“And,” McDaniels said, “that’s what we’re going to do.”īut given the difference in one-score outcomes between this season and last, it’s fair to wonder: Was the run to a playoff berth in 2021 more fool’s gold or because of an actual playoff roster? That while everyone can talk about what the problems might be, it’s his job to make things better. That the team this past week spent much of its practice time trying to pinpoint solutions. “And so, I choose to look at it as if we are close to results that we’re looking for, not super far away from them or not within our reach.”Ī main takeaway of his: That the Raiders need only identify areas in which gaps can be closed, ones that would eventually affect the results in their favor. “The way I look at it is, there are things we can do in each phase of our team that would help us win those games moving forward,” McDaniels said. If Butler had just fallen on the ball … one play. They then scored on the next play to take the lead for good. The Colts were driving down 20-19 late in the game when cornerback Sam Webb forced a fumble of Indianapolis receiver Michael Pittman.īut linebacker Darien Butler couldn’t secure the ball for the Raiders, and the Colts regained possession. The narrative from a team perspective follows a similar theme and never changes - that one or two plays, no matter when they might occur in a game, go a long ways in determining which side might prevail when things get tight.Ī recent example: The Raiders fell to Indianapolis 25-20 Sunday at Allegiant Stadium. The Raiders are now led by Josh McDaniels, whose attack hasn’t produced the sort of results down the stretch of games that would at least even things out in one-score outcomes. I’d say the same thing about one-score games.”Ī new coaching staff. “There is always a luck element to everything. There just hasn’t been a ton of research about why things break one way or the other. I’d say it’s never been totally looked at into exactly why they occur.
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“I think a lot of it boils down to one or two plays breaking from an explosive one on offense or the defense creating a turnover,” said Ben Brown, an analyst for Pro Football Focus. They can’t clinch the close ones to save their lives.Įven though they have possessed the ball with an opportunity to win or tie in all six. Not so much in 2022 - a 2-7 team entering its game at Denver on Sunday is 0-6 in one-score games. They finished 10-7 in the regular season. Or at least having one of the league’s best kickers in Daniel Carlson. The team that qualified for the playoffs in 2021 was 7-2 in one-score games, a major reason being its ability to make the biggest plays at the most critical of times. With the Raiders between this season and last, strikingly so. It tends to differentiate season to season, how your team fares in those games decided by eight points or fewer.
The NFL presents a weekly offering of one-score games. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) is no specific data, no scientific research compiled for why the pendulum swings one way or the other. 9, 2022, at Allegiant Stadium, in Las Vegas. Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson (2) celebrates after kicking the game winning field goal to beat the Los Angeles Chargers in overtime at the end of an NFL football game against on Sunday, Jan.
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