Raiders' star has confidence team can turn everything around
The Las Vegas Raiders have not had a good season, or even near the season they want to have. The three wins they do have all have come by way of beating their opponents for a combined nine points. With this offense on paper, they should beat some of these teams badly. But they aren't. […]
The Las Vegas Raiders have not had a good season, or even near the season they want to have. The three wins they do have all have come by way of beating their opponents for a combined nine points. With this offense on paper, they should beat some of these teams badly. But they aren't. In fact, they just suffered an embarrassing loss to the Chicago Bears.
They have the best receiver in football or one of the best. Davante Adams is certainly good enough to get an eventual Hall of Fame nod. They also have the best running back from last season in Josh Jacobs, who led the league in rushing. Jimmy Garoppolo isn't an amazing quarterback but average at best. He's certainly good enough to orchestrate a good offense like he did in San Francisco.
They have other weapons around those guys, like Hunter Renfrow and Jakobi Meyers, and they drafted two really good rookies in Michael Mayer and Tre Tucker. Yet, they are still one of the worst offenses in football and have yet to crack 20 points as an offense.
While he isn't happy with how things are going, Adams believes that the offense can turn things around.
"As long as I'm here, I have confidence, and do what I got to do, and do my part to make sure that I'm helping, you know, the guys around me, you know, and we all work together to try to figure it out," Adams said in the locker room after the loss to the Bears.
The roster has all of the tools to be good, yet the Raiders are 30th in scoring in the league and 27th in yards per game. So, clearly, what they are doing isn't working, regardless of the defensive wins they have gotten recently. Something obviously isn't working, and they are worse on offense this year without Derek Carr than they were last year.
But Adams is right; he is a guy who, if he has a great game, can win the game for a team on offense. He is one of those unstoppable "game wrecker" guys on offense. The Raiders could get everything turned around; however, I think they will not. Everything seems written in the sand that this will not work.
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