The Las Vegas Raiders picked a very bad day to have a very bad day.
This is a team that has reached the postseason once in the past 18 years, a team that had an inside edge on the seventh and final playoff spot in the AFC. And yet, at the exact moment they needed to win, against an opponent in Atlanta they should have woodshedded, the Raiders turned in a historically inept performance, and fumbled away exactly what they needed the most: any margin for error.
We’re nearing the final stretch of the NFL season, and while we’re not at the elimination-game stage of the proceedings, we’re within sight.