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With matching 2-8 records, the Cleveland Browns and Las Vegas Raiders meet in Week 12. They have pride, development, and draft position all on the line. Sure, neither club is thinking playoffs. This game, though, is loaded with intrigue. Chief among them is the play of rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders. He will make his first […]

The Las Vegas Raiders (2-8) have activated quarterback Aidan O’Connell from injured reserve, giving the team a boost in its struggling offensive unit, the team announced Wednesday. The 27-year-old suffered a fractured right wrist during the preseason finale on August 23 and had been out for more than two months. The activation, the Raiders’ sixth […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are a disaster heading into Week 12. Head coach Pete Carroll is on the hot seat and QB Geno Smith has not worked out for the Raiders. Las Vegas will almost certainly add a new quarterback this offseason, but will he come from free agency or the 2026 NFL Draft? ESPN’s […]

The Las Vegas Raiders unraveled in front of a national audience on Monday Night Football. A 33-16 defeat at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys was confirmation that a once-promising season has fully slipped into chaos. They have been defined by offensive dysfunction, defensive regression, and a coaching staff unable to adapt. After this, the […]

Geno Smith was humorous when it came to criticizing his own struggles in the Las Vegas Raiders’ loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night. The veteran quarterback had a hard time finding holes in the Cowboys’ defense. He completed 27 passes out of 42 attempts for 238 yards and a touchdown and an interception. […]

The Las Vegas Raiders pushed through another difficult stretch on Monday Night Football as a Geno Smith interception added to early offensive struggles. Las Vegas entered the matchup seeking stability, but the Dallas Cowboys defensive play kept disrupting drives. The half also featured an interception that shifted momentum further in the Cowboys way while the […]

The fantasy football quarterback scene has only gotten more complicated ahead of Week 11 of the 2025 NFL season. Although only two teams are on bye — the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints — several managers will be without their go-to options. The Colts being on bye removes Daniel Jones from fantasy football lineups, […]

The Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders head into Week 11 in wildly different positions. Both, though, enter this cross-conference showdown with something to prove. Dallas is fighting to stay in NFC contention. The Cowboys want to regain consistency after an up-and-down first half of the season. Meanwhile, Las Vegas is trying to keep their […]

The Las Vegas Raiders have been pretty bad this season, and they will be underdogs at home against the Cowboys on Monday Night Football. However, QB Geno Smith gave an encouraging injury update after limping through last week’s game against the Broncos. Smith made it through practice on Thursday, according to a post on X […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are in deep trouble this season. After their ugly loss to the Denver Broncos in Week 10, they now sport a 2-7 record and are destined to miss the postseason. To make matters worse, Raiders quarterback Geno Smith suffered an injury during the game, forcing him to miss part of the […]

The Las Vegas Raiders dropped to 2-7 on the season after a dismal performance against the Denver Broncos on Thursday Night Football. Geno Smith got his first taste of the Raiders-Broncos rivalry in Week 10. But Denver harried the veteran quarterback all night. Smith was sacked six times by a historic Broncos pass rush. He […]

The Las Vegas Raiders limped into their Thursday Night Football matchup against the Denver Broncos having lost seven of their last eight games. Fans hoping the team might build on Week 9’s season-high 29-point effort were disappointed by the Raiders’s dreadful performance in prime time. Las Vegas managed to gain just 188 total yards in […]

The Las Vegas Raiders hit a new low on Thursday Night Football, falling 10-7 to the Denver Broncos in one of the ugliest games of the NFL season. It wasn’t just another defeat — it exposed the Raiders’ lack of execution, preparation, and accountability. The defense held up its end, but everything else unraveled. The […]

Ahead of the 2025 season, the Las Vegas Raiders were praised for hiring general manager John Spytek and head coach Pete Carroll. It was believed that the duo would be the ones to lead the Raiders back to glory. However, a 2-7 mark in Carroll’s first season has been disappointing, to put it mildly. After […]

The Denver Broncos hosted the Las Vegas Raiders for an AFC West divisional clash on Thursday Night Football in Week 10. Denver emerged with its seventh straight win, improving to 8-2 on the season. But fans were unimpressed with the Broncos’ 10-7 victory. Both teams struggled mightily in a sloppy prime-time snoozer. The Broncos gained […]

The Las Vegas Raiders pulled out every attempt to stun the NFL world Thursday. They’ve taken the 7-2 Denver Broncos to the limit in a tough defensive battle into the fourth quarter. But now Geno Smith handed Vegas a scare, four days after his infamous fail against the Jaguars. The Raiders quarterback rose as the […]

With the Monday Night installment of NFL Week 9 behind us, Thursday Night Football and Week 10 are just around the corner as fans brace for another wild week of gridiron action and Fantasy Football developments. The new week will kick off as the Las Vegas Raiders (2-6) take on the Denver Broncos (7-2) with both teams coming […]

The Las Vegas Raiders fall to a 2-6 record after suffering a tough 30-29 overtime loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 9. They had a chance to earn the win by going for a two-point conversion that would have been the game-winning play. Instead, quarterback Geno Smith blew it in the end. Smith, who […]

Week 9 of the NFL season is already here and fans are gearing up for another weekly slate of wild finishes and unlikely upsets. As the latest Sunday rolls around the corner, we’ll make some bold predictions for the Week 9 clash as the Jacksonville Jaguars (4-3) take on the Las Vegas Raiders (2-5) on November 2, 2025 at […]

The 2025 Las Vegas Raiders are playing like one of the worst teams in the NFL. They are 2-5 and have struggled to do much of anything well, especially on offense. There is a glimmer of hope for this offense as we prepare for Week 9 because Brock Bowers is back practicing. It remains to […]

Thanks in large part to a London game and a pair of Monday Night Football games, all of which featured entertaining playoff teams, the meat of the Sunday slate in Week 7 of the NFL season was a bit of a snoozer. Bad quarterbacks permeated multiviews all around the country as some teams ascended and […]

The start of the Pete Carroll era has not gone how the Las Vegas Raiders have planned. Even Carroll is a bit stunned. Their 31-0 Week 7 loss against the Kansas City Chiefs dropped the Raiders to 2-5 on the season. The Chiefs are a strong team, but Carroll expected more from his team. Overall, […]

The Las Vegas Raiders’ decision to reunite Pete Carroll and Geno Smith—the dynamic duo that once found success in Seattle—has devolved into one of the most disastrous coaching experiments in recent NFL memory. Just seven games into the 2025 season, the partnership has produced historically bad results, leaving the franchise at 2-5 and mired in […]

The Las Vegas Raiders couldn’t get a winning streak going, getting demolished by the Kansas City Chiefs 31-0 in Week 7. Quarterback Geno Smith is now looking for answers. Of course, Smith’s play didn’t help matters in the loss, as he was eventually benched for backup Kenny Pickett. The quarterback has just one course of […]

The Las Vegas Raiders lost 31-0 to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, falling to 2-5 on the season. Pete Carroll’s first season in Vegas has been a disaster, to say the least. The Raiders replaced Geno Smith with Kenny Pickett late in the game, with the outcome already decided. While the former Pittsburgh Steelers […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are back in the win column. Their next test, though, might be their toughest yet. After snapping a four-game losing streak, the Raiders travel to Arrowhead Stadium for a Week 7 clash with the Kansas City Chiefs. Of course, this is a rivalry steeped in history, emotion, and noise. Facing Patrick […]

The Las Vegas Raiders need to turn their season around. Las Vegas has struggled with QB Geno Smith, riding a four-game losing streak. The Raiders will be looking to snap that losing streak against the Titans on Sunday. But win or lose, they will remain confident in their starting quarterback. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero shot […]

Two struggling franchises collide in Las Vegas this Sunday as the Tennessee Titans visit the Raiders at Allegiant Stadium in what could be a season-defining matchup for both teams. Both clubs enter Week 6 with identical 1-4 records, desperately searching for momentum after disappointing starts to the 2025 campaign. The Titans are coming off their […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are expected to continue with Geno Smith as their starting quarterback despite his rocky start to the 2025 NFL season, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano. In their latest report ahead of Week 6, Fowler noted that while the organization is aware Smith must improve, there is currently no […]

With the Las Vegas Raiders off to a 1-4 start in the 2025 NFL season, questions surrounding veteran quarterback Geno Smith’s future with the team are beginning to surface. According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano, the organization may consider moving on from Smith after just one season under center. In a joint report […]

Week 5 of the NFL season was a wild one, with crazy finishes and blown leads all over the league. Some of them came as a surprise, while others were just rhetorical latest episodes in futility for some of the NFL’s troubled franchises. Who came out on the wrong end of Week 5? Let’s take […]

The Las Vegas Raiders fell to 1-4 after Sunday’s 40-6 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. The team has now lost four-straight games after opening the season with a 20-13 victory over the New England Patriots. Head coach Pete Carroll still believes the Raiders can recover from the rocky start. And he has a source for […]

The Las Vegas Raiders’ 2025 campaign has spiraled into disaster. After a 40–6 humiliation at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts in Week 5, they sit at 1–4, and most of their struggles trace directly to the quarterback position. Geno Smith was supposed to breathe life into the Raiders’ offense, but he’s sucked the wind […]

Pete Carroll is facing reality with the Las Vegas Raiders. Especially after taking the 40-6 beatdown at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts Sunday. His team is in bad shape at 1-4 overall. And Carroll admits having difficulty coming to grips with it — as he said via Ryan McFadden of ESPN after the loss. […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are suffering an embarrassing blowout at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts in Week 5. One of the biggest issues has been quarterback Geno Smith continuing to throw interceptions. Entering the fourth quarter, Smith had thrown two interceptions in the shocking 40-3 beatdown. That put him up to nine on the […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are showing some encouraging trends, under new head coach Pete Carroll. Las Vegas has now scored on the opening drive of each of their first three road games this season. That is the first time that has happened since 2008, per the team. Las Vegas accomplished the feat with a 16-play […]

The Las Vegas Raiders continue to find new ways to frustrate their fanbase. What could have been a much-needed bounce-back win turned into another demoralizing defeat. This time, it came at the hands of the Chicago Bears. Las Vegas had a dominant rushing performance that should have sealed the game. The Raiders, though, gave the […]

The Geno Smith experiment with the Las Vegas Raiders sparked growing critics. Smith has looked nothing like the Pro Bowl quarterback under Pete Carroll. He’s lost the football multiple times during the 1-3 start. Smith is aware of the brutal interceptions he’s thrown. Carroll, however, fired off a “not worried” message Monday with reporters representing the […]

The Las Vegas Raiders hoped rookie running back Ashton Jeanty would be the offensive spark that lifted them in 2025, but the results have been uneven. Former Raiders great Maurice Jones-Drew even argued that Jeanty’s slow start isn’t entirely his fault, pointing instead to the lack of a true No. 1 receiver. With defenses keying […]