Coming into the year—following 3 consecutive below .500 seasons—suddenly, the Las Vegas Raiders would flip a switch and compete for championships. An elderly Pete Carroll—fresh off his couch. Geno Smith—who, at his peak, was like, the 14th best QB in the league—the Raiders were ready to turn Las Vegas up.
(Also, thanks to the lazy NFL media people who thought they would magically transform thanks to the 5% ownership of Tom Brady, ya know, because he’s such a winner, obviously, that winning would trickle down into the locker room. Trickle down never fails.)
The Las Vegas Raiders barely looked like a functional NFL enterprise in their boring ass 10-7 loss to the Denver Broncos on Amazon Prime(time).
The first quarter belonged to the Raiders.
Ashton Jeanty ran it up the middle for a 4-yard touchdown.
Here’s a look at all of Las Vegas’s offensive drives following the Jeanty score:
- punt
- punt
- turnover on downs
- punt
- punt
- interception
- (blocked) punt
- punt
- punt
- missed field goal
Fucking disgusting football.
Geno Smith had no answers for the Broncos defense.
Denver recorded 6 sacks, 11 QB hits, 22 pressures and 1 interception.
Dondrea Tillman with a interception. pic.twitter.com/4LA8LKy0vi
— Ethan Gaile (@gaile_ethan) November 7, 2025
That interception wasn’t Geno’s fault but when you lead the NFL with interceptions, you don’t get the benefit of nuance.
Geno was 16-for-26 with 143 yards and a 13.0 QBR.
He has objectively been one of the worst QBs in the league.
Geno Smith makes Bo Nix look like 2013 Peyton Manning.
Every 3rd and long ends with pass rushers helping each other get off of Geno’s sternum.
At age 35, and the Raiders inevitably at the top of next year’s draft—we may be witnessing the end of a weird ass career.
A career where he was so disliked in New York, his teammates were punching his jaw to the floor.
Then he was once again hated by the rest of New York after ending Eli Manning’s consecutive start streak—going out there playing even worse than Eli was.
Seattle, he was fine—capable of keeping the Seahawks hanging around the party just long enough to get blown out in the Wild Card round by far superior QBs.
Now he dies in Las Vegas like an old showgirl forced into an early retirement with nothing to show for it but a VD and an opioid addiction.
A team with Ashton Jeanty at running back and Brock Bowers at tight end should score more than 7 points but Denver’s defense exposed everything wrong with Vegas’s nonexistent offensive line and Chip Kelly—the offensive coordinator whose offense was cutting edge over a decade ago and now, bottom of the barrel, muddy horseshit.
The Las Vegas Raiders fall to 2-7 while the Denver Broncos are 8-2—the best record in the NFL.
Ah, to be so lucky to have the 2025 Las Vegas Raiders on your team’s schedule—twice.
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