Pick Six Podcast: Raiders look like runners, surpassing the Giants as the worst NFL team

The Oakland Raiders were embarrassed Thursday night against the San Francisco 49ers, a team that started the 9th week with only one win and two quarters injured, but who ran against Jon Gruden's rebuilt alignment.

Anyone who has paid attention to the 2018 NFL season should not have been too surprised by the way the Thursday night affair has unfolded.

Except for a last minute victory over the Cleveland Browns, a franchise that has just overthrown its head coach and offensive coordinator despite the "internal discord" proclaimed by the owner, the Raiders have not won any other game since the return of Gruden on the sideline, and they do not really look good trying to win all the others. Thursday was simply a reminder that Oakland Road in Las Vegas will probably be much rockier than expected.

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For Will Brinson and Bryant McFadden of CBS Sports, it was even more than that.

"Is any one as bad as the Raiders?" Brinson asked Friday at the Pick Six Podcast edition, suggesting that the Gruden team was not only difficult, but rather "by far the worst football team".

"I think the Raiders would be 1A, followed by The New York Giants, 1B, "said McFadden. It would be the worst Bowl team. There is nothing really positive about the Raiders on the field. Nothing at all … Last Thursday night, you saw a team about to ask it. After half time, they filed it. The defenders have just left. Offensive linemen have left. And I leave depending on what I saw. If they did not give up, their efforts were mediocre on both sides of the balloon. Bad teams usually go to bed at the end of December. We do not usually see this at the beginning of November. "