For about half a quarter on Sunday, the Raiders looked like they could play with the big boys. The game was scoreless with about 8:00 left in the first quarter. The cable went out in my house at about that time. It came back about 30 minutes later, and f*ck me silly, we’re down 28-0. The Giants toyed with the Raiders the rest of the game, playing a lot of backups on route to a rout of the Raiders.

I’m not sure if there are many teams in football that could play worse than the Raiders on Sunday. ESPN currently has the Raiders ranked #29 in their power rankings, and that’s pretty generous. We’re lucky there are 3 winless teams lower than us. The Titans, with a record of 0-5, are ranked #27 and I don’t think any Raiders have a place to complain about that. The Titans are bad, but they’re not Raiders bad. They’ll find their wins this season, but I think the Raiders were lucky to get there’s week 2 against the Chiefs. It’ll take some luck to get another.

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