Raiders grasp personnel-listing 63 on banged-up Bolts

LAS VEGAS — Four days after bottoming out with a 3-0 loss to the Minnesota Vikings within the lowest-scoring indoor game in NFL ancient past, the Las Vegas Raiders balled out against the Los Angeles Chargersbeating their AFC West rival 63-21 on Thursday night while surroundings a franchise listing for aspects scored in a game.

The 63 aspects were the third most by a personnel within the Tubby Bowl technology and the second most in NFL ancient past by a personnel that was shut out in its outdated game, one within the aid of the 64 aspects the 1934 Philadelphia Eagles scored against the Cincinnati Reds.

The Raiders furthermore scored essentially the most aspects in a high-time game for the explanation that 1970 AFL-NFL merger.

From zero to 63?

“I was into it,” Raiders intervening time coach Antonio Pierce stated of the blue mood that enveloped the personnel after Sunday’s loss. “I needed to slap myself to safe out the funk, and [the players] got me out of the funk. They brought me along, and hell, we kicked some ass today.

“It changed into a frenzy.”

It was a entire demolition as the Raiders ended a three-game shedding toddle to red meat as much as 6-8 while scoring seven touchdowns on offense and two on protection. They had five takeaways, scoring a touchdown after each. The Raiders’ 35 aspects off takeaways are tied for essentially the most this century, equaling the 2013 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at the Raiders and the 2012 Contemporary England Patriots at the Contemporary York Jets within the imperfect “Butt Fumble” game.

The Raiders led 42-0 at halftime.

When huge receiver Jacob Meyers hit Davante Adams for a 3-yard touchdown toddle to position the Raiders up 49-0 within the third quarter, Meyers changed into the first non-quarterback this century to throw a toddle along with his personnel up by as a minimal 40 aspects. Meyers furthermore changed into the second Raiders player in franchise ancient past with a passing touchdown and receiving touchdown within the identical game, joining Hall of Reputation working reduction Marcus Allen in 1983 against the Seattle Seahawks.

The Raiders’ two defensive touchdowns — a 44-yard fumble return by defensive handle John Jenkins and an acrobatic 16-yard pick-six by Jack Jones — were their first pair in a game since 2006, when Nnamdi Asomugha and Chris Carr returned interceptions for scores against the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ Ben Roethlisberger.

With Raiders intervening time offensive coordinator Bo Hardegree transferring as much as the press field from the discipline, rookie quarterback Aidan O’Connell threw deep and excelled.

“Obviously, after final week’s performance, we needed to safe a commerce,” Pierce stated of transferring Hardegree to a increased vantage point. “And I mediate it worked out properly for us.”

O’Connell, who entered the day 5-for-20 with one touchdown and two interceptions on passes of 20-plus air yards, went 3-of-4 with three touchdowns on such passes within the first half of. He is the first Raiders quarterback to throw three touchdowns of as a minimal 20 air yards in a game since ESPN began monitoring air yards in 2006.

He completed 20-of-34 for 248 yards and a profession-high four touchdowns. He stated the speedy week helped the Raiders safe over the shutout loss to the Vikings due to they may maybe well maybe maybe just not dwell on it.

“It was fun to quiz and fun to be a segment of,” stated O’Connell, who posted a profession-most productive 120.7 passer rating after he had a 66.0 passer rating against the Vikings. “Every now and then, the stars upright align.”

Las Vegas, which had scored 20 aspects or fewer in 11 of 13 games, had eight players rating touchdowns. Along side the playoffs, that’s tied for the second most in a game in NFL ancient past and is the fifth time that has came about overall.

The Raiders were with out All-Pro working reduction Josh Jacobs (quad), left handle Kolton Miller (upright shoulder) and heart Andre James (upright ankle) and bear a prolonged spoil sooner than dealing with the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on Christmas Day.

The Chargers were with out their two most productive offensive players, with giant establish quarterback Justin Herbert out for the season following surgical treatment to repair a fractured upright index finger earlier this week and main huge receiver Keenan Allen out with a heel ache.

In Herbert’s device, Easton Stick was 23-of-32 for 257 yards with three touchdowns, however he furthermore threw an interception and lost two fumbles.

Raiders upright handle Jermaine Eluemunor stated there was “a quantity of pent-up aggression” after being shut out on Sunday.

“Final week sucked, shedding 3-0,” stated Eluemunor, who shut out Chargers edge rusher Khalil Mack after he got six of his league-main 15 sacks against the Raiders in Week 4. “That is f—ing embarrassing. … And all people upright desired to reach reduction out right here today and upright … let all of it out. Particularly on a transient week esteem this.”

Adams agreed.

“Obviously, we soundless got issues to play for, however you’ve got to bear that pride of your final establish and the personnel you play for, and we all had that on our thoughts today,” he stated after catching a game-high eight passes for 101 yards and the touchdown. “We rallied and figured out a technique to produce it the upright draw. Started out mammoth, protection got on the discipline and got them upright off, and I mediate we’ve got upright been form of snowballing off what they’ve been doing all 365 days and we’ve got got got to get a technique to be a little bit extra constant on offense.”

With the Miami Dolphins beating the Denver Broncos 70-20 in Week 3, that is the first season one day of which a pair of teams bear scored as a minimal 60 aspects since 1972.

“We was on the opposite facet of [a shutout] final week, and it felt a undeniable draw,” Pierce stated. “No apologies right here. Sorry.”