Losing didn't get any easier for Jon Gruden in his nine seasons aw

ay from coaching.Gruden's much-anticipated return from the broadcast booth to the sideline for Oakland ended in disappointment as the Raiders were outclassed in a 33-13 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night. The performance showed how far the Raiders have to go to get back to the level they were at when Gruden ended his first stint here more than 16 years ago."They feel the same. It stinks Orlando Pace Jersey ," Gruden said Tuesday of losing. "It's not very fun. We have work to do. It's obvious. We have work to do. We're going to build this football team back. It might not happen tonight. We're going to keep laying bricks. We have a great group of guys and we'll be ready for the next battle."Gruden's return to the Raiders got off to a fast start with a 75-yard drive capped by Marshawn Lynch's 10-yard touchdown run on the opening possession.The Raiders were then held to two field goals the rest of the way thanks to three interceptions by Derek Carr, a lack of a consistent run game and the inability to get the ball to receivers Amari Cooper and Jordy Nelson on the outside.The defense wilted in the second half as Todd Gurley took over the game and Jared Goff used play action to find holes to throw downfield. The Raiders struggled to generate any kind of pass rush just over a week after trading star edge rusher Khalil Mack with rookies Arden Key, P.J. Hall and Maurice Hurst failing to make big impacts."They have to keep improving," Gruden said. "They have to keep seeing schemes. Keep their pad level down. Using their hands better. Just improving. We have to get Arden Key some better looks. When they run all those jet sweeps, there's a lot of eye candy out there. It's tough."Carr said after the game that this loss felt different than past ones because of how positive Gruden was after the game to the team.Gruden said it felt just like any other loss and he's trying to avoid that same feeling this week when Oakland travels to Denver (1-0)."Losses all feel painful," he said. "Especially Monday night losses when you have to get up and get ready for a team like Denver. Put a lot into it. We put a lot of time into this. I thought he was on his way in the first half. He was 20 for 24, I read, doing some really good things. ... I don't have any doubts that Derek Carr is going to be great and I can't wait to get started and get ready for the Broncos."There were a few positives to take from the game, including Jared Cook catching nine passes for 180 yards to set a franchise record for a tight end; solid play from the tackles in rookie Kolton Miller's first career game and Donald Penn's first career start at right tackle; and running back Jalen Richard providing a good receiving threat out of the backfield with nine catches for 55 yards.While Cook was Oakland's best player in the opener, two of Carr's three interceptions came on passes to the tight end. The first came in the end zone in the first half when Cook had one-on-one coverage against John Johnson but Carr underthrew the pass.The second came on a miscommunication in the fourth quarter that led to Marcus Peters' 50-yard interception return for a TD."There was some confusion," Gruden said. "Derek thought Jared was going to stay on the move and Jared sat down. That goes on me. That's coaching. We have to do a better job of defining our routes at times."NOTES: The Raiders brought in long snappers for tryouts after losing Andrew DePaola to a significant knee injury in the opener. ... Lynch played only 27 of 74 snaps on offense in part because of an illness and also because Richard provided better matchups as a receiver. ... DTs P.J. Hall and Justin Ellis were limited by ankle injuries. Gruden did not know the severity of either injury. Andrew Whitworth and most of his Los Angeles Rams teammates live within a few miles of their team's training complex in Thousand Oaks. The Borderline Bar and Grill is only five miles south of their weekday headquarters in this placid suburban city.The Rams all reacted with horror and sadness Thursday after a late-night mass shooting occurred about five miles north of their fields and training rooms."It's gut-wrenching, and it's emotional," said Whitworth Deacon Jones Jersey , who lives in Thousand Oaks with his wife and four children. "I was up at 3:30, 4 o'clock reading about it, and ended up waking up my wife and talking about it. It's a hard reality. ... The truth is that tragedy is everywhere, and you can't escape tragedy. All you can prepare is how you'll handle it and how you can approach adversity."Marine combat veteran Ian David Long opened fire Wednesday night at the country music bar a 10-minute drive from the Rams' complex. He killed 12 people before apparently killing himself.The Rams believe no one connected to their organization was at the bar, but coach Sean McVay and defensive coordinator Wade Phillips both described a somber mood in the Rams' locker room before practice. Whitworth addressed the players and began the process of coming up with a way to honor the victims.The team will hold a moment of silence before its home game against Seattle on Sunday, and the Rams may organize additional tributes to the victims, McVay said."It was very heartfelt throughout the entire team," offensive guard Rodger Saffold said. "We work here, and we spend most of our time out here. When we heard about it, it was very shocking. ... It just hurt a lot. There's way too many mass shootings, and this one hit really close to home."Phillips described the shooting as a "horrible tragedy.""It's a sad, sad deal, and we feel for the people it happened to Eric Dickerson Jersey ," Phillips added. "But it doesn't just affect those people. It affects everybody, and our players are genuinely and greatly concerned about it, as we all are."The Rams built their training complex 2 1/2 years ago on a corner of the campus of Cal Lutheran University, which had students at the bar during the shooting. Recent graduate Justin Meek was killed, according to the school.Classes were canceled at CLU on Thursday.Quarterback Jared Goff , punter Johnny Hekker , receiver Cooper Kupp and others tweeted about the tragedy before practice. After McVay and Whitworth spoke to the team, Saffold said the players discussed putting together a relief fund or other mechanisms of help for the victims."It's something that makes you step back and gives you a perspective," McVay said. "I know me personally, I'm very guilty of losing perspective, because you're just in your own little world and it's all football, all the time, and then you have things like this that occur and re-gather your priorities and your perspective on what's really important Marshall Faulk Jersey , and (serve as a reminder to) not to get bent out of shape on some of the things that maybe I tend to do, just being in the role that I'm in."Although the Rams are playing their games downtown in the Coliseum before their new stadium opens in Inglewood in 2020, the team chose the western Los Angeles suburbs for its semi-permanent weekday home when it returned to Southern California from St. Louis in 2016.The Rams' separate corporate offices also are in nearby Agoura Hills, a short drive from Thousand Oaks. Most of the team's employees also live in the suburban Ventura County suburbs one hour northwest of downtown Los Angeles."To wake up to something like that, it was just sad to hear it," cornerback Marcus Peters said. "We talked about it as a team, because it's right down the street from us. Stuff like that can affect us. You never know. The first thing, you've got to make sure your teammates (aren't) hurt, anybody else on staff or part of the organization. When things like that happen, you've got to rely on each other. It's going to make us come together eventually."