The Raiders have some of the worst losses in the NFL this season

So much for those slim playoff chances for the Las Vegas Raiders.

Their playoff hopes were pretty much erased on Thursday night in a crushing 17-16 loss to Baker Mayfield and the Los Angeles Rams, sending them to a 5-8 record and snapping what had been a three-game winning streak.

It also added to the Raiders' growing list of utterly embarrassing losses this season.

What made Thursday's loss so ugly was not just the fact they blew a 16-3 fourth quarter lead.

It was not just that they did so against a team that had lost six games in a row and had nothing to play for.

It was all of that, plus the fact that Rams team was quarterbacked by Baker Mayfield, a player that literally just arrived on the team two days earlier via waivers. There is no way Mayfield and the Rams were operating with a full playbook at their disposal as there is almost no chance Mayfield -- or any quarterback -- would have been able to digest that much information in 48 hours. For three-and-a-half quarters that is how the Rams played, right up until the Raiders self destructed in the final seven minutes by allowing two touchdown drives and committing several egregious penalties. 

You can just add it to the list of "how did they lose that?" games for the Raiders this season.

That list previously included a 25-20 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Jeff Saturday's first game as a coach at any level. It remains Saturday's only win in four weeks, with each following loss becoming increasingly more embarrassing for him. But he beat the Raiders.

The Colts loss came just one week after the Raiders blew a 17-0 lead to a four-win Jacksonville Jaguars team. 

That was a loss that came just one week after they were shutout (24-0) by a four-win New Orleans Saints team. 

As if that was all not bad enough, they lost a Week 2 game to the Arizona Cardinals in which they had a 20-0 lead with six minutes to play in the third quarter. 

If they could have just simply held on to a couple of three score leads, or beaten Jeff Saturday and Baker Mayfield, they would be cruising their way to a second consecutive playoff berth in the AFC.

Instead, it is going to end up being a bitterly disappointing season low-lighted with some of the most embarrassing losses in the league. 

All of it is a terrible look for head coach Josh McDaniels and his staff.