Chargers vs. Las Vegas Raiders matchups, get started time and how to observe

Breaking down how the Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders match up heading into their game Sunday at 1:25 p.m. PDT at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. The activity will be demonstrated on CBS.

When Chargers have the ball: In the offseason, while they rebuilt their defense, the Chargers only tinkered with their offense. They brought in new starters at tight end (Gerald Everett), ideal guard (Zion Johnson) and fullback (Zander Horvath), with holdover Trey Pipkins III using about at right tackle. The Chargers also additional depth at running again in Sony Michel following their preliminary 53-guy roster was set. There was no purpose for considerable change just after Justin Herbert led the Chargers to best-5 finishes in details and whole yards. This season, a lot more of the similar is anticipated. “There’s no drama, ideal?” working back again Austin Ekeler mentioned of getting a certainty these kinds of as Herbert operating the offense. “We really don't have the media chatting about, ‘Who’s the quarterback? What are they undertaking? What’s heading on?’ None of that. We’re excellent.” Ekeler is coming off a 20-landing season, and wideouts Keenan Allen and Mike Williams both equally topped 1,100 getting yards. Williams also established an NFL one-season record in 2021 with 5 go-forward touchdowns in the fourth quarter or extra time. “He’s a male the quarterbacks have a great deal of believe in in,” offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi claimed. “He does not have to be open up to be open up.” Of note: In 10 career video games in opposition to the Raiders, Williams has only a person landing.

When Raiders have the ball: Davante Adams has done an awful lot in his job but the 1 factor he hasn’t finished substantially is play from the Chargers. This will be just the 2nd time a Chargers protection has experienced to offer with Adams, Las Vegas’ important offseason acquisition. In early November of 2019, Adams experienced seven receptions for 41 yards with a very long catch of only nine yards as the Chargers conquer Inexperienced Bay 26-11 at the then-StubHub Heart. Even now Chargers coach Brandon Staley termed Adams “one of the elite, distinctive players in the league” right before noting the myriad of methods Adams can conquer a protection. The guy accountable for getting Adams the ball is quarterback Derek Carr, who finished the 2021 normal time with only 15 fewer completions and 210 much less passing yards than Herbert, who gained Pro Bowl honors. But Herbert had 15 extra landing passes than Carr. “People who know what they’re conversing about, they know that Derek is an excellent participant,” Staley claimed. “He’s as very good of a passer as there is, just from his stroke. He has a genuinely pure stroke. He’s pretty, incredibly exact. He has a swift release. He’s as sharp as they arrive at the line of scrimmage.”

When they kick: Dustin Hopkins returns for the Chargers immediately after creating 18 of 20 industry goals and 30 of 32 excess points in 11 game titles last year. But they have a new punter (JK Scott), prolonged snapper (Josh Harris) and return gentleman (DeAndre Carter). The Raiders’ Daniel Carlson manufactured 40 of 43 field goal attempts in 2021 and scored a franchise-report 150 points. He led the NFL with 5 video game-successful kicks in the fourth quarter or later on. His 47-yarder on the remaining engage in of time beyond regulation in 7 days 18 booted the Chargers from playoff contention.

Jeff Miller’s prediction: This could be one of the NFL’s most psychological frequent-year video games looking at how these teams finished 2021 in opposition to one particular one more. There have been substantial roster variations on each sides, but there are nevertheless a good deal of gamers who were on the discipline that last Sunday night time in January just off the Strip.

CHARGERS 36, RAIDERS 31