The Raiders finished off the 2010 season on a high note demolishing the Kansas City Chief 31-10 in cold Arrow Head Stadium. The Raiders will miss the playoffs this year, but they have much to look forward to using this last game as a springboard into the 2011 season. Kansas City will be in the playoffs as the AFC West champs, but today the Raiders looked like the playoff bound team. The Raiders ran the ball, moved the sticks when they had to, and put 24 offensive points on the board. On defense they stopped the run, harassed QB Matt Casell all day, and they collected two interceptions, one that they took back for a touchdown.
To take advantage of their first non-losing season since 2002, and to propel them into next year's playoffs, the Raiders must reward their coach Tom Cable with a new contract. Any coach will tell you the toughest thing to do is to turn around a losing team into a bunch of winners. Tom Cable has done that in Oakland. Tom Cable is a coach, a teacher, a motivator, and a father figure for these young Raider players. The job Tom Cable has done in instilling a winning attitude in his players cannot be underestimated. He has his players playing hard, tough nosed football for 60 minutes each and every game. Even in the games the Raiders didn't play well, they never stopped, and they played hard. This is a huge improvement over the Raiders of the past nine years.
The Raiders are young, big, strong, and fast. It is now up to Al Davis to keep the man that has given the team stability, and has righted the Oakland Raider ship. Tom Cable can turn them into champions.
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