Things sometimes change in a short window of time.

Last week, we saw how far the Raiders had come as a football team. This week, we saw how far they have to go.

They were better than New England, but not near up to par with the Chargers, which leaves coach Pete Carroll’s team at 1-1. Deservedly so.

The Raiders lost to a superior Los Angeles team 20-9 Monday night at Allegiant Stadium, lost an AFC West game because of an offense that let its team down in most every way.

Lost because you can’t make the sort of mistakes the Raiders did and expect to find any level of success.

“What that really feels like is a missed opportunity,” Carroll said on his 74th birthday. “In general, we didn’t play well enough on the offensive side. We’ll get better. We have to go back to work.”

They really ne

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