"The adage that goes around in professional football, and I hear everyone say it, 'Take what they give you.' That all sounds good to everybody but I always went the other way -- 'We're going to take what we want.'" -- Al Davis, to NFL Films
HENDERSON, Nev. -- It's a fine line, really, between taking what a defense gives you and taking what you want from a defense, a line the Las Vegas Raiders' on-again, off-again potent offense has straddled repeatedly this season.
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