Luck, Skill, or Is It Our Time: Three Questions for the Oakland Raiders

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Published: November 23, 2009

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... would be playing at home, sure. But against a 7-3 team that had beaten both the Steelers and Ravens, twice?

If you had tried to place a bet on this contest, the bookie might have looked at you like you were crazy. No one bets on the Raiders.

Sure, they beat the Eagles. But that was a fluke with an ineffective quarterback and a good defensive effort.

Come Sunday's start, that was the prevailing opinion around football. The numbers, via Yahoo, had the odds of us winning at 4 percent.

When the Bengals had the ball through the first half of play, it looked as though the Raiders were going to have a long day. Every time the Bengals ran a play, they made first downs and built up a 14-0 lead.

Then, something with the Raiders clicked, as if the entire team said, "Not Today."

After having little success in moving the ball for much of the first half, the Raiders started a drive on their own 29 with less than four minutes remaining. Seventy-one yards...

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