The effort was there.

The results were not.

The Silver and Black dropped their ninth game in a row.

That plus more on Monday's edition of the Locked on Raiders podcast for December 22nd,

2025.

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So we shout him out and we appreciate you as well, Raider Nation. But if you want to hit up RARE on Twitter, you can add Ari producers. You can hit me up as well, as you know, at your boy Q254. And if you want to be a part of the show, we've got the Lockdown Raider podcast voicemail line for you, 707, 654, 4693. a lot to get to on today's show. We'll close out the show hearing from you. Calls, text, a lot of really good feedback based off what we saw on Sunday and also just what the Raiders have done so far this season and what direction they're going. So that'll be segment number three. Segment number two. We'll continue to talk about the game from Sunday and also what to look forward to. And did we see some kind of glimpse of hope of what the Raiders could do potentially moving forward? We'll talk about the bright spots in segment number two. Here in segment number one, news and notes of the day. After a game, I like to do a little bit of game flow and tell you how the game unfolded. We'll do that after I tell you about the title sponsor of the show, and that's

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You want to be right in the middle of all the action all season long. Go to Fandle.com and place your NFL live bets. Again, all season long. So the Raiders come up a little bit short on Sunday, 23, 21. They lose to the Houston Texans, and now they've lost nine straight. they're 2 and 13 on the season.

And there was a lot of people that went into this game.

If you were on Fandle.com looking at it. There are 14, 14 and a half point underdogs in this one, and they only lose by two points. You know, John Hickman was a host of the locked on Texans show. We did the crossover last week, and, you know, he thought that the Texans were going to blow out the Raiders because they were pissed off because of their performance that they had or the defensive performance that they had against the Cardinals and said, okay, well, we'll see, right? I mean, I didn't feel good about the game either. I know how the good the Texans defense is, but, you know, as I told him, don't overlook the Raiders. Don't, you know, the team can't start looking forward to next week's game on Saturday against the Chargers and think that the Raiders are just going to roll over. That's definitely not what they're going to do. And on Friday I talked about don't embarrass yourself. Go out there, compete, go out there, lay it on the line and see what, you know, put your best foot forward. And that's exactly what the silver and black did on Sunday again coming

up just a couple points short gino smith 16 for 23 for 201 yards two touchdowns interception and he was

sack three times and that interception was the killer the interception that he had was a pick six it was a ball

that he should have delivered to ashen genty early jentie was open in the flat and he took too long. It's just like he studied too long.

Study long, study wrong is what we always say.

Right?

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