Raiders Wrap Chargers in a Bo : Football: Jackson scores twice in 24-9 Raider victory.

“We can’t let them out of this stadium alive.”

--Charger safety Martin Bayless

The door had to be held open for Martin Bayless on Sunday as he made his way from San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium on crutches.

Left behind in the debris of defeat was all the macho talk, all the grand plans for 1990.

The Chargers (2-5) and the Raiders (6-1) are heading in different directions.

The Raiders, the residing king of the hill in the AFC West Division, used a bo -ring attack to roll over the Chargers, 24-9, Sunday in front of 60,569 fans.

Outfielder Bo Jackson, making his 1990 football debut, ran 12 times for 53 yards and scored the Raiders’ first two touchdowns on runs of five and seven yards.

“I can’t tell you much about what happened,” said Bayless, who injured his knee and ankle, “because I was only out there for a couple of plays in the second half. I don’t know what happened.”

What happened was the best team did as it pleased. It exposed its opponent’s limitations, and exploited a defense that was weakened by injuries to starters Billy Ray Smith, Joe Phillips, Vencie Glenn and Bayless.

Quarterback Jay Schroeder steered the Raiders’ ball-control offense without error and completed 11 of 20 passes for 176 yards. He finished the game’s scoring with an eight-yard touchdown pass to Willie Gault.

The Raiders’ defense, meanwhile, was pitching a touchdown shutout against the Chargers. The Chargers advanced to the Raiders’ 20-yard line four times, but had to settle for John Carney field goals of 27, 37 and 31 yards.

Quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver, who was 14 of 28 for 169 yards, remained erratic and attracted a chorus of boos when the Chargers failed to mount a successful comeback.

“I’m as sick as the next guy being 2-5,” Tolliver said. “I don’t know what to say. I guess I’ve got to bide my time. There’s been more heralded guys come along than me that struggled, too, so I guess I’m not the first one.

“But it’s frustrating, because I honestly thought that I’d come in and set the world on fire.”

Tolliver’s inability to find the mark wasted another impressive performance by running backs Marion Butts and Rod Bernstine. Butts ran for 76 yards in 16 carries against the NFL’s sixth-best rushing defense; Bernstine provided 45 yards in eight carries.

“We thought going in we had to run the football, which we did, and when we had a chance to make a play with the pass, we had to make it,” said Ted Tollner, quarterbacks coach. “You’d like to say, ‘OK, Billy’s got 11 games under his belt, let’s start playing like a polished NFL quarterback.’ Well, it isn’t happening.

“How fair that is, I don’t know. But if it doesn’t happen, you don’t win, and I know that. He’ll absorb more of the difficulties we’re having than he probably deserves, but that’s part of the position.”

Tolliver had a chance in the second quarter to stoke the crowd and pad the scoreboard. The Chargers were at the Raiders’ 20 on second and seven and it appeared Anthony Miller had the defense beat across the middle for a touchdown.

However, Tolliver’s pass was late in arriving and a little behind Miller giving cornerback Terry McDaniel time to recover and break it up. On the following play, Miller had hjis defender beat, but Tolliver’s fastball was a step too much for the receiver.

“He had to hit Anthony on those back-to-back plays,” Tollner said. “Those are ones that maybe give us seven points before the half. Those kind of things light you up and you play at a different tempo, but we didn’t make them.

“We ran well enough to win, but the other side of it was you had to make plays with our passing game and we didn’t do that. When you get the chance, you’ve got to come out of there with more than three points because they’ve got too many weapons on the other side.”

The Raiders had a 24-9 lead in the fourth quarter, but Tolliver moved his team to the L.A. two-yard line on fourth and goal. From the sideline came the signal to run a “naked quarterback bootleg.”

“I thought it was a good call,” Tolliver said.

But the Raiders were not to be fooled. They held their ground, and when it became obvious to Tolliver that there was no room to run, he was forced to throw an incomplete pass to Miller.

“That’s my call,” Coach Dan Henning said. “It wasn’t even supposed to be a pass. We tried to run a naked bootleg, but the defensive end ran up the field and Billy took the only shot he had at that point.”

As the day ended, so had it began.

On the first possession of the game, the Chargers rode Butts down the field to the Raiders’ 11-yard line. Butts carried five times for 38 yards, and gained another 14 yards on a pass reception, but on second and six from the 11, he left the field.

Running back Ronnie Harmon ran for a yard, and on third down, tight coverage on Miller forced Tolliver to throw the ball away.

The Chargers took a 3-0 lead on Carney’s 27-yard field goal, and the Raiders replied in the second quarter with Jeff Jaeger’s 24-yard field goal.

After accepting the kickoff, the Chargers were stopped on three downs and John Kidd’s punt went off the side of his foot for only eight yards.

“I’ve never really been one to do that,” Kidd said. “It’s disappointing, I can tell you that. We can’t afford stuff like that.”

As a result of Kidd’s shank, the Raiders took possession at the San Diego 35 and then turned Jackson loose. He carried four times in a row for 23 yards, and then after Steve Smith gained seven yards, Jackson went left for his first touchdown in four meetings with the Chargers.

Carney gave the Chargers three more points with a 37-yard field goal that bounced off the upright of the goal post, but on the Raiders’ opening drive in the second half, they put the game away.

The Chargers appeared to have recovered a fumble after sacking Schroeder on the Raiders’ second offensive play in the third quarter, but the officials had whistled the play dead before the ball had come free. On the following play, Schroeder went 47 yards to Gault, who had beaten cornerback Sam Seale.

It took the Raiders five more plays and a seven-yard run from Jackson to score and build a 17-6 lead.

“We’ve just got to keep plugging,” Henning said. “This is the type of team you have to beat to get ahead in the world.”

After Sunday’s contest, however, it appears the Raiders and Chargers are worlds apart.

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