One of the troubles many West Coast NFL teams encounter is travel, especially when they have back-to-back football games on the East Coast. In each of the past two seasons under Jack Del Rio, the Raiders opted not to fly back home to Oakland when the team had two East Coast games in a row.
After the Raiders played the Buffalo Bills in 2017, they flew straight to Florida instead of going home. In 2016, Del Rio had his team stay in the state after they played the Jacksonville Jaguars and before they played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.