HENDERSON, Nev. -- Aidan O'Connell has heard the rumblings. He's felt them since his playing days at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill.
They reverberated in his six years on campus at Purdue.
And they have surfaced again -- numerous times -- in his star-crossed two-season stint with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Since he's never been a bona fide, true-blue, no-doubt-about-it No. 1 starter at quarterback, he's always had to look over his shoulder at who might be gaining ground on him. So yeah, O'Connell has grown comfortable with being, well, uncomfortable as the Raiders prepare for a cross-country trip to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.