Is it right that the Chargers would have played at Cincy and the Raiders at KC in the event of a tie?
If so, the Raiders had every reason in the world to go for the win. I am not a Staley fan because I think most of his decisions "based on analytics" are stupid.
But the Raiders had to be going for it in that situation. And if they weren't going for it, then Bisaccia is an idiot.
What Staley saw before the timeout was that the Raiders were going to run and for some dumb reason he had a light-set out there. Blame it on bad coaching but if he wasn't a complete idiot, he would already know that, one, the Raiders didn't want to play the Chiefs, and that two, they were going to run on 3rd down.
I really believe people are making too much of this, although it is quite possible that Bisaccia is a complete idiot too.