This season the Raiders have been a much improved team. They surpassed their entire 2014 win total by midseason and got their first win in week two while last week it took them until week 12 to post their first victory.
Starting 0-10 last season was rough. The losses kept piling up and at some point the Raiders were the team version of Russian roulette, with each of their opponents wondering who was going to be one to break that losing streak.
The reason that was somewhat expected was because anyone who follows the Raiders and Chiefs knows the old adage ‘you can throw the records out the window when these two teams face each other'.