Oakland Raiders: Tic-Tac-Toe, Get Three in a Row

It's been a good year for those of us who needed to be humbled. Join me because I and others wrote some articles spouting out "high hopes" for the 2009 season, and it's been a year with a few highs and several lows.

Like a child who wants to get three x's in a row in tic-tac-toe, some of us would have been happy to see three consecutive victories in 2009. Two wins in a row would have made us happier, too.

So much was invested in JaMarcus Russell that some fans thought that surely he would give us "a very good year." Nope, it didn't happen.

Our heads swelled with pride when Bruce Gradkowski injected excitement, passion, and a higher degree of effectiveness in a couple of our games. Then, maybe because we got "a little bit too lifted up," our "rising star" was injured...

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