Oakland Raiders’ Late-Season Success Yields More Questions Than Answers

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Published: December 23, 2009

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... Take a 2-7 Raiders team, end with three or four wins and the real work could begin. 

A housecleaning that would see the team shopping for a coach, a quarterback, and possibly looking for another guy to earn the featured back role. 

Essentially, it would be a full purge and reset of an underachieving squad that has disappointed for seven years straight.

Instead, the team showed signs of life under Bruce Gradkowski.  The hard-working quarterback sparked wins over the Bengals and Steelers over a three-game span to bring the Raiders to life.

After he got hurt against Washington, two things became clear- the team’s second half winning ways were likely over, and JaMarcus Russell was irredeemable at quarterback.

Then the team went into Denver starting third stringer Charlie Frye at quarterback while Russell was sidelined by incompetence.

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