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In the history of this historic franchise, the Oakland Raiders never had more than two consecutive seasons of losing 10 or more games, in fact from 1960 to 2002 the Raiders had only had a total of four seasons .

Some things never change in San Diego, such as the great weather and LaDainian Tomlinson and the San Diego Chargers beating the hapless Oakland Raiders.

LIKE COAL miners and infantrymen, the Raiders are accustomed to carrying on regardless of conditions.

Raiders-Chargers live game blog... Greetings from the "Q"...a gorgeous day as the Raiders attempt to snap a 12-game losing streak to the Bolts, though there is a dark cloud hanging over Silver and Blackdom.

Enough with the moral victories, say the Raiders . Until the league starts holding moral-victory playoffs, they're not playing that game.

Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware has played like one of the NFL's best defenders.

The Raiders have a bucket list to finish before this season's dead, and it's getting shorter by the week.

Last week: Beat Philadelphia, 13-9. The skinny: The Raiders haven't exactly been backing up their famed motto of a "Commitment to Excellence." Instead, it's been more like a "Commitment to Mediocrity." They've gone 102 games since their last postseason appearance and are 26-76 during that span.

The Jets had hoped to get Jerricho Cotchery back from his hamstring injury in time to play Sunday in Oakland, but the starting wide receiver will miss his second straight week.

By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm in Oakland Raiders .

The Oakland Raiders' home game against the New York Jets on Sunday will be blacked out locally because the team did not sell out the game in time.

Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable remains under investigation. But in a good way. As in, can the man coach? He still has to convince a jury of football fans he can pull off the most daunting coaching job at the NFL's wackiest workplace.

It's simply that the Raiders have won one game in a row before. The trick now is to turn this into a win streak and not merely a tripped-over acorn.

Donovan McNabb can't whine about his weapons anymore. Upgrades like FB Leonard Weaver, TE Brent Celek and WR Jeremy Maclin give the offense dimensions it lacked last season and helped McNabb complete 66.7 percent of his passes and register a passer rating of 123.2 through two starts.

Oakland Raiders running back Justin Fargas, top right, leaps over Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel in the third quarter Sunday.

The Raiders really went all out Sunday, throwing out the outdated 1970's style playbook and implementingA a new defense the likes of which Oakland fans have never seen before.

Tom Cable was feeling pretty good about himself Sunday afternoon. He was chippy in needling the media "looking to write negative things, worry about all the B.S." He was randomly and rampantly throwing around hot-button words like "fight," a day before his own freedom could be decided by the Napa County District Attorney.

Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson OAKLAND -- Oakland cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha is back on the sideline with an eye injury.

Ten seasons ago, the Philadelphia Eagles hired a longtime offensive-line coach, entrusted him with turning around a woebegone franchise and hoped for the best.

Who's hot Oakland's Nnamdi Asomugha has established himself as the league's top cornerback.