Perhaps the Las Vegas Raiders should’ve practiced during the bye week instead of resting up and trying to get healthy as possible for Week 11.
Because what the team displayed on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins sure looked like a group that took a week off before having a cram session for the trip to Florida. And the result was a 34-19 shellacking of a defeat.
While the offense showed incremental progress forward — namely the aerial attack — under interim offensive coordinator Scott Turner, senior advisor Norv Turner, and interim offensive line coach Joe Philbin, the defense under Patrick Graham was in neutral and even in reverse at times.