MEXICO CITY -- For three quarters, the Oakland Raiders' potent offense slept.
It backfired and could not get out of its own way. The strength of the unit, its massive and athletic offensive line, got owned by the Houston Texans’ defensive line.
With an Estadio Mexico crowd of 76,473 watching, Oakland’s offense gasped and wheezed and, as left tackle Donald Penn warned last week, needed to get its second wind. The question, Penn wondered, was when it would come.