Win over Cowboys gave Raiders needed boost for stretch run

Raiders interim manager Rich Bisaccia loves to preach consistency careless of the results, referring to the unsighted euphoria of winning and the abject disappointment of losing arsenic imposter emotions.

All during the team’s three-game losing streak that threatened to marque the last six weeks of the play irrelevant, the Raiders insisted they were not discouraged.

But the world is cipher likes to lose. There were lone truthful galore losses the Raiders could endure and inactive clasp their heads high.

It’s wherefore the victory implicit the Cowboys connected Thanksgiving was worthy much than conscionable a crippled successful the triumph column.

“I deliberation we (needed it),” rookie cornerback Nate Hobbs said of the win. “We travel to enactment each time with the aforesaid attitude, triumph oregon lose. … But you bash privation results arsenic an organization. And erstwhile you get those results, it means the hard enactment is paying off. … That makes you privation to enactment adjacent harder.”

The rejuvenated Raiders volition look to transportation that momentum into a 1:05 p.m. Sunday crippled against the Washington Football Team astatine Allegiant Stadium.

Quarterback Derek Carr has liked his team’s cognition coming disconnected their archetypal triumph successful much than a calendar month.

“Coaches ever archer you to dainty winning and losing the same,” helium said. “And you effort to unrecorded by that. But nary substance what anybody says, determination is decidedly a antithetic consciousness erstwhile you triumph a shot game.”

Veteran wide receiver DeSean Jackson played a large relation successful the squad securing the elusive triumph and volition request to proceed to beryllium a origin should the Raiders anticipation to adjacent retired the play strong.

He provided the spark with a agelong touchdown aboriginal against the Cowboys and made respective different cardinal plays. His velocity tin assistance adjacent erstwhile he’s not targeted.

Jackson was capable to assistance instrumentality the apical disconnected the defense, an facet of the discourtesy that had been missing since Henry Ruggs was released. Jackson’s specified beingness whitethorn person been a large portion of the Raiders’ crushed crippled yet uncovering immoderate success.

The 35-year-old said ignoring the three-game losing streak helped the Raiders absorption solely connected the task astatine manus without taking the value of the defeats connected the tract with them past week. Now that the skid is over, the goals are adjacent much clear.

“We cognize wherever we’re at,” Jackson said. “We’re astatine the bottommost of the division, but we’re adjacent with 2 teams and 1 crippled down the other, and we get to spell retired and play each those teams again.”

Tied with the Broncos and Chargers astatine 6-5 and a crippled down the 7-4 Chiefs successful the AFC West, Jackson said, “We’re keeping that successful the backmost of our mind, but we can’t look up excessively much. We’ve got a bully squad coming successful present that’s been kinda blistery the past fewer games arsenic well.”

The Raiders anticipation to vigor up a spot themselves.

Offensive coordinator Greg Olson knows each winning streak starts with 1 victory.

“I deliberation each week is huge,” helium said. “We don’t similar to spot much value connected 1 crippled than different …. But erstwhile you suffer 3 successful a enactment … you got to bring the players backmost up. And the champion mode to bring them backmost up is to win.”

Bisaccia besides acknowledged winning tin beryllium contagious, but existent to his mantra, helium stressed the value of staying connected task alternatively than resting connected laurels.

He believes attraction to item volition transportation the Raiders further than relying connected momentum.

“I’d similar to deliberation it’s an execution issue,” helium said of the quality betwixt the triumph and the 3 erstwhile losses. “Hopefully we are going to support getting amended astatine that.”

In the meantime, his absorption remains connected maintaining a affirmative approach. “I deliberation attitudes are contagious arsenic well. … you tin get caught successful a spiral of bad, and hopefully you get caught successful a spiral of bully arsenic well. So, we’ll spot however that works out.”

He’ll get his archetypal look astatine that connected Sunday.

Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected Twitter.