The disguising of scheme and intricacy of Patrick Graham’s defense dwindled the last few weeks. This was in the hopes of taking the complexity out of things, yet, the vanilla alignments and formations the Las Vegas Raiders deployed defensively didn’t have resounding results.
Instead, for much of last Sunday’s game against the dilapidated Indianapolis Colts, it was the Silver & Black defense that looked discombobulated. None more so than three occasions:
- Losing all sense of gap integrity which allowed Colts running back Jonathan Taylor to gallop for an untouched 66-yard touchdown in the third quarter.