The Oakland Raiders are just a few hours from a game that could break a pattern. In 2009 the pattern was LWLLL, which means loss, win, loss, loss, loss. This year and on Oct. 10, it could be a new pattern of LWLLW.
We expect a win in 2010!
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Make no mistake, the Oakland Raiders have work to do. And guess what? They are going to do it. There is an old saying:
"They said it couldn't be done."
Some of us in the Raider Nation shift the paradigm to say:
"All things are possible, if we only believe."
Look at what has been done in order to establish a framework of what can be done:
Now focus on the win-loss chart for 2009:
Notice that at the beginning of the 2009 season both the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers oscillated between wins and losses. The Chargers stabilized from Week 6 to the end of the season. Oakland, however, had some very pressing man-power issues.
Now when you put this in a fuller context, you see that Oakland has dominated the Chargers in the past. There appear to be about five intervals in which Oakland dominated the Chargers.
Just as Al Davis supposedly studies before making decisions, the Oakland Raiders must also study their opponents.
This article is designed to spur the Oakland Raiders to do so. Each player must say, "I've got work to do."
As a team, the Oakland Raiders must affirm that they have work to do. Then, the integrity of the players requires that they do the work. What they say must be aligned with what they do in 2010 and beyond.
Two key words drive my thinking as a B/R senior writer: intensity and integrity.
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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Oakland Raiders
