10) In every terrible loss there is the initial rush of "Oh No," when it becomes apparent that life is not going to go well. Today, of course, it was the monstrous touchdown to Zach Miller, but the fact is that the Raiders were winning the battles on the line all along, and when you add in dumb penalties, over a half dozen dropped passes, injuries to insanely important line players (Jason Peters, Broderick Bunkley, Victor Abimiri), and a general lack of focus -- timeouts when you don't have any, terrible missed tackles on move-free players like Miller and Gary Russell, going 2 for 16 on third down... Well, my laundry wouldn't have beaten a good college team today. This game could have been 8 quarters long, and they wouldn't have scored a touchdown. They deserved to lose, and they did. And yet, the Raiders are so bad that if the Eagles had simply hit all of their not very long field goal attempts, they would have been ahead in the fourth. Just unreal.9) Close readers of this blog rem...
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