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It’s the boring time between the offseason and training camp, you know what that means. If you guessed; ” A time for inaccurate predictions”, then you were right. It was an offseason if change for the Oakland Raiders. Whether personnel, management, or scheme the Raiders went threw fundamental changes in every part of the Franchise. [...]
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