I did start this thread with a question and asked if another team has ever had as much heart as this year's Raiders team. So far all I've read is how some of you hate the Raiders passionately and how much you love some other team. Let me explain to those who don't know exactly what this team has experienced so far this year; We have lost our head coach for good after 5 games. No team has made the playoffs after losing their head coach midseason in over 60 years. We lost our number one draft pick from last year who is also our number one wideout permanently due to a terrible lapse in judgement. We lost a second first round selection from the same draft due to inabilities or whatever. To top all that off, I won't mention covid because all teams endure that to this day, we lost our number 1 target TE Darren Waller due to injuries at the most critical time while trying to make a playoff run. This team was on skids and lost 5 of 6 games. They didn't give up and convinced each other that they were not going down without a fight even though they were underdogs, sometimes by wide margins, every single week. Remember how the pundits were stating the fact "no one wants to play the Colts in the playoffs"? The Raiders went there as double digit underdogs and their playoff hopes were on life support and pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the year. The Colts never recovered and are no longer the team nobody wanted to play in the playoffs because they are not even in the playoffs. I won't get into why we won that game or the other games and all excuses from other teams are irrelevant at this point. The fact is this team went on a 4 game rampage and beat some very good teams just to have a chance at a highly coveted playoff birth. If you know of a team who has had as much heart, I would like to read about them please. And for the record, I never felt "called on it".Not really - one of our brothers started the thread with a simple statement and then got called on it.
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