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Josh Jacobs opened up a spot of a Pandora’s container connected Sunday by implying the Raiders are blameworthy of sometimes sleepwalking done the aboriginal portion of shot games.
Jacobs expressed vexation aft Sunday’s 17-15 nonaccomplishment to the Washington Football Team that the Raiders hold excessively agelong to get going each week.
Among the criticisms helium leveled, Jacobs said the Raiders “coast a small excessively much.”
By Monday afternoon, Raiders interim caput manager Rich Bisaccia was good alert of his moving back’s complaints.
“I surely respect Josh’s thoughts. I’m not truly definite what seashore means, to beryllium honorable with you,” Bisaccia said. “We didn’t get disconnected to a large commencement connected offense. He is entitled to his opinion. We’d each similar to commencement faster. We’d each similar to decorativeness a batch faster than we person arsenic well. We’ll spot what the aboriginal brings successful those 2 categories.”
All that said, whether it’s not coming retired aggressively capable oregon lacking a consciousness of urgency, intelligibly thing has been amiss successful the sluggish mode successful which the Raiders commencement games.
The stats backmost it up, arsenic well.
The Raiders are averaging the 18th fewest first-quarter points successful the NFL astatine 3.5, and their 42 first-quarter points are their fewest of immoderate quarter. They are averaging 6.0 points successful the 2nd quarter, 6.5 successful the 3rd and 5.6 successful the fourth.
The Raiders person been outscored 72-42 this twelvemonth successful archetypal quarters.
Their 24 first-quarter archetypal downs besides are by acold their fewest. To enactment that successful perspective, they person 43 archetypal downs successful the 2nd quarter, 36 successful the 3rd and 45 successful the fourth.
Their 44.8 percent first-quarter possession stock is 29th successful the league, and implicit their past 3 games that stock drops to 35.4.
Raiders backmost Derek Carr, meanwhile, has compiled an 83.9 first-quarter backmost rating, which is his lowest standing of immoderate quarter. Carr has a 100.5 QBR successful the 2nd 4th QBR, 106.9 one the 3rd and 93.4 successful the fourth.
Carr expressed vexation implicit the dilatory starts connected Sunday, arsenic good arsenic the Raiders’ inability to covert much drives into touchdowns alternatively than tract goals. Coming up with explanations for the why, though, has been a season-long issue.
The dilatory starts person straight contributed to each six of the Raiders’ losses and made immoderate of their wins overmuch harder than they should person been.
“It’s frustrating,” said Carr. “I privation I could basal up present and interruption down the full thing. Put the movie connected and we interruption down each small item that matters. Each play has its ain story, each play, each series.”
While it’s been a constituent of accent each year, the Raiders simply person not been capable to get to the bottommost of the problem. At slightest not successful a mode that has provided accordant answers.
“I don’t truly cognize if it’s 1 peculiar thing,’ Bisaccia said. “We effort to bash antithetic things successful signifier to effort to get america going a small spot faster earlier.”
With 5 games remaining successful the play and the 6-6 Raiders’ playoff aspirations apt resting connected their quality to get to 11 oregon 10 wins, the Raiders are moving retired of clip trying to fig retired a solution.
“We gotta fig that out,” said wide receiver Hunter Renfrow. “Because it feels similar it, right? It seems similar the extremity of the game, erstwhile we’ve got to person it, we spell down the tract and get it for the astir part. We conscionable person to look internally.”
Contact Vincent Bonsignore astatine vbonsignore@reviewjournal.com. Follow @VinnyBonsignore connected Twitter
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