Remaining Schedule Looks Bleak for Raiders Hopes

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The next three weeks for the Oakland Raiders looks pretty bleak, especially when players are looking to improve from their 44-7 loss to the New York Giants. What is interesting about the remaining schedule is that the team has to look forward to playing the whole NFC East, which happened to be called "the most physical division in the NFL" last season. The only chance the Raiders could win again would be against the Kansas City Chiefs in week 10. To only make matters worse, the Broncos are 5-0 coming off a huge win against superstar Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. With Kyle Orton unexpectedly having a pro bowl year, Raiders really have no other teams that they have a chance of beating. After the first week of the season, the Raiders seemed to play like a whole different team with the physical game against the San Diego Chargers, however it has gone downhill from there.
As a Raiders fan, it is hard to hear about their woes each day, especially with how bad Jamarcus Russell is playing and the whole fiasco regarding head coach Tom Cable and the alleged assault on a fellow assistant coach.
Colin Cowherd, co-host of Sportsnation on ESPN, said it best. "In the NFL, there are three important positions that make a football team what it is: The owner, head coach, and the quarterback. The raiders have Al Davis, Tom Cable, and Jamarcus Russell, respectively the three worst in their positions."
It hurt my feelings to have to hear something like that, but Cowherd could not have been more right.