In the vast amount of places you can point your finger as to the Raiders’ losing season, there’s one we haven’t heard in a while. It was Raiders sideline reporter and former tackle Lincoln Kennedy to dust off an oldie but a goody — maybe it was the anthem protests?
“If there was one thing that I think had some underlining effects but I don’t know how — it’s just a feeling, it’s just a gut-wrench feeling — the whole anthem controversy, I think, affected (the team) mentally,” Kennedy said in an interview with Bay Area radio station 95.