Occasionally during the dead points of this offseason, we’ll look back at some of the quirks, highlights, lowlights and follies from recent years. Today, we relive Oakland’s five-snap implosion in the middle of the fourth quarter of a one-score game with the division rival Chiefs in 2013.
Down 14-7, the Raiders have a first down at midfield with 7:25 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Holding penalty on Lamar Mady. He literally trips a dude rushing inside.
OK, so it’s 1st-and-20.
Quarterback Terrelle Pryor takes a 12-yard sack, for some reason.
So that leaves them with a 2nd-and-32.
But Pryor adds five yards to that by taking his third delay-of-game penalty of the day.
Yet on 2nd-and-37, they’re unorganized again as they hurry to get the snap off.
That leads to another sack, this time resulting in an 11-yard loss.
And there you have it, a 3rd-and-48.
Pyror would throw a pass into the back of a lineman and the Raiders would be forced to punt before losing, 24-7.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is why Terrelle Pryor is now a wide receiver as the Raiders try to bust out of a 13-year playoff drought.
