LAS VEGAS (AP) — Inexperienced Bay has had additional time to consider its 34-20 loss to Detroit, a Thursday night time recreation that gave the Packers final weekend off.
The Packers, who’re 2-2, definitely do not need to spend additional time stewing over one other defeat ought to they lose tonight at Las Vegas. However that is precisely what’s going to occur if the Raiders correctly defend their house area.
That is the Packers’ solely recreation in a 23-day span.
“I take each recreation personally,” Inexperienced Bay cornerback Rasul Douglas stated. “I do not like shedding at something. If there is a approach I can win, I will win. So I simply hate shedding, after which I hate simply not being myself and what I imply to the protection. I hate being that particular person.”
The sensation is not all that totally different within the opposing locker room.
Las Vegas is off to a 1-3 begin, having misplaced three video games in a row after opening with a 17-16 victory at Denver. If the Raiders win, they’ve a stretch of video games that features New England, Chicago and each New York groups the place they’ve a shot of success.
If the Raiders lose, then reminiscences of final season’s 6-11 report really start to hold over this workforce.
“I do not need to come right here and (expletive) lose, I need to win,” Raiders defensive finish Maxx Crosby stated. “It is so simple as that. There aren’t any excuses. We have to do it. The gamers have gotten to do it, the coaches. Everyone has received to have a look at themselves within the mirror and determine how you can get higher.”
CARLSON VS. CARLSON
Packers rookie kicker Anders Carlson is the youthful brother of Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson, a 2022 All-Professional choice.
Anders stated about 27 relations can be heading to Las Vegas to look at this sibling rivalry. That group consists of the Carlsons’ oldest brother, Nils, who will journey from Sweden.
Which workforce’s colours they’re going to be carrying stays unsure.
“Hopefully, my spouse’s in Packers gear,” Anders stated. “We’ll see about that. She must be. My mother and father positively are going to have to separate colours. I do not know what they will do. They’re going to determine that out. However tremendous excited to see them gameday.”
Anders acknowledged he would not be rooting towards his brother even whereas taking part in on the opposite workforce.
“I hope he makes each kick,” Anders stated. “I simply hope we win by loads of touchdowns.”
RUNNING IN PLACE
Each the Packers and Raiders have struggled to run the ball, although each groups function an completed working again.
Josh Jacobs, the NFL’s dashing chief final season, has run for under 166 yards whereas gaining simply 2.7 yards per carry. The Raiders discovered different methods to make use of him Sunday towards the Chargers. Jacobs caught eight passes for 81 yards to go along with his 58 yards on the bottom.
“I inform the quarterbacks on a regular basis, ‘I am all the time open,'” Jacobs stated. “It helps you get within the rhythm of the sport.”
As a workforce, the Raiders are final within the league in yards dashing per recreation (65.3) and thirty first in yards per carry (3.0).
The Packers have not been significantly better. They’re thirtieth in yards dashing per recreation (74.5) and twenty ninth in yards per carry (3.3). Aaron Jones missed two video games with a hamstring harm and had simply 5 carries when he returned to motion within the Packers loss to Detroit on Sept. 28.
“I am feeling good,” Jones stated. “Simply nonetheless taking it daily. The hamstring, it will probably linger so don’t need any of that. That is why they have been so cautious.”
SLOW-STARTING PACKERS
The Packers have been outscored 44-3 within the first half of their final two video games.
They erased a 17-0 halftime deficit by scoring 18 factors within the last 11 minutes of an 18-17 victory over the New Orleans Saints. They could not come all the way in which again after falling behind 27-3 within the first half-hour of the loss to the Lions.
“I feel we have simply received to get right into a rhythm quicker … simply discovering completions early, get the ball transferring and form of simply getting ourselves out of perhaps the third-and-long conditions we put ourselves in, cleansing up penalties, simply all of the pre-snap issues that’s hurting ourselves,” Packers quarterback Jordan Love stated. “So I feel as soon as we get that, get that rhythm going once more, we’ll be good.”
BOOKEND RAIDERS
Las Vegas has a barely totally different situation.
The Raiders have outscored opponents 53-40 within the first and fourth quarters, however have been outscored 61-9 within the center two durations.
These mid-game struggles compelled the Raiders to play catch-up the previous two video games. They needed to rally towards the Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Chargers, solely to come back one drive away from at the very least tying the sport within the last minutes.
“I do not assume we lack urgency, or it is not like we want a ‘Win one for the Gipper’ speech on the market in the course of the sport” Las Vegas coach Josh McDaniels stated. “I do know that the play may not have essentially mirrored the trouble that we have been making an attempt to play with when it comes to our general manufacturing.
“However I feel you possibly can see within the second half of each of the final two video games. Everyone’s making an attempt to do the whole lot they’ll to battle, and it is not like they are not doing that within the second quarter or the third quarter.”
