The Las Vegas Raiders had momentum. They had an challenger who couldn’t stop shooting itself in the foot.
They likewise had head coach Josh McDaniels. So they lost.
Las Vegas was in the middle of of capacity prime time resurgence late Sunday night. After falling behind to the Pittsburgh Steelers 23-7, a Davante Adams goal catch and occurring two-point conversion had made it a one-possession videogame. Pittsburgh’s three-and-out that followed lasted simply 62 seconds, developing area for a possible game-tying rating as the clock ran down on the 4th quarter.
But dealingwith fourth-and-short, in an 8 point videogame, McDaniels decided for a field objective.
Twice.
And, as a benefit for this outstanding absence of foundation, was served a 23-18 defeat.
The veryfirst confusing kick choice came with 3: 11 to play. After a snap violation cleaned out fourth-and-one, McDaniels chose to have Daniel Carlson effort a 48-yard field objective. The kick was excellent, however a utilize charge on DeMarvin Leal apparently bailed out the Raiders.
Leverage is called on Leal and the drive continues pic.twitter.com/VZtEJK8MqU
— Mr Matthew CFB (@MrMatthew_CFB) September 25, 2023
Las Vegas got a set of fresh downs, moved to the Steelers’ eight-yard line. McDaniels was approved break by the football gods. He then spat in their dealswith.
Facing fourth-and-four in a videogame where he’d currently transformed one of 2 4th downs, the second-year head coach decided for the field objective onceagain, this time with just 2: 22 to play in an eight-point videogame. Nevermind the reality Davante Adams — 13 captures for 172 lawns and both the group’s goals — hadactually been a force unto himself by that point. McDaniels truly, actually desired that field objective and reliedon his 31st-ranked defense to do the rest.
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The 26-yard kick was excellent, and now the Steelers just required a initially down to efficiently ice the videogame. They got it, and after the Raiders burned all their timeouts Vegas got the ball back at their own 15 with 12 seconds left. Jimmy Garoppolo tossed an interception and that was that; a videogame McDaniels was in position to win endedupbeing a loss and awful memories of the 2022 season were dugup back to the surfacearea.
McDaniels’ task security was in concern priorto Week 3. Now he looked down an 8 point deficit with less than 4 minutes to play and twotimes — twotimes! — chose for 3 points rather of what might haveactually been a game-tying goal. This was a male who, whether he comprehended it or not, was playing to lose.
Raiders kick on 4th-and-4 on PIT 8
WP Go: 15.8%
WP Kick: 10.2%A huge mistake by McDaniels, per our design.
— Seth Walder (@SethWalder) September 25, 2023
After the videogame, McDaniels