To steal a line from former head coach Josh McDaniels: “It’s an imperfect game.” That surely sums up the Las Vegas Raiders 16-12 victory over the New York Jets Sunday night.
The win was as ugly as you can get under Antonio Pierce’s stead as interim head coach — in place of McDaniels — but the team is 2-0 in the AP era. And the Raiders find themselves the Kings of New York by dropping the Giants and Jets in back-to-back-weeks.
But in the midst of a Sunday night game where it often looked like both the Raiders and Jets were trying to sprint in mud without shoes, there were moments of Silver & Black brilliance.