Oakland Raiders: If The Unorthodox Works, Why Not Run With It?

The Raiders have never been like the rest of the NFL.

No kidding...I can hear a few fans already saying that, or something cuter.

But realize it, for all it's fun, it has worked better for this team to embrace the unorthodox.

Take a look at the team in 1980. If you were a fan back then, weren't you a little shocked when Ken Stabler was sent packing? Or Jack Tatum? Earlier in the past, John Madden left, for medical reasons, Fred Biletnikoff was gone and Al Davis had a solution for Stabler....Dan Pastorini!

Who?

Dan Pastorini, for the uninformed, was the third quarterback taken back in 1971, third player overall that year. He had the ability to a...

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