Things Have Turned Again for Schroeder : Raiders: Quarterback is booed at Coliseum during second loss in a row.

Head bowed, Raider quarterback Jay Schroeder sat in front of his stall in the locker room pondering his awful performance in a 29-16 loss to the Green Bay Packers Sunday at the Coliseum.

Teammate Marcus Allen tried to encourage Schroeder, patting him on the head. After playing as poorly as he did, Schroeder probably appreciated the support from Allen.

Schroeder threw three interceptions, two of which set up Packer field goals, and fumbled once after he was hit from behind by defensive end Shawn Patterson, which set up another field goal, as the Raiders lost at the Coliseum for the first time in 11 games since Art Shell took over as head coach last season.

Schroeder-bashing was in vogue among a crowd of 50,855, which booed Schroeder, who completed just 11 of 23 passes for 139 yards and was sacked five times.

Was Schroeder disturbed by the negative crowd reaction?

“It doesn’t matter to me,” Schroeder said. “I’ve been there before. And I expect them to turn around and cheer when things start going well.

“You don’t play the position I play and not expect to have some pressure. If they said it was easy, then you’d have everyone in the stands coming down and playing this position. I don’t see anybody jumping down from there and doing a better job.”

Nobody did a better job than Schroeder in the first seven weeks of the season, when he was ranked as the AFC’s top-rated passer and the Raiders were 6-1.

After throwing just three interceptions in the first seven weeks, Schroeder has thrown four interceptions in the last two losses, during which he has completed only 21 of 54 passes for 278 yards.

Is Schroeder concerned about his performance in the last two weeks?

“Why the hell am I going to worry?” Schroeder asked. “You guys are going to write whatever the hell you’re going to write anyway. I’m not worried about the way I played. We just didn’t get it done.

“I don’t think there’s any cause for worry. I think everybody has just got to look at it individually and get back to what we were doing at the first half of the season and not expect to go out there and have it just happen. It’s not going to happen. We have to make it happen and it hasn’t happened the last two weeks.”

Leading 13-3 after short scoring drives set up by a 48-yard pass-interference penalty and an 87-yard kickoff return by Jamie Holland, the Raider offense never got into sync, producing just one field goal.

“We’ve got to find a way to play with an early lead,” Schroeder said. “We kept putting our defense back on the field and putting them into tough situations.”

Schroeder was intercepted by Packer cornerback Johnny Holland on the first play of the second half when he threw a pass directly into the Packer pass coverage. That set up Chris Jacke’s 23-yard field goal, which broke a 16-16 tie and gave Green Bay the lead for good.

“I just overthrew the ball,” Schroeder said. “I tried to force something into a hole that wasn’t there. I just didn’t make the proper throws at the proper time and that’s part of my job. I’ve got to accept that responsibility.”

With the Raiders trailing 26-16, Schroeder was sacked on two plays in a row by Packer linebacker Tim Harris. Throwing from his own five-yard line on third down, Schroeder was intercepted by cornerback Jerry Holmes, who returned it 24 yards to the Raider four to set up Jacke’s fifth field goal.

Throwing a desperation pass on the final play of the game, Schroeder was intercepted by safety Mark Murphy.

You might be able to attribute Schroeder’s shoddy performance in last week’s 9-7 loss at Kansas City, in which he completed just 10 of 31 passes for 139 yards with one touchdown and one interception, to the cold, windy conditions in which the game was played.

But why was the Raider offense so ineffective on a warm Los Angeles afternoon?

“We’ve got to take a real long, hard look,” Schroeder said. “Everyone is extremely frustrated. There’s nowhere to point fingers.”

Does Schroeder think the Raiders will overhaul the offense before next Monday night’s game at Miami?

“I don’t foresee any type of changes,” Schroeder said. “We’ve just got to get back to playing basic football and not creating mistakes. We put ourselves in a real bad situation and we just couldn’t find our way out of the hole.

“I don’t think there’s any way to explain it. We didn’t play well. We’ve got to find a way next week to play better football. We can’t expect to win next week playing the way we did today.”

Is Shell concerned about Schroeder?

“I’m concerned about the whole football team, not just Jay,” Shell said. “It just wasn’t Jay. Our whole football team didn’t play well.”

The Raiders refused to single out Schroeder for criticism.

Asked if Schroeder is the problem with the Raider offense, wide receiver Tim Brown said, “If you want to say that, you can say that, but you’re not going to get me to say that. I don’t know what the problem is. You can’t blame anything on one particular person.”

Are the Raiders worried?

“Don’t worry, we’ll be in the right direction,” Allen said. “You guys can ask a ton of questions, but the bottom line is we just didn’t play well.”