Stages of development often are a part of something that becomes beautiful, glorious and honorable. Let's begin to look at the past seven years as the stage of development for what we anticipate in 2010.
We expect a beautiful, powerful and glorious team, the Oakland Raiders. Emerging from a hard, dark place somewhat like a cocoon, it has been a place of development.
Just as the length of time in the hard, dark place is different for different butterflies so it has been for the Oakland Raiders, a long, seven years.
But, during those seven years so much has been learned.
Quick fixes didn't work. We believe Al Davis has learned that lesson.
The team has had to wait for such a time as this, when so much talent is bonded together for a common cause. That cause is called victory or winning games.
Impatience would be like a human touching the strange looking structure hanging on a tree, say, in California. It is said that if a human touches the cocoon, it will hinder the development of the beautiful butterfly destined to emerge from the hard, dark place.
So, when we in the Raider Nation make those unrealistic proposals which may touch th...
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