We arrived at Sunday’s Raiders-Colts game in search of comedy. Indianapolis hired Jeff Saturday off television Tuesday. At a time in the week when most teams were putting the finishing touches on their game plans, the Colts were being turned down for the play-caller role by their first in-house candidate, because they wouldn’t pay him for the privilege. They decided at the last minute to change quarterbacks and still managed to show up in Las Vegas on Sunday prepared enough to eke out their fourth win of the season.
We didn’t know it at the time, but it turns out all the laughs were about to come at Josh McDaniels’s expense.
First, some disclaimers, a kind of legal attempt at fairness: The Raiders are dealing with some injury issues. Hunter Renfrow is now done for the season. So is Darren Waller. The linebacking corps and the defensive line have seen better days.
