{"id":355331,"date":"2025-09-09T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355331\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:42:12","slug":"game-preview-las-vegas-raiders-vs-los-angeles-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355331\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Las Vegas Raiders vs. Los Angeles Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both teams are coming off Week 1 win, as the Raiders defeated the Patriots, 20-13, and the Chargers knocked off the Chiefs, 27-21, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night will be a big test for the Silver and Black defense seeing as Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert went 25-of-34 for 318 yards and three touchdowns against Kansas City. The quarterback battle is equally matched on the Raiders&#8217; side considering Geno Smith completed 24-of-34 passes for 362 yards and one touchdown while targeting eight different receivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody said this was a breakout game for him, it wasn&#8217;t at all,&#8221; Pete Carroll said Monday. &#8220;That&#8217;s how Geno plays \u2013 70.0 percent, 300-something, whatever. That&#8217;s how he plays, and he&#8217;ll have bigger games going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both teams are coming off Week 1 win, as the Raiders defeated the Patriots, 20-13, and the Chargers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,268,269,1744,393,2455,2454,63422,39860,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-355331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-home-centerpiece","10":"tag-home-latest-stories","11":"tag-las-vegas","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-at-las-vegas-raiders-2025-reg-2","16":"tag-news-game-preview","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115176757286517536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}