Poet TS Eliot may as well have been describing the 2017 performance of the Oakland Raiders, when he wrote, in his poem The Hollow Men, “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
If you sat through the drek that was Oakland’s season finale against the Chargers, you would have seen a team that most definitely went out not with a bang, but a whimper. And not a particularly loud whimper at that.
Oh, they made a game of it – for about a quarter and a half, anyway.