Following Sunday's 27-20 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the general feeling in the Las Vegas Raiders locker room seems to be trending downward. In the team's first season under head coach Josh McDaniels, the Raiders have blown three separate 17-point leads this season, resulting in a loss. This sour feeling weighs heavily upon players, with particularly scathing comments from wide receiver Davante Adams.
“There's no reason why we should be losing games like this, and it's frustrating,” said Adams. “If we played for a s—ty team, then it's one thing. But that's not what it is.”
On Tuesday, McDaniels spoke with the media surrounding the team's recent lack of success, per Anthony Galaviz of The Fresno Bee, saying that there are “areas that I could do better in, and I mean, I've stood up here before and said I never called a perfect game and I probably never will.”
Speaking directly to Adams' comments, McDaniels added, “I know what he meant when he said that, and I don't take any of those things personally,” and that he believes it is “really a two-way street in that regard, where you gotta keep probing as a coaching staff, as a play caller to find opportunities for your best players to get involved in producing the game and then we have those opportunities we're gonna need.”
The Raiders sit at 2-6 in the 2022 NFL season with their playoff hopes on life support. The dreadful nature of this season also brings to question the job security of McDaniels, who is 7-23 as a head coach in his career. The team is now preparing to face off against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday in Week 10. Will Josh McDaniels and Davante Adams get on the same page and turn this season around?
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