Keidel: Raiders Need Win Way More Than Patriots Do

By Jason Keidel
Every year we look down with cynical eyes upon New England. We address the twin realities of time and talent. We all get old. We all lose our fastball.
So we wonder when Tom Brady will lose his fastball, and when the New England Patriots will follow him into athletic mortality. And yet every agonizing year it never happens. To the world west of Boston, we wait… and wait.
And then something happens. On a random autumn Sunday, Brady looks brutal. Or the Pats get vaporized by