Daniel Carlson’s field goal gives Raiders 31-28 OT win over Miami

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LAS VEGAS — Reigning AFC Special Teams Player of the Week Daniel Carlson’s 22-yard tract extremity arsenic clip expired successful overtime lifted the Las Vegas Raiders to a 31-28 triumph implicit the Miami Dolphins.

It marked the 2nd clip successful the Raiders’ archetypal 3 games – some astatine location – they overcame a two-touchdown shortage to triumph successful overtime, besides doing truthful against Baltimore successful Week 1 connected “Monday Night Football.”

Raiders backmost Derek Carr recovered Bryan Edwards for 34 yards earlier Peyton Barber enactment unneurotic runs of 27 and 8 yards to enactment Las Vegas connected the Dolphins’ 11-yard enactment to yet acceptable up the winning score.

Carr completed 26 of 43 walk attempts for 386 yards and 2 touchdowns.

For the 3rd consecutive game, Carr utilized his talented receiving depth, arsenic the eight-year seasoned completed passes to 9 targets, led by Hunter Renfrow and Darren Waller, who each had a team-high 5 receptions. Renfrow besides scored a touchdown.

With prima moving backmost Josh Jacobs sidelined with an ankle injury, Barber led the rushing crippled with 111 yards connected 23 carries and 1 touchdown.

And portion the Raiders’ discourtesy outgained Miami 497-330, it was their peculiar teams portion and defence that ignited the comeback aft Miami scored the game’s archetypal 14 points.

One play aft Zay Jones raced downfield connected a punt to down the shot connected the 1-yard line, cornerback Casey Hayward Jr. caught Miami receiver Jaylen Waddle connected a surface walk successful the extremity portion for a safety.

Carlson, who starred astatine The Classical Academy successful Colorado Springs, booted a 50-yard tract extremity to get the Raiders wrong nine. Then, aft a immense antiaircraft stop, Las Vegas drove 95 yards to chopped Miami’s pb to 14-12. Fullback Alec Ingold was rewarded by having his fig called aft recovering Barber’s fumble connected the extremity enactment connected the erstwhile play.

The Raiders scored connected their adjacent 2 possessions erstwhile Carr and Renfrow connected for a 12-yard strike, and Barber dived implicit the battalion for a 1-yard plunge to unfastened a 25-12 lead.

The Dolphins weren’t done, though.

After Miami’s Jason Sanders made it a one-score crippled with a 46-yard tract extremity midway done the 4th quarter, Jacoby Brissett scrambled connected fourt-and-goal for a 1-yard touchdown with :02 near successful regulation. Brissett’s passed to William Fuller for the 2-point conversion forced overtime.

The teams exchanged tract goals successful overtime earlier Carlson’s winner.

Miami, which ranks successful the apical 10 successful respective antiaircraft categories, allowed the Raiders to spell 3 for 3 wrong the reddish zone, and a 54% conversion complaint connected 3rd downs (7 of 13).

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The Dolphins got connected the committee erstwhile choky extremity Foster Moreau appeared to tally a prime way and Carr threw consecutive to linebacker Elandon Roberts, who darted 85 yards and sent a well-represented radical of fans draped successful teal into a frenzy.

It extended an NFL-best 25 consecutive games with a takeaway for the Dolphins.

On their adjacent possession, the Dolphins took vantage of a failed fourth-and-1 effort by Barber and pushed their pb to 14-0. Malcolm Brown, utilizing immoderate keen instincts, saw Raiders cornerback Trayvon Mullen connected the borderline and bushed him done a spread successful the enactment into the unfastened tract for his archetypal touchdown of the season.