Teams in the NFL lose games for lots of different reasons. A ball bounces the wrong way, a kicker doinks a makeable field goal or extra point, a player falls down in coverage while the opponent runs into the end zone, a coach mismanages the clock, or a team is just flat-out beaten due to a lack of talent and execution.
There are countless possibilities, all of which are within the control of the coaches and players, or are explainable by dumb luck.
Then there’s the cause that has come up all too often, not just for the Raiders, but for many teams around the league in the past year or two: officiating.