Stages of development often are a part of something that becomes beautiful, glorious and honorable. Let's begin to look at the past seven years as the stage of development for what we anticipate in 2010.

We expect a beautiful, powerful and glorious team, the Oakland Raiders. Emerging from a hard, dark place somewhat like a cocoon, it has been a place of development.

Just as the length of time in the hard, dark pla...

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