The Las Vegas Raiders came out with purpose in the third quarter Monday night against the Los Angeles Chargers.
In front of a pro-Raiders crowd despite being a Chargers home game at SoFi Stadium, the Silver and Black crowd was silenced as LV fell behind 21-0.
Things changed dramatically as Derek Carr completed 9-of-10 passes on back-to-back drives after the break that wound up with Raider touchdowns.
First, Carr found Hunter Renfrow with a 10-yard pass to complete an 11-play, 79-yard drive.
3rd and Renfrow. @renfrowhunter
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The Raiders got the ball back and started to march once again. They went 81 yards in 6 plays. The drive took less than three minutes and Las Vegas found paydirt when Darren Waller went up and came down with a Carr pass for a touchdown late in the third.
CARR TO WALLER.
Here come the @RAIDERS. #RaiderNation
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The last time the Raiders won a game by trailing by 21 or more in the second half was on a Monday Night in 1988 at Denver.
They trailed 24-0 in that game and came back to win 30-27 in overtime.
Back then, they were the Los Angeles Raiders. The way SoFi sounded in the third quarter they might as well have been them again.