OAKLAND — Before every home game, the Raiders play a nostalgic video on the big screen that opens with the declaration, “There are 31 teams in the NFL, and then there are the Oakland Raiders.”

That line rang true Sunday after a 24-13 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at O.co Coliseum before a crowd of 52,101. Thirty-one NFL teams have at least one win. The Raiders, 0-6, do not.

“You can’t keep saying, ‘We’ll get it next week, we’ll get it next week,’ ” interim coach Tony Sparano said. “That’s not one of the things that works in this league. You have to get it when the opportunity is out there, and we’ve gotten opportunities the last two weeks and we didn’t win the game.”

Arizona, 5-1 and in first place in the NFC West, dominated statistically, with former Raider Carson Palmer completing 22 of 31 passes for 253 yards and touchdown passes of 2 yards to Stepfan Taylor and 33 yards to Michael Floyd.

Arizona also rushed for 123 yards, with Andre Ellington gaining 88 yards on 24 carries and Taylor getting 40 on 12 attempts including a 4-yard scoring run.

The Cardinals controlled the ball for 36 minutes, 57 seconds to 23:03 for the Raiders, who continued to fail miserably on third down on both sides of the ball.

Yet the Raiders closed with a surge late in the first half to climb back in to the game. Quarterback Derek Carr, who was 16 of 28 for 173 yards, connected on a 55-yard pass to Brice Butler to set up a 1-yard run by Darren McFadden and put the Raiders on the board with 1:56 left in the half.

On the next possession, with the Raiders collapsing around Palmer, the quarterback threw high for John Carlson, who tipped the ball to Charles Woodson. Woodson returned the interception 30 yards to the Arizona 13.

The Raiders failed to cash in for a touchdown, settling for a 29-yard field goal by Sebastian Janikowski.

Janikowski would later connect from 53 yards to get the Raiders within 14-13 in the third quarter.

But Oakland was unable to sustain an offensive attack or get off the field on defense. Taylor’s run with 2:55 left in the third quarter put the Cardinals up 21-13, and Chandler Catanzaro’s 41-yard field goal with 29 seconds left provided the final margin of victory.

The Raiders were the last winless team in the NFL by the time the Cardinals kicked off in Oakland, as previously 0-5 Jacksonville beat Cleveland 24-6. Instead of joining the Jaguars in the win column, the Raiders were left to contemplate their 12th consecutive defeat dating back to last season.

The Raiders visit the Browns next week, followed by a trip to Seattle to close out the first half of their season. Oakland’s 0-6 start is the worst since 1962, a pre-Al Davis season where they lost their first 13 games and won their finale to finish 1-13.

“If you don’t win, you can’t feel good about yourself,” center Stefen Wisniewski said. “But you’ve got to find a way to keep persevering, and it’s not going to be easy.

“It’d certainly be easy to give up. But I think you find out what kind of men you’ve got, what kind of character you’ve got on your team when you’re down like this. You see who’s going to keep fighting and who’s going to fold their tents.”

Coming after a 31-28 loss to San Diego, it was the second straight representative effort against what appears to be a playoff caliber team — and it wasn’t good enough.

“I felt really good about what we were doing going into the game, and we came up short,” Woodson said. “I don’t know how to take that, feeling that way and not being able to get it done. I’m not sure where to go with it at this point.”

Carr, who looked more like the rookie he is against Arizona than he did the previous week against the Chargers, said: “You’re going to be praised a lot in this game, you’re going to be criticized a lot. You’ve got to ignore both because neither matter. You’ve just got to keep your head down and keep fighting.”

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