Silver And Black Pride
The Week 12 blowout loss to the Cleveland Browns showed just how far off the 2025 Las Vegas Raiders are from being a competitive team in the league. Both clubs came into the game at 2-8 and, despite having a quarterback making his first NFL start, the Browns jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter and it was at least a two-possession contest from there on out.
Meanwhile, the majority of the Raiders’ young players continue to ride the bench because head coach Pete Carroll refuses to play them, giving the organization no direction regarding the bigger plan or long-term vision. So, once again, there’s little to no room for optimism in this week’s winners and losers column.
It’s the same thing every week. The Raiders continue to put players on the field who have no future with the team, only to lose by multiple possessions for the sixth time this season. Meanwhile, Carroll has the audacity to continue to say that the reason why rookies like Caleb Rogers, Charles Grant, etc. aren’t playing is because he’ll only put guys into the game who can help the team win.
Pete, you are 2-9, TWO AND NINE! The head coach has tangible evidence that the lineups he’s been using don’t produce wins—even against a team that, on paper, was equally as bad as Las Vegas has been this season—yet he still refuses to make a change. Then again, anyone who has argued with someone in their mid 70s knows how difficult it is to change an old person’s mind, so I guess we should expect this.
This is one of the worst teams in franchise history, and part of the problem is that the head coach is the grandpa at the Thanksgiving table who won’t budge on any argument despite the entire family agreeing that he’s wrong.
This one is taking the low-hanging fruit since Kelly was fired almost immediately after the game. But he has to be included on the losers’ list after another absymal offensive performance from the Silver and Black. Everyone knew that Stone Forsythe versus Myles Garrett was a major mismatch (and that’s putting it lightly), and leaving Forsythe on an island for even one play in pass protection is a fireable offense.
It’s safe to say that any hopes of Kelly being an NFL coach are long gone, and he might even have a hard time getting an offensive coordinator job at the college level after the stench of this terrible performance.
When Carroll approached Davis about firing Kelly, Davis should have handed Carroll two pink slips: one for the offensive cordinator and another for the head coach. Look no further than the Browns final touchdown, which was a 66-yard score off of a screen pass on third and nine, for an example of the players quitting on their coach.
It’s pretty clear that the comPETE mentality is falling on deaf...
