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Getty Images The Raiders were running out of bodies. But they were able to keep Philip Rivers on the run. While they were short on numbers because of injuries, the Raiders were able to keep constant pressure on Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers throughout last night’s win. They sacked Rivers...

Getty Images A late touchdown by Josh Jacobs and a final stand by the Raiders defense secured a 26-24 victory for the home team on Thursday night and that meant it was time to celebrate in the Black Hole. That celebration is one of the last that will take place at the stadium before the...

Getty Images The first round of the 2004 draft brought three great quarterbacks to the NFL, and J.P. Losman. One of those great quarterbacks will be moving after this season. Another one could be, too. With Eli Manning‘s departure from the Giants a foregone conclusion, the Philip Rivers train...

If the NFL coach of the year award went to the best coach in the NFL, Bill Belichick would win it every year. But the prize is determined, as a practical matter, by the extent to which a coach pushes him team over and above its loose, general expectations when the season began. When the season...

Getty Images Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers both started and ended Thursday night’s game with interceptions, and he put the loss to the Raiders on himself. Rivers said after the game that his interceptions on the Chargers’ first two drives, plus the last drive, on which the Chargers got...

After giving the Raiders 10 points on two interceptions, Philip Rivers finally threw a touchdown pass. His 2-yard toss to Hunter Henry has cut Oakland’s lead to 10-7 with 8:24 remaining until halftime. It came on the Chargers’ longest drive of the season. The Chargers drove 77 yards on 16...

The Raiders have two interceptions of Philip Rivers, including a pick-six. They had two other picks wiped out by penalties. Neither team can seem to get out of its own way. The Raiders scored their first offensive touchdown with 20 seconds remaining in the first half to take a 17-14 lead into...

Getty Images The Chargers began the night without right tackle Sam Tevi. They lost left tackle Russell Okung early. Okung injured his groin on Philip Rivers‘ interception on the first drive. Although the Chargers listed him as questionable to return and have not updated since status since...

Getty Images Josh Jacobs sprung free for an 18-yard touchdown run with 1:02 left to play as the Oakland Raiders pulled out a late 26-24 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday night. A missed extra point by Daniel Carlson following the Jacobs touchdown left the Raiders vulnerable to...

Getty Images The final defensive possession of Thursday night’s game appears to have come with some notable injuries for the Oakland Raiders. Head coach Jon Gruden said after the game that he was concerned about the status of cornerback Lamarcus Joyner and safety Karl Joseph. Both players were...

Getty Images The NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy investigation into allegations of sexual assault and rape made against Antonio Brown in a civil lawsuit earlier this year is ready to move on to a meeting with Brown. Josina Anderson of ESPN reported on Thursday that Brown will be meeting with...

Getty Images And there goes any chance receiver Antonio Brown ever had of playing in 2019, or possibly ever again. Mercurial receiver Antonio Brown, with a meeting at 345 Park Avenue only a week away, has gone unhinged again on Twitter, with this message: “Imagine conforming to a system giving...

Getty Images Receiver Antonio Brown is frustrated, and rightfully so. Caught in the gears of a system that has him serving an unpaid suspension while the NFL figures out whether to formally impose upon him an unpaid suspension, Brown feels at a visceral level that he’s being screwed. And, from...

Getty Images The Raiders won’t be getting defensive end Arden Key back this season. Key broke his foot in last Sunday’s win over the Lions and the team placed him on injured reserve Thursday. They promoted linebacker Quentin Poling from the practice squad to take his place on the roster. Key...

Getty Images Lions wide receivers Marvin Jones and Kenny Golladay were having their way with the Raiders’ secondary on Sunday, with both of them topping 100 receiving yards and catching a touchdown pass. So it was surprising, when the Lions’ final pass fell incomplete on their last play of the...

Getty Images The Raiders listed two of their starting offensive linemen as questionable for Thursday night’s game against the Chargers. The team’s final injury report before the game shows that right tackle Trent Brown and center Rodney Hudson both drew that tag. Brown has been limited in...

Getty Images The Chargers hope to have right tackle Sam Tevi in the lineup against the Raiders on Thursday, but a final call on his status will have to wait a little longer. Tevi hurt his knee in last Sunday and played only 14 snaps in the win over Green Bay. He was listed as a non-participant...

Getty Images Raiders rookie wide receiver Hunter Renfrow is far from the most physically imposing athlete in the NFL. In fact, his college coach, Dabo Swinney, said recently that when Renfrow arrived at Clemson he was skinny and weak and “never in a million years would you think he’s a football...

Getty Images The Raiders made a few positive changes to their injury report on Tuesday and two of them involved members of their offensive line. Right tackle Trent Brown and center Rodney Hudson were both listed as limited participants as the team did some work ahead of this Thursday’s game...

Getty Images The NFL has made it very clear that the bar for successful challenges of pass interference calls and non-calls is very high and that’s led some coaches to stop tossing the red flag in hopes of getting things to go their way. Raiders head coach Jon Gruden is not one of those...