on Gruden maybe putting too much in his head? Again, questions on top of questions. All I know is that the Raiders have much talent on offense and show promise on defense, but from the first regular season game they've come up short on game planning opponents for four quarters. They're as inconsistent in their play as the coaches are in calling plays.
And what good might come out of all this inconsistency to date for the Raiders? They now know what they have in an unretired head coach that was once considered an offensive coaching guru and quarterback whisperer. Instead of installing a flexible and stabilizing rudder to steer the ship, the Raiders have purchased a $100 million anchor that's sinking them toward the sea bottom of the league. They're likely to be stuck in the muck and mire as a bottom feeder for the entire 10 years of the anchor's contract.
So if the gambling folks thirsting for a football team in that oasis in the desert think they've discovered a sunken ship full of glittering pirate treasure, they should take another look. It's an old, dried up Ghost Ship, a relic, and it ain't floating nowhere near the surface of commerce and competition anytime soon. Captain Gruden has seen to that.
Chargers 26
Raiders Lost At Sea
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