Crosby Wants Raiders to Play for Each Other
The Las Vegas Raiders are in an unfavorable position with only four games remaining in the 2023 regular season.
The Raiders are 5-8 with games against three divisional opponents in the final stretch. With their backs against the wall, they have to win out to make the postseason.
Defensive end Maxx Crosby is not losing faith, however. He believes in himself and his teammates, and that their goals are still in front of them.
Crosby pinpointed something that has plagued the Raiders this season: slow starts. He talked about starting fast on the most recent episode of his podcast, The Rush with Maxx Crosby, and his message to the team over the season's final weeks.
“No matter what’s going on in the game, we have to capitalize on certain opportunities,” Crosby said. “We can’t have a bunch of penalties in the red zone. We can’t turn the ball over when we should have a guaranteed three points. Little things like that are what bite you at the end of games. [Sunday], we had multiple opportunities, and we didn’t capitalize. And so, as a defense, we have to keep improving, we have to find ways to affect the game even more, to get more turnovers, to get more hands on the ball, but we’re getting better. We know that. As a team, we just have to continue to stay together because it’s not perfect.
“We lost our coach, Coach [Josh] McDaniels, earlier in the season, we’ve had change, we have a lot of new faces, Aidan [O’Connell] is the quarterback now, and we’re just all trying to make it work on the fly. The thing I can honestly say is that nobody’s blinked.
"Even though it hasn’t been perfect, we haven’t had the results; everybody is still locked in, everyone wants to succeed, everyone wants to win for our brothers. We’re super tight-knight in that locker room, and that’s been something special this entire year.”
Although the Raiders have not had the season they would have liked, they have not let it discourage them and are ready to play for each other during the last few weeks of the regular season.
The entire podcast episode can be found here.
The Silver and Black will turn around quickly and host their AFC West rivals, the Los Angeles Chargers, on Thursday, December 14, at 8:15 p.m. EST/5:15 p.m. PST.
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