The Las Vegas Raiders greeted their Southern California fans Sunday with a complete performance and their first division win of the season by taking down the Los Angeles Chargers, 26-14.<\/p>\n
With this win, Klint Kubiak is the first head coach (excluding interims) in franchise history to win both of his first games since Bill Callahan in 2002.<\/p>\n
Both teams’ defenses got off to strong starts, preventing any scoring until early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Rob Leonard sent pressure from all angles with five different players recording a quarterback hit in the first quarter. Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker doinked a 58-yarder on the first possession, which gave the Raiders offense good field position.<\/p>\n
While the Raiders offense got the ball moving down the field, Tre Tucker<\/a> slipped down on an in-route and Cam Hart nabbed an easy interception. Two possessions later, the Raiders got a turnover of their own from Hezekiah Masses<\/a> in his first career start. He snatched away a bobbled pass intended for David Njoku and returned it for 29 yards.<\/p>\n Once again, the Raiders offense couldn’t capitalize on the momentum, halted at the goal line on four straight carries by Ashton Jeanty<\/a>.<\/p>\n But in time, Tucker would redeem himself from his early blunder.<\/p>\n After the Raiders forced a third-and-out on the Chargers offense, Cousins hit No. 1 on two straight passes for 55 yards \u2013 the second being a 40-yard touchdown and the first score of the game.<\/p>\n In response, the Chargers leaned on a ground game propelled by second-year back Omarion Hampton. Six carries and 45 yards were enough for Hampton to get Los Angeles in the end zone and tie the game.<\/p>\n Cousins found Tucker on another deep ball for 42 yards, setting up Matt Gay<\/a> to make a career-long 59-yard field goal to give the Raiders a 10-7 lead going into halftime. To amplify special teams play alongside Gay, All-Pro AJ Cole<\/a> downed four of his six punts inside the 20-yard line in this outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders greeted their Southern California fans Sunday with a complete performance and their first division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4569,4570,48,52,51,185080,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-470439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-home-centerpiece","tag-home-latest-stories","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-las-vegas-raiders-at-los-angeles-chargers-2026-reg-2","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}