Sometime after they trotted into the locker room with a halftime lead Sunday, the Patriots decided to ditch their run game.

They had averaged 3.3 yards per carry against the Raiders, who stuffed two third-and-1 runs inside the final five minutes of the half. It was time, they figured, to put the game in Drake Maye’s hands.

Bombs away.

The Raiders were already there. They had logged a 74% pass rate in the first half, when they fizzled fast under the Foxboro rain. After Geno Smith hit a touchdown pass on his opening drive, he took three sacks, threw a pick and went scoreless through the rest of the half.

But later, Las Vegas enjoyed the sweet luxury of running the ball with a lead, and spent most of the fourth quarter killing clock. What happened between the Raiders getting clobbered and

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