Last Thursday night the Raiders headed over to Levi’s Stadium to take on their current cross-bay rivals in the 1-7 San Francisco 49ers. What transpired was the clearest and most precise indicator of where the Raiders stand as an organization, a football team, and the Raider Nation as a fan base.
The Raiders returned nearly the same exact 2016 team that went 12-4 and that 2017 squad went 6-10. Somewhere and somehow the product on the field regressed. Be it poor scheme, attention to detail the stars of this team are no longer contributing as such. Luckily the genius of general manager McKenzie shines through.