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Darius Philon spent the archetypal 4 years of his vocation with the Chargers aft the enactment drafted him retired of Arkansas successful 2015.
The Raiders antiaircraft tackle played a cardinal relation successful ending his erstwhile team’s play Sunday.
Philon blew up the interior of the Chargers’ violative enactment connected a fourth-and-1 play from their 18-yard enactment midway done the 3rd 4th and made a tackle connected Austin Ekeler to springiness the Raiders the shot successful large tract presumption and acceptable up a tract goal.
Philon besides had made a halt connected Ekeler for nary summation connected the third-down play and wreaked havoc connected the enactment of scrimmage passim the crippled earlier helium was carted disconnected precocious with an injury.
He wasn’t unsocial successful exacting revenge connected his erstwhile team. Philon was 1 of respective erstwhile Chargers to radiance for the Raiders’ defence successful a 35-32 overtime victory astatine Allegiant Stadium that enactment the Raiders successful the playoffs and dashed the Chargers’ hopes.
Denzel Perryman, who spent his archetypal six seasons with the Chargers, made his archetypal Pro Bowl this twelvemonth successful his debut play with the Raiders. He finished with a team-high 9 tackles Sunday.
On Philon’s fourth-down stop, information Roderic Teamer was determination to assistance cleanable up the play and marque definite Ekeler couldn’t escape.
He was different ex-Chargers subordinate who was brought to the Raiders to reunite with erstwhile Chargers antiaircraft coordinator Gus Bradley.
Cornerbacks Brandon Facyson and Casey Hayward made large plays successful sum against their erstwhile squad arsenic the Chargers mounted a rally.
Facyson had 7 tackles, and Hayward had an interception of Justin Herbert aboriginal successful the 4th quarter.
Make them count
Wide receiver Hunter Renfrow was held to a season-low 13 yards, but his interaction was massive.
Two of Renfrow’s 4 catches went for touchdowns arsenic helium had his archetypal multi-TD crippled of the season.
He’s 4th successful the NFL with 9 touchdown catches successful the reddish zone, trailing Cooper Kupp, Davante Adams and Stefon Diggs.
Home cooking
Quarterback Derek Carr credited the fans for creating what helium called the champion ambiance of the season.
“This 1 blew (the Denver game) retired of the water,” Carr said of what helium thought had been the champion location crowd. “It felt similar a playoff game. All the guys that person been determination said the aforesaid thing. It was large to spot not galore airy bluish jerseys successful the stand.”
Carr expressed joyousness astatine the Raiders’ perseverance to conflict done off-field adversity and marque the playoffs.
He suggested Disney marque a movie astir it and volunteered to play interim manager Rich Bisaccia.
“It was a amusive 1 to win, particularly astatine home, and I’m gladsome it’s truthful adjacent to my location due to the fact that I’m going to spell location and sleep,” helium said.
Avoiding history
The Raiders pulled retired a last-second thriller, but a nonaccomplishment would person been historic.
They were 80-0 since 1991 erstwhile starring by 15 oregon much points successful the 4th fourth and had won 23 consecutive games erstwhile starring by astatine slightest 12 successful the last period.
All teams had conscionable 3 wins retired of 1,470 occurrences successful the past 15 seasons erstwhile trailing by astatine slightest 15 points successful the last 15 minutes.
The Raiders besides entered Sunday having won 14 consecutive games erstwhile starring by astatine slightest 10 points astatine immoderate clip successful the crippled and were 18-5 erstwhile starring astatine halftime the past 3 seasons.
The Chargers were the archetypal squad to person astatine slightest six fourth-down attempts successful a crippled since astatine slightest 1991.
Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected Twitter.
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