Pete Carroll has repeatedly defended the Raiders’ slide to the bottom of the NFL by saying that in most of their losses, the team has been, “a play here or there,” from a different outcome.

Make that about 60 or 70 plays away, at minimum, if the veteran coach wanted to accurately describe his team’s performance against the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football to cap NFL Week 11.

Dallas destroyed Las Vegas 33-16 at Allegiant Stadium, ceasing any hopeful feelings that had come out of the Raiders hanging around in narrow losses to the Jaguars and Broncos the last two weeks.

“This was a rough night, man,” Carroll opened his postgame news conference. “We didn’t get stuff done the way we wanted to on either side of the ball.”

The game featured 118 plays from scrimmage, and the Cowboys wer

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