The Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Bryan Edwards (89) keeps the football after scoring a second half touchdown agianst the Philadelphia Eagles on Sun Oct 24, 2021 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas (AP News photo)

Raiders display varied offense to win 33-22 over Eagles.

By Rich Perez

Las Vegas Raiders beat writer

The Las Vegas Raiders (5-2) came out on fire on an office and the fence playing a great all-around game beating the Philadelphia Eagles (2-5) 33 to 22. Raiders quarterback Derek Carr distributed the ball to varied receivers and running backs in a great effort of offense that the Raiders have not seen in a while.

The defense added a superior effort in shutting down Jalen Hurts. Kenyan Drake had a tremendous game running the ball as did Josh Jacobs in key situations. Brian Edwards scored a tough 2 yard touchdown and is beginning to really blossom as wide receiver for the team.

The bye week for the Raiders is well deserved they really played well these first weeks of the season. Unfortunately they had a hiccup with Coach Gruden when they lost to the Chicago Bears on Oct 10th at Allegiant Stadium but they’ve seemed to have overcome it.

Carr had time to throw the ball on Sunday improving his pass to complete ratio going 31-34 for 323 yards for two touchdowns and was intercepted once. Raiders head coach Rich Bisaccia who is now 2-0 “The offensive line today set the tempo for what we’re trying to do. Not only in the run game, but pass protection. They kept him clean with no sacks. They’re a young group that’s on the come up and they’ve been practicing extremely hard. They were exciting to watch..” said Bisaccia.

For the Eagles who lost their fifth game of the season quarterback Jalen Hurts just couldn’t get more than half of his passes completed going 18-34 for 236 yards and two touchdowns. The Eagles scored seven in the first quarter and 15 in the fourth. Eagles defensive tackle Fletcher Cox said they tried to get at Carr today on the defensive end today but just couldn’t stop him, “Getting rid of the ball quick. You go out and use a stopwatch and see how the ball is going quick at the end of the day, he was on fire. We didn’t get to him.” said Cox.

The Raiders head into a bye week next week Oct 31st and will go to New Jersey to face the New York Giants on Sun Nov 7th at the Meadowlands.