Quote: Yeah, shittenheimer brings it when his teams play the Raiders but without LT the motherfucker doesn't do shit. Shannahan is a very good coach who does well with any team he's given, but let's see if his qb savior is the answer. Jury is still out on that. As far as Herm Edwards goes, he was the Raiders bitch a few years back when they were making their playoff runs. Like I said earlier. The Raiders have the best Defense in the AFC west and will probably have the best defense next year too. All they need is a moderately good O and things will be fine.
Schott beat them OFTEN with KC & with Cleveland, too. Though he needs to prove it, I wouldn't bet against Cutler - but there will be a learning curve.
Herm did beat the Raiders in a big game to make the playoffs. The Raiders' tight man-to-man completely negates Pennington. The guy's got Larry Johnson now. He bettered 150 & 130 yards in those games and your D was pretty good.
The one thing you've got is the Mangini factor: As devout a Jet fan as I am I would NEVER have believed that the Jets would have made the playoffs this year. So, any team can turn it around but quick.