The Oakland Raiders have been an overwhelming disappointment this season. Yeah, that’s probably a kinder than deserved way of saying they’ve really stunk up the joint in 2017.
Or, to put it more succinctly – and in the words of tight end Lee Smith – the Raiders have really “pissed on their own leg.” It’s a sentiment though, that can be more accurately applied not to just one particular game, but to the entirety of the season.
A season that began with, what we all thought was legitimate Super Bowl buzz at the beginning of the season, has devolved into a series of flat performances, terrible losses, and a regression from some of Oakland’s key players – Derek Carr and Amari Cooper, chief among them.