{"id":355413,"date":"2025-09-09T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355413\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:25:10","slug":"game-preview-las-vegas-raiders-vs-los-angeles-chargers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355413\/","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":[2064],"tags":[241,7,268,269,1014,262,63422,2444,2443,39860,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-355413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home-centerpiece","11":"tag-home-latest-stories","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","14":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-at-las-vegas-raiders-2025-reg-2","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleschargers","17":"tag-news-game-preview","18":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355413","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=355413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355413\/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=355413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}