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Raiders 2023 season awards: Rookie of the Year, MVP, Breakout Player, more

It’s the week for All Pro teams. But while those teams compare players across the league to each other, around these parts we tend to focus on just the Raiders. Which brings us to our 2023 Raiders season awards.

It’s the week for All Pro teams. But while those teams compare players across the league to each other, around these parts we tend to focus on just the Raiders. Which brings us to our 2023 Raiders season awards.

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Week 18 win over Broncos

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Week 18 win over Broncos

For the fourth straight season, the Raiders complete the sweep of the Broncos. That’s right, the Las Vegas Raiders have never lost to the Broncos.

Raiders players, fans make their case for Antonio Pierce to keep job after strong finish to season

Raiders players, fans make their case for Antonio Pierce to keep job after strong finish to season

Antonio Pierce made it clear he had no intention of his team giving anything less than everything they had in the season finale. Even with nothing to play for but pride.

They never trailed in the game. They scored first and never looked back.

As the clock ticked away on their 27-14 win over the Broncos, the scene was electric at Allegiant Stadium. The crowd began to chant “AP! AP! AP!” and Pierce gave them love right back on his way off the field.

“I wanted to show them how much I appreciated them. Love ’em up because I may not be here next year.”

Several Raiders veterans said it was like nothing they’ve ever seen before.

“You hear the fans, you hear the crowd and the way they respond to it and it’s clear that he’s changed the culture. Definitely deserves it,” said Davante Adams .

“That’s the first time I’ve seen that. I’ve heard them boo coaches before, but I’ve never heard it like that before.”

Pierce was a shot of adrenaline for a Raiders squad that was lost under previous head coach Josh McDaniels. He was given the last nine games to show what he could do. The fans have seen enough; they want him to keep the job. The players have experienced it firsthand and they all feel the same.

“He changed our team,” said Josh Jacobs. “I know at the end he may not always look like it on the stat sheet, but in the locker room, the mentality, the feel, the love, the joy, he changed all that.”

“He embodies what it means to be a Raider,” Davante Adams added. “He’s got that same swagger, that aura. The way he talks, the way he’s done it, all of the things that represent being a Raider, he’s the guy.”

Adams added that this is the best morale of any team he’s been on, which is saying a lot considering they finished with an 8-9 record and out of the playoffs.

“It’s AP. Him being himself,” said Jack Jones. “He has that ‘it’ factor to bring that out of players, so I just give all the credit to him.”

Jones was picked up midseason and has played under Pierce at every level from high school to college to now in the pros.

But Maxx Crosby has played well no matter who is the head coach. And no one has been more outspoken about wanting Pierce to have the interim label come off than him. Because under Pierce was the first time he saw a coach who can come close to his passion and brought up the rest of the team with him.

“We’ve just built something beautiful in a short period of time and for us we want to keep riding that momentum not start from ground zero again,” said Crosby. “We’ve been doing that s–t for five years and it’s been the same result, so they need to make the right decision and do what we need to do.”

No one really knows at this point if Pierce will be the guy going forward. Especially with the rumors that Mark Davis is making a play to lure Jim Harbaugh away from Michigan and to Las Vegas.

Will this game change anything? Will the chants from the fans? The words of the players? Only Davis knows that now.

Watch: Huge plays by Tre Tucker, Davante Adams give Raiders 17-7 half time lead over Broncos

Watch: Huge plays by Tre Tucker, Davante Adams give Raiders 17-7 half time lead over Broncos

Not every day you get the ball twice in under four minutes, without a turnover, and convert the second one into a touchdown. But that’s what the Raiders did against the Broncos.

The second of the two possessions started with 1:43 left in the second quarter. The second play, Zamir White found a hole up the middle and went for 25 yards. But the Raiders gave it right back when Nik Bonito got the edge around Jermaine Eluemunor to sack Aidan O’Connell for an eight-yard loss.

O’Connell didnt let the sack get him down. He completed consecutive passes to Davante Adams and Austin Hooper and picked up the first down anyway.

Two plays later, Tre Tucker roasted Broncos DB Fabian Moreau and O’Connell aired it out deep for him.

The play went for 47 yards and the Raiders were in business at the Denver 15 with 38 seconds left in the half.

The next play, Davante Adams had a pass go right through his hands that would probably have been a touchdown.

A couple plays later, the Hooper would make the catch to put the Raiders in first and goal. And Adams redeemed himself.

With 11 seconds left, the Broncos knew the Raiders would be trying to throw for the touchdown, so they brought the house. O’Connell backpeddled to buy time and then threw it up for Adams to make the play. And make the play he did.

The touchdown catch put the Raiders up 17-7 at the half over the rival Broncos. And shows the Raiders came to play.

They get the ball to start the second half.

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Week 17 loss to Colts

Raiders went out swinging, but went out just the same.

After a big win at Arrowhead over the defending champion Chiefs in Week 16, a trip to Indianapolis to face Gardner Minshew and the Colts seemed like a very winnable game for the Raiders.

It isn’t really that simple, though. The Raiders beat the Chiefs thanks to a couple of defensive TD’s. They can’t rely on that every week.

By half time, the Colts had scored off two big catches and the Raiders offense managed just a field goal. The Colts didn’t need to score a touchdown in the second half and still pulled out the win.[anyclip-media thumbnail=”undefined” playlistId=”undefined” content=”dW5kZWZpbmVk”][/anyclip-media]

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Week 16 win over Chiefs

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Week 16 win over Chiefs

A month ago the Chiefs boat raced the Raiders in Las Vegas to go 8-3 on the season take a commanding lead in the AFC Playoff race. At that time, it seemed you could chalk up another win for the Chiefs when the Raiders came to Arrowhead on Christmas Day.

Since then things have taken a turn for both teams. The Chiefs have been very beatable and the Raiders defense has been extremely stingy and opportunistic.

These teams collided on that same trajectory and the result was a stunner with the Raiders defense almost singlehandedly taking down Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs 20-14.

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Week 15 rout of Chargers

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Week 14 route of Chargers

What an insane game this was. Four days earlier, the Raiders were shut out 3-0 by the Vikings. Then they come out in this one and not only score a touchdown on their opening drive, not only score 21 points in the first quarter, not only go up 42-0 in the first half, not only scored 49 points before the Chargers scored for the first time, but scored a franchise record 63 points in a 63-21 trouncing of the Chargers.

That was one heck of a run-on sentence.

So, you might just see a heavy dose of Ballers this week. I wasn’t even sure there’d be a Buster, but in the end I found one. But just one.

4 takeaways from Chargers’ 63-21 loss to Raiders

Recapping one of the Chargers’ worst losses in franchise history.

Do you really need four of these? Like, really? They let the Raiders score 63 points. Come on.

Social media reacts to Chargers’ 63-21 loss to Raiders

Here is how social media reacted to the Chargers’ embarrassing loss to the Raiders.

The Chargers lost big in Vegas Thursday night.

The Raiders scored 63 points and more than half of those points were in the first half. Although the final score of the matchup was 63-21, it was a clear sign that change is needed within the franchise.

Here’s how social media reacted to the Bolts’ embarrassing loss:

 

 

 

 

 

Everything to know about Chargers’ embarrassing loss to Raiders

The Chargers were embarrassed in prime time.

The Chargers got embarrassed by the Raiders on Thursday night while the entire nation watched.

To recap Los Angeles’ 63-21 loss to Las Vegas, here is everything to know.