Things weren’t looking great for the Raiders early on. They were down 10-0 in the first quarter and showed no signs of life. Things would change considerably after that.
The Raiders gave up a touchdown to the Browns on their opening drive. Then had three penalties, a drop, a two-yard run, and an overthrown deep ball to have them punting from their own five-yard line.
The Browns took advantage fo the great field position and drove for a field goal for the 10-0 lead.
Come the second quarter, the Raiders came to life. First they drove for a touchdown, spurred by Tre Tucker who had two first down catches and the touchdown on a reverse.
The defense got the Raiders the ball back and they got moving again. This time spurred by the longest run of the season, with Alexander Mattison going up the middle for 24 yards. The run set them up for a game-tying field goal and the two teams went to the locker room at 10-10.
The Raiders got the ball to start the third quarter and drove for another field goal to take their first lead at 13-10.
It was Amari Cooper who would help his former team on the ensuing drive. Coop had a ball bounce off his chest and up into the air, where Tre’von Moehrig picked it off and returned it to near midfield.
From there the Raiders drove into the red zone, then handed it off to DJ Turner on the end around out left. Turner got two fantastic blocked from Brock Bowers and Tre Tucker to weave his way to the endzone to put the Raiders up 20-10 heading into the fourth quarter.
Come the final quarter, the Raiders gave one back to the Browns. Zamir White took the hand off and had it punched out, then picked up by safety Rodney McLeod and returned for a touchdown.
The Browns would miss the point after to make it a 20-16 Raiders lead.
A bit later, what looked like a go-ahead touchdown pass to a wide open Amari Cooper was called back by a holding penalty and the Browns would end up punting it away.
Raiders stalled drives kept giving the Browns more chances to take the lead back. Including a three-and-out with under three minutes left.
From there the Browns started driving. A 14-yard connection with Jerry Jeudy put them near midfield. Then a 35-yard Jerome Ford run moved them to the Vegas 16-yard-line with two minutes remaining.
They would drive all the way to the ten, but a bad snap would make it 4th and 3 at the ten. Charles Snowden and K’Lavon Chaisson chased down Deshaun Watson out left and sacked him to end it.