The Oakland Raiders Must Alter the Pattern and Start Winning

I am busy at 1:46 am CT, researching and thinking about the situation with the Oakland Raiders following their blowout loss to the Tennessee Titans.

The patterns of the past must be perturbed, shaken and disturbed. They must change.

Here is a little data to support my viewpoint.

Oakland Raiders, First and Second Game of Regular Season:  Win-Loss Record for the Decade

LW 2009

LW 2008

LL 2007

LL 2006

LL 2005

LW 2004

LW 2003

WW 2002

WL 2001

WW 2000

St. Louis Rams, First and Second Game of Regular Season:  Win-Loss Record for the Decade

LL 2009

LL 2008

LL 2007

WL 2006

LW 2005

WL 2004

LW 2003

LL 2002

WW 2001

WW 2000

Historical Observations

1. The St. Louis Rams and the Oakland Raiders seem to be mirror images of each other if you compare the win-loss percentage of the second game of the regular season.

2. From 2000 to 2009, the Rams won only 40 percent of the second game of the regular season. It means that they loss 60 percent of the second game of the regular season.

3. From 2000 to 2009, the Oakland Raiders won 60 percent of the second game of the regular season. The Raiders loss 40 percent of the second game of the regular season.

4. During this time period and focusing on the second game of the regular season, the Rams only had one consecutive set of wins. In 2001 and in 2000 the Rams won their second game of the regular season.

5. The Raiders had two sets of consecutive wins of the second game of the regular season. In 2008 and 2009, the Raiders won their second game of the regular season for each of those years. They won three consecutive second games of the regular season in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

So where do we want the perturbation. In other words, when and where do we want the past patterns to be disturbed.

Here is an answer. We do not want two consecutive losses. We expect a victory over the Rams.

We do want consecutive wins in 2010.

And you, the reader can add to the list of pattern changes that we expect.

Go Raiders! We want some perturbation of the data to make things right!