Loss after loss, the Raiders’ head coach, Pete Carroll, has tried to keep the temperature steady in Las Vegas. But after a lopsided defeat at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys, the Raiders’ head coach sounded like a coach running low on answers.

Already struggling quarterback Geno Smith was sacked four times tonight, and HC Carroll defended his decision to line up the offensive line the way he did.

“This was the best way we thought to do it,” the head coach said.

Yes, the Raiders were missing two starters up front, with left tackle Kolton Miller and right guard Jackson Powers-Johnson out with ankle injuries. But even with that caveat, what we saw tonight was the same thing we’ve seen for most of the season: an offensive line that simply can’t hold up.

The patchwork group of Stone Forsyth

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