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When is the key stretch of Raiders’ 2020 season schedule?

May 9, 2020 by Silver And Black Pride Leave a Comment

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Crucial part of season starts after bye

The NFL released its regular season schedule Thursday, and while the Raiders’ schedule is undeniably tough — facing the Saints, Patriots, Panthers, Chiefs and Bills in Weeks 1-5 … then it eases up after the bye week.

Keep this in mind.

The Raiders face, by far, the toughest schedule in the NFL weeks 1-11.

Then they face the second easiest from weeks 12-17. pic.twitter.com/CVBKYtPZhi

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) May 8, 2020

I believe the key to the Raiders’ season — this team is, no doubt, shooting for one of the seven playoff spots in the AFC — is Weeks 7-10.

The four-game stretch coming out of the bye very well may define the Raiders’ season. It is not an overly daunting stretch. It begins with a home game on Sunday night against Tampa Bay. The Raiders have back-to-back road games at Cleveland and in LA for the Chargers, and then come home to play Denver. None of these opponents are going to be world beaters. No, I’m not sold on the Tom Brady Buccaneers.

These should all be games the Raiders can easily compete in. They need to go no worse than 3-1 in this quarter of these season.

The Raiders host the Chiefs in Week 11 and the then schedule gets a lot easier to finish the season.

The first five games are going to be tough. But if the Raiders can go 2-3 and then go 4-0 in Weeks 7-10, they will be set up well for the stretch run. Even if they lose to the Chiefs to drop to 6-4, they are set up well to go, at least, 4-2 in the final six games to get to 10 wins. It would be a shock if a 10-win team doesn’t make a seven-team playoff.

Yet, they must take advantage of Weeks 7-10.

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