The Raiders and Chargers battled through the most chaotic final minutes of regulation to get to overtime all square, 29–29. The stakes were simple: the winner of this game advanced to the playoffs, while the loser went home. A tie, as unlikely as that outcome seemed prior to kickoff, meant both teams advanced and the Steelers were eliminated. After both sides traded field goals to start overtime, the prospect of a mutually-beneficial tie was inching ever closer to fruition.
The Raiders seemed more than happy to accept this result. Las Vegas converted a 3rd-and-8 to advance the ball to the Chargers’s 39-yard line as the clock stopped for the two-minute warning. Three plays with no clock stoppages would bring the game to an end, and the Raiders ran twice for a net gain of six yards while eating up all of the play clock on each play. Then, with under 40 seconds left, Chargers head coach Brandon Staley called a timeout.
Did the timeout drastically impact the Raiders’s ability to manage the clock? Not really, as the play clock had nearly wound down when Staley called it. But after the game, Raiders quarterback Derek Carr said the move impacted the offense’s strategy.
Chargers HAD to call timeout. Why? If they let the clock run down to 1 the Raiders would have taken a free 57 yard shot to avoid Chiefs Had they stopped next run they would have called TO again Raiders wouldn't risk a long miss with time on clock = punt = tie
Really SI? You too? The timeout changed nothing. The Raiders ran the ball, the play least likely to put them in field goal position. How did timeout change this? Chargers simply didn’t execute on 3rd down
theMMQB 😂😂😂
Brandon Staley called that TO with the hopes you’d forget about him going for it on 4th down at his own 15
Why did he call the timeout?
But then the next sentence he said that they were always all about the win, not the tie.
they were trying to win no matter what. the timeout didn't matter at all. maybe changed them from a pass to a run.
I think you kick the field goal against a division rival. It’s just right.
Of course he’s going to say that though.. it’s a division rival.
Quit pushing this, he literally said right after they were playing to win.
theMMQB This is horseshit. Raiders HC said the opposite
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