Sloppy Raiders’ mistakes costly in a loss to Patriots
The mistakes the Las Vegas Raiders did so well avoiding in winning the first two weeks piled up in New England.
A fumble in the red zone, two more fumbles on sacks, a couple of key penalties and missed assignments on defense.
It all added up to a 3620 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday that dealt the Raiders their first loss of the season and showed the team still has plenty of work to do to go fromalso-ran to contender in the AFC.
“Everyone took turns today,” quarterback Derek Carr said. “We lost the turnover battle and we lost the situational battle. That’s all it is. It’s one game. If we’re going to blow up everything after the good things that we’ve done after one game, then this game ain’t for some of those people. We are just fine. We’re going to be fine.”
For a while, it looked as if the Raiders (2-1) would be fine against the Patriots. They controlled play early but only led 3- 0 because of a fumble in the red zone by Josh Jacobs.
BEARS30, FALCONS26 » The Falcons suffered their second straight fourth- quarter collapse after leading by two touchdowns, this time to backup quarterback Nick Foles and Chicago Bears, who rallied from a 16-point deficit for a win that could spell the end for Atlanta coach Dan Quinn.
Foles replaced Mitchell Trubisky and threw three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter for the Bears, who improved to 3-0 for the first time since 2013. BILLS 35, RAMS 32 » Josh Allen completed a 3-yard touchdown pass to tight Tyler Kroft with 15 seconds remaining, and Buffalo survived to beat Los Angeles after squandering a 25-point lead.
The Rams (2-1) were poised to match the thirdlargest comeback in NFL regular season history after Jared Goff led them to touchdowns on four straight drives.
BENGALS 23, EAGLES 23 » Joe Burrow tossed a pair of touchdown passes to Tee Higgins in regulation and CarsonWentz dove into the end zone for the tying score in the final minute as Cincinnati and Philadelphia played to a tie.
TITANS31, VIKINGS30 » StephenGostkowski made his career-high sixth field goal of game, a 55-yarder with 1:48 left that lifted undefeated Tennessee pastMinnesota.
STEELERS 28, TEXANS 21 » James Conner ran for 109 yards and the go- ahead touchdown midway in the fourth quarter as Pittsburgh beat Houston.
BROWNS 34, WASHINGTON 20 » Baker Mayfield threw two touchdown passes, Nick Chubb ran for two more and Cleveland beat the Washington Football Team to move over .500 for thefirst time since 2014.
COLTS 36, JETS 6 » Xavier Rhodes and T. J. Carrie each returned an interception for a touchdown, the Colts recorded their second safety in as many weeks and Philip Rivers added his 400th career TD pass as the Colts routedtheNew York Jets.
PANTHERS 21, CHARGERS 16 » Carolina’s defense forced three Los Angeles turnovers, Joey Slye kicked five field goals and the Panthers beat the Chargers, giving coach Matt Rhule his first NFL victory.
BUCCANEERS 28, BRONCOS 10 » TomBrady threw three touchdown passes and Shaq Barrett celebrated his homecoming with a pair of sacks, one for a safety, in Tampa Bay’s victory over winless Denver.
LIONS 26, CARDINALS 23 » Matt Prater made a 39yard field goal as time expired, Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes andDetroit snapped an 11- game losing streak dating to last season by beating Arizona.
SEAHAWKS 38, COWBOYS 31 » D.K. Metcalf made up for a huge first-half blunder by catching a 29-yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson with 1:47 remaining, and Seattle held off Dallas.