Posted by NFL Editor and ANG football writer Jerry McDonald
The quick declaration of a sellout for Sunday’s Cowboys-Raiders game came as at least a mild surprise, but considering what went on in Week 1 and Week 3 at California venues, maybe it shouldn’t have been.

Dallas had a vociferous presence in the stands at both Qualcomm Stadium and Monster Park, and their come-from-behind wins at both places were accompanied by the roar of the road crowd.

That sets up an interesting scenario Sunday at McAfee Coliseum. In a game the Raiders desperately need to win, they may be faced with the largest presence of fans cheering for the visiting team since they returned to Oakland in 1995.

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Posted by Bill Soliday, Raiders beat writer for ANG Newspapers
Bill Walsh once said of Steve DeBerg that he was just good enough to get you beat. He’d probably say the same thing about the Oakland Raiders’ defense. And maybe about its offense.

The Raiders may be better, but the task ahead of them now is this: they still have yet to learn how to win.

Feel free to disagree. But against Philadelphia on Sunday, the Raiders simply looked like a team that knew that somehow, some way, when it was all said and done, the hammer would fall and they would lose in the end.

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