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Raiders show some fight to go with new schemes

October 19th, 2009

Raiders coach Tom Cable challenged his players to take the fight to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Take your best shot, go down swinging, see what happens. What transpired defied logic. The on-the-ropes Raiders - losers of three in a row by a combined 80 points - delivered a technical knockout of the 3-1 and seemingly rising Eagles with a 13-9 victory at the half-empty Oakland Coliseum. “We went out and threw a fight on somebody and said, ‘Enough, let’s play,’ ” Cable said. “That’s all you can say. There are no magic words or anything like that.” More impressively, the game wasn’t nearly as competitive as the score indicated. The Raiders came out swinging, kept up the pressure and …

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Raiders show some fight to go with new schemes

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