Las Vegas Raiders: Ranking the four 2021 nationally televised games
By Brad Weiss
The Las Vegas Raiders will play on the national stage four times this upcoming season, and we rank them in order by significance and intrigue.
In 2021, we will get to see the Silver and Black on the national stage four times, as the Las Vegas Raiders will play four games on national television. While that is subject to change late in the season, as it stands now, the Raiders will play on Sunday and Monday night, while also playing on Thanksgiving Day.
Here, we take a look at all four games, ranking them by significance and intrigue.
Las Vegas Raiders: Ranking the four 2021 nationally televised games
No. 4: Week 4 at the Los Angeles Chargers (MNF)
We kick off our rankings with a ‘road game,’ as the Raiders will travel to play the Los Angeles Chargers in an Away game. Though these games are never really road games for the Raiders, who travel well, this is still a divisional opponent who should not taken lightly, especially early in the season.
Las Vegas has a tough first two games, hosting the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night, and then going East on a short week to take on Big Ben and the Pittsburgh Steelers. After a stop home against Miami, they take on Justin Herbert and company in primetime in a game that not only they should win, but one they have to win.
If the Raiders are to do anything of substance, they have to win this first AFC West battle, and they will have the ‘road’ crowd backing them to do so.