Good, Bad, and Ugly from Las Vegas Raiders vs Cincinnati Bengals

2. The Bad: The Las Vegas Raiders' running game

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The biggest problem for the Las Vegas Raiders was their inability to establish the ground game. Joshua Jacobs did move the needle a bit with 13  rushes for 83 yards and 6.4 yards per attempt, but it wasn’t enough to take the pressure off of Carr. Furthermore, the injuries of Kenyan Drake, Alec Ingold, and several other key rushers made it impossible not to have a one-dimensional pass game. The Bengals would take advantage of this all day long.

What was most surprising was that the Raiders didn’t think to bring in Marcus Mariota or even use Hunter Renfrow as an attempt to establish a running game. Just something to take that pressure off of Carr and allow the Raiders to have more of a playbook. Instead, the Bengals just ran the board from the beginning.