Las Vegas Raiders vs. Seattle Seahawks

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Mid-November is when a season stops being theoretical. By now you know what this team actually is rather than what the summer promised, and the people still buying tickets in week ten are a different population from the ones who bought in September: less curious, more committed, considerably more willing to tell you exactly what is wrong with the offensive line. Seattle brings its own version of that, a fanbase that spent a decade being the loudest in the sport and has never entirely stopped behaving like it, which inside a building as porous as Allegiant Stadium means another afternoon where the away section is a real problem rather than a courtesy. No primetime cameras are coming for this one and no national storyline is attached to it, just a conference game in the desert in front of people who genuinely care how it goes. A 1:05 start on November 15, the cheapest afternoon on the whole home slate, and more often than not the one you end up talking about afterwards.