Oakland Raiders 2009 Schedule Released

I’m not going to try and guess a record based on the schedule (that’s why they play the games), but my initial reaction was that the second half of the season seemed a bit harder, with games at Dallas, at Pittsburgh (brr!), at Cleveland (brr!), at Denver (brr!), etc. I think you’re going to see JaMarcus rolling like this a lot in the second half of the season:

I love playing 3 division games in a row to start the season – it provides us an excellent opportunity to announce our presence with authority. Winning two of those three games could go a long way toward making a run at the AFC West title.

of the fact that between traveling to New York to play the Giants in mid-October and visiting the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, we don’t need to leave California for six weeks (including the bye). And all four home contests are winnable.

But yeah, that December looks pretty brutal.

and we came away with two wins there, which we should manage this December if we can beat either Washington/Denver or Cleveland. Two of those three we should win. Cleveland for sure, but Denver and Washington are iffy. The good news with Washington is, is that Portis should be injured by then (due to age)

Look for us to start the first quarter of the season either 2-2 or 3-1. We should beat Denver because they’ll need time to meld together and the Chiefs for obvious reasons. We’ll then win one of the two between Houston and San Diego. It depends on how well Meriman plays and how good Sproles and LT are for SD.

The Houston game is all about how their defense is. We can hold them on offense if we can force them to pass, but that defense has most of the pieces to be good. It’ll be interesting to see how Houston turns out.

It is difficult, but I think it is better than having an easy one. If one always gets easy opponents, they won’t prepare hard enough for that opposing team. (Evident from the previous season: Falcons, Dolphins, etc)

We have to play 3 of our division rivals the 1st 3 week and I believe it will test our skills.

Week 5-8 will be tough. Giants, Eagles, Jets, and then Chargers. We will be tested heavily during the beginning of our season and should really prove to us how good we are.

The bye week is set at the perfect point in our schedule. It is right in the middle of the season giving us a break from our difficult opponents.

Those two games after the bye seem easy and should be manageable.

Than, we have Pittsburgh and Dallas. OMG, this is crazy. I hope we can at least compete with these two and at least show them we belong in the NFL. Tough games.

The final 3 games should be okay except for the Ravens.

Overall, I think this will be a fun season. It contains worthy opponents. It is manageable since it is broken down so preferably for the Raiders.

I predict at least a 8-8 record.

I think we’ll split the AFC West (3-3) and beat the Bengals and Jets at home, so that will take us to five wins. I think in the road games between the Texans, Browns, Giants, Steelers, and Cowboys, we can take one of those. That brings our total up to six. Maybe we’ll handle the Redskins at home, but yeah, I think 6-10 or 7-9 is the realistic record from my viewpoint.

I think we go 9 and 7, and i think i am a realistic fan.

I think we split with SD and sweep the donkeys and KC should beat the Browns, Redskins and Bengals and a good chance against the Jets and Houston

We face a lot of good RB’s obviously LT, LJ, plus Jacobs, Portis, Parker, Barber / Jones, Mcgahee

A good chance to win 9 or 10 if we can stop the run better this year, and have a more balanced attack on offense

I think playing our division in the first three weeks are great it will show how we measure up in the AFC-West early and the best thing about it we will be sitting at 1st in week four after we beat all of them. I like our Bye week at number 9 it will be the half way mark for us and then we will start the hard part of our season. I would like to challenge our rookies early and see what they got against good teams. Thank god KC has one of the hardest Teams to play.

That it’s good that we have 10 days in between the Dallas game and the Pittsburgh game. We’re gonna need all of the rest we can possibly get to put up a fight against the Steelers in Pittsburgh.

but I’ll say 7 because I’m iffy on Washington and Houston. We’ll win one of those two, but I don’t think both.