OAKLAND – Long after the game ended, Raiders rookie cornerback D.J. Hayden sat in front of his locker, half dressed, with a white towel draped over his bowed head.

A short time later, Hayden declined an interview request and exited the locker room, leaving others to explain just how the Philadelphia Eagles carved up the Raiders for 419 yards passing and seven touchdowns in a 49-20 victory.

“He had a tough day,” veteran safety Charles Woodson said of Hayden, “but everybody’s gone through it. If you’ve played in the NFL, you’ve had a long day before. But if you want to play a long time, then you’ve got to get past it.”

Sunday turned into a long day for Hayden and the Raiders from the outset, with the Eagles scoring on their first four possessions. The second and third of those touchdowns were scored by receivers covered by Hayden.

Eagles quarterback Nick Foles etched his name into the NFL record book with the seven touchdown passes. He became only the second player to accomplish the feat since 1969. The Broncos’ Peyton Manning pulled it off against the Baltimore Ravens in the season-opener this season.

This wasn’t the first time Foles passed for seven touchdowns in a game. The other?

“In a video game,” Foles said.

Time and again, Foles completed passes to receivers covered by Hayden, including one to DeSean Jackson for 59 yards that set up the Eagles final touchdown.

Raiders coach Dennis Allen echoed Woodson’s sentiment about Hayden having a difficult time. In fairness, Allen added, there’s plenty of blame to go around in a game when the defense gives up 542 yards.

“D.J. wasn’t the only one that had a tough day,” Allen said. “Obviously, when you play out there on the island and you have a tough day, those things stand out a little bit more.”

Woodson knows firsthand the pressures of succeeding right away at cornerback as a rookie in the NFL, especially one selected in the top half of the first round.

He was picked No. 4 by the Raiders in the 1998 NFL draft and struggled a great deal in his first game, as well as at times his first season.

“D.J. is the 12thpick in the draft,” Woodson said of the Raiders first selection in April. “Nobody’s going to feel sorry for him. And one thing about it is, he was in position. He was in position to make plays. Those are plays he’s going to have to make going forward.”

Indeed, Hayden differs from some others that got victimized by Foles and the Eagles today in that he at least came close to making plays. There were a few plays in which the Raiders failed to cover receivers.

Hayden was stride for stride with Riley Cooper on a deep throw in the second quarter before he tripped as the ball arrived at Cooper’s hands as part of a 63-yard touchdown.

Hayden let Jackson get past him by a couple of yards on the 59-yard completion before he closed ground and just missed getting his hand on the well-thrown pass.

Veteran cornerback Tracy Porter said the Eagles outplayed the Raiders in every facet of the game. He called the defensive showing “flat-out embarrassing.”

Just the same, he said, this was the kind of game that the Raiders can use as a wake-up call and use as a means of improving.

“From the top guy on the team to the last guy on the roster,” Porter said, “we didn’t do our job in preparing for this team as well as we could this week, and it showed.”