Raiders Playing For Future
The Raiders are 3-8, and I don’t expect to see an 8-8 finish to the season. So what are the Raiders playing for? Well, Tom Cable is trying to get another season to show what he can do with a football team, any coach of Al Davis is on the hot seat. Bruce Gradkowski has no job security. He is playing to force a battle between him and JaMarcus Russell in the off-season and to stop Oakland from taking maybe Tim Tebow or possinly Jimmy Clausen in the 2010 draft. Heyward-Bey is playing to prove that he is not the bust of the 2009 draft. He just got his first touchdown in an Thanksgiving massacre from the Cowboys. Kirk Morrison is in a contract year. The Raiders better put all they have into re-signing him but if they can’t keep him then he is playing for a massive contract in free-agency.
Although the season appears all but over. This is the first day of the rest of their lives.
