When you’ve been as bad as the Raiders were through a large stretch of this season, seeing them put up a fight at all is enough to make the fans feel hope. Lately that’s what we’ve seen from this Raiders team — fight. It led to getting their biggest win of the season last week against the Steelers.
Despite it being just their third win, and their first against a winning team, it was confirmation for many who saw the Raiders showing improvement in recent weeks, that things could be looking up.
The result was a rise in the fan confidence poll to 39%, which is still not very high, but it’s the highest it has been since after week two when the Raiders lost by one point to the Broncos.