The Sunday Collapse

The game was off to a good start and the Raiders are a very good team when they have the lead.  With the playoff birth and the division title within reach we came out intense and with motivation to take what was ours.  Sounds like a good movie trailer right?  Well that’s not the way things happened this Sunday, sure we came out with a bang, sure we looked like a competitive team, but in the end we shot ourselves in the foot once again.

            The Raiders had a commanding lead in the second half of the game 24-14 with 11:21 left in the 3^rd quarter.  Well at this point my blind faith led me believe that our defense was stout and all the trash talking the John Henderson we weren’t going to let these guys run the ball and without the run game there is no way they can beat us.  Well once again blind faith of a Raider fan, John Henderson wasn’t visible I had to look at the stat sheet to know he had 2 tackles, I think that might even be a season high for him. 

RUN DMC got it done again but the battle was lost on the other side of the ball when we failed to stop Rashad Jennings on a 74 yard TD run.  At this point you think we are going to get back out there and pound these guys again their defense is tired anyways, WRONG!  Before the new improved Raiders O can get out there and pound the ball our most consistent player over the past few weeks Jacoby Ford fumbles on the kickoff return, which ultimately led to the 38-31 loss by the Raiders.  All of a sudden I felt like we were back in week 3 and Jano just missed a 32 yard field goal to lose to the Cards.  

It’s a work in progress the problem with us Raiders fans is that we are always looking for that commitment to excellence that Mr. Davis has drilled into our heads.  We want the ‘Just Win Baby!!’ back.  Well we aren’t there yet but I’m sure that all of us Raiders fans are proud of the fight this team has this year.  You can actually cheer during an entire game, unlike previous years when we could just cheer for the first 5 min. of the game and then all was lost. 

To end this today I’d just like to say keep faith Raider Nation good days are ahead and before you know it the Raiders will be back on top of the AFC West and then on top of the NFL!!  Tell all the haters the rise of the ‘dark side’ is upon us!!!