{"id":98931,"date":"2026-09-20T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=98931"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:21:08","slug":"chargers-vs-las-vegas-raiders-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=98931","title":{"rendered":"Chargers Turn it Over to Raiders, 26-14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
Omarion Hampton loses the ball, and the Chargers lose the game to the Raiders. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Inglewood) – The Chargers turned the ball over three times, including twice in the fourth quarter in a 26-14 loss to Las Vegas Sunday before 71, 567 fans at SoFi Stadium. Many of the fans were dressed in silver and black. <\/p>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n

The Chargers were down 17-14 in the fourth quarter with less than four minutes left when they turned the ball over on consecutive possessions. The first one, a fumble by Omarion Hampton, led directly to a Las Vegas touchdown which put the game on ice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chargers had a chance to go up first but Cameron Dicker came up short on a 58-yard field attempt on the opening possession. The Raiders took over at their own 48-yard line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Raiders then turned it over when Cam Hart intercepted Kirk Cousins at the Chargers 17-yard line to halt a Las Vegas drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in the quarter Hezekiah Masses picked off Justin Herbert and returned it to the Chargers 23-yard line. The Raiders moved the ball down to the Chargers two-yard line but Ashton Jeanty, out of the Wildcat, was stopped on fourth and goal at the one late in the first quarter and it remained scoreless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early in the second quarter the Raiders drew first blood when Cousins hit Tre Tucker on a 40-yard touchdown pass for a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Cam Hart with a interception for the Chargers. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Chargers marched 69 yards on 10 plays on the next possession. Hampton capped it with a one-yard jaunt to get LA even at seven with 5:26 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Gay answered by booting a 59-yard field goal with four seconds left in the second quarter and the Raiders took a 10-7 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the third quarter the Chargers went 74 yards on seven plays to take the lead. Herbert found Oronde Gadsden in the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown strike with 9:49 left in the third. A 53-yard pass from Herbert to Tre’ Harris down to the Las Vegas five-yard line set up the Chargers score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cody White fought off a Charger defender in the end zone and grabbed a 13-yard pass from Cousins to put the Raiders up 17-14 with 3:53 left in the third quarter. Las Vegas used 11 plays to drive 74 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Offensive Coordinator Mike McDaniel and the Chargers looking for answers to the slow start. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then the Chargers were bit by the turnover bug. Hampton fumbled and Jeremy Chin scooped it up for Las Vegas and returned it to the Chargers 16-yard line with 3:42 left in the fourth quarter. Three plays later Cousins hit a wide-open White in the end zone for an 11-yard scoring strike to give the Raiders a 24-14 advantage with 2:50 left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the very next series Masses came up with his second interception of the game as he picked off Herbert at the LA 48-yard line with 2:18 left. Game, set, match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Chargers next possession they committed a holding penalty in the end zone resulting in a safety for the Raiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Raiders then proceeded to run out the clock for the 26-14 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’ll go back to work. That’s all I know how to do, that’s all we need to know how to do. We need to find a way,” said Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh. “When your back is against the wall you need to fight your way out.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m not deterred. We’re already talking about that. We will be talking about that. I’ll be back to work as soon as I walk off this podium. We didn’t make the jump from Week 1 to Week 2 in some areas,” Harbaugh said about the offense. “Again, we need to find our way out of this.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Chargers Herbert completed 15 of 27 for 192 yards and a touchdown but he was hurt by the two picks. Hampton ran for 94 yards on 23 carries and a score but had the crucial fumble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Raiders Cousins was 19 of 29 for 253 yards and three touchdowns with an interception. Tucker was the main target with five catches for 119 yards and a touchdown. Jeanty carried the rock 21 times for 48 yards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chargers fell to 0-2 with the loss while the Raiders improved to 2-0. Ironically for the Chargers it was their second straight loss by the score of 26-14. They fell to Arizona last week by the same score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LV 0 10 7 9 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LA 0 7 7 0 14 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Inglewood) – The Chargers turned the ball over three times, including twice in the fourth quarter in a 26-14 loss to Las Vegas Sunday before 71, 567 fans at SoFi Stadium. Many of the fans were dressed in silver and black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98931"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98980,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98931\/revisions\/98980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}