The Las Vegas Raiders put an end to their 2020 regular season in disappointing fashion as they closed on a 2-5 skid to finish 8-8 and miss the playoffs. This coming after a 6-3 start of course; very similar to that of 2019 when they started 6-4 and finished 7-9.
But is this a sign of more negatives to come for the Raiders?
This is a question I’ve been posing to myself the past couple of months since the Raiders’ season ended. To me, ever since Jon Gruden came aboard, the Raiders have become a wild card team, or lack of a better term, not so much in terms of the playoffs, but one you could never fully get your mind around.
They have won games they were surely supposed to lose, and then lose games once you start buying into the hype. As someone who loves to pick games, and lose my money doing so, the Raiders are of my nemesis teams the past two seasons because I could never get a good read on them.
But now, the jig may very well be up. I feel sort of comfortable going into next year thinking about the Raiders because we’ve had two solid years of data on them and now we know their game. That doesn’t particularly bode well for them as a franchise in the meantime.
I have my concerns, but let’s delve into them and see if, indeed, the Raiders have missed their boat like I fear they may have.