The Denver Broncos and Las Vegas Raiders have both hit hard times in recent years with varying outlying seasons including the Broncos' brief January 2025 playoff appearance.
Coach Sean Payton's team lost 31-7 to the Buffalo Bills as quarterback Bo Nix passed for 144 yards and a touchdown while failing to keep pace with Josh Allen and coach Sean McDermott's team.
The Raiders once again missed the playoffs as they went 4-13 on the season, prompting an offseason of change starting with the firing of head coach Antonio Pierce.
On Friday morning, former Broncos two-time Pro Bowler Mark Schlereth laid into the Raiders franchise in response to a fan comment in a post that drew plenty of eyeballs on X.
Greg Rousseau of the Buffalo Bills attempts to tackle Bo Nix of the Denver Broncos.
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"Remember when the Raiders were good?" Schlereth wrote on X. "Yeah me neither... matter of fact nobody does," he concluded.
Schlereth's comments were made in response to a Raiders fan who called him a "meat head."
The Raiders have missed the playoffs in 19 of the last 21 seasons. They haven't won a playoff game since 2002 when they lost 48-21 to Jon Gruden, Derrick Brooks and Brad Johnson's Tampa Bay Buccaneers after making a trip to the Super Bowl under former coach Bill Callahan.
Schlereth said recently that he doesn't like all three teams in the AFC West that aren't named the Denver Broncos, to put it mildly.
