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The Las Vegas Raiders set a franchise report for factors scored when beating the Los Angeles Chargers 63-21.
Rookie quarterback Aidan O’Connell accomplished 20 of 34 passes for 248 yards and 4 touchdowns in a recreation that noticed the Raiders lead 42-0 at half-time.
The Raiders fell 9 factors wanting the NFL’s all-time regular-season report for factors in a single recreation, set by Washington in 1966.
Victory retains the Raiders’ slim AFC wildcard hopes alive.
Vegas had misplaced three in a row coming into the sport, together with a 3-0 defeat in opposition to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, and so they transfer to 6-8 for the season.
O’Connell stated: “I believe it might need been good for us to have a brief week. We could not actually sulk about what occurred on Sunday, we simply needed to come out right here and play and belief ourselves and put a complete staff efficiency collectively.
“It was superior.”
Officers make historical past too
Away from the motion between the 2 groups, historical past was made with the officiating staff as, for the primary time ever, there was an all-black on-field and replay crew overseeing the fixture.
Ronald Torbert, who started as an NFL official in 2010, was the referee.
It was additionally the primary time that three ladies had been on the identical crew – Maia Chaka was the road decide, Artenzia Younger-Seigler the replay official and Desiree Abrams the replay assistant.