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Since the 2019 NFL schedules were released Jon Gruden has been asked many times about his feelings on the Raiders going a stretch of seven weeks without of a game in Oakland and he bristles every time. That stretch starts now and his feeling on it has not changed.“We are still trying to understand how that happened https://www.raiderslockerroom.com/authentic-derek-carr-jersey , but we are going to have to deal with it,” said Gruden. “We just got to showcase our mental toughness and deal with it. It’s uncommon, maybe unprecedented, maybe unrealistic that this should ever happen in pro football. I’m not excited about it, but we’ll adapt and do it the best we can.” Gruden has said something similar to this each time it comes up. He clinches his teeth and makes a snide comment about the schedule and wonders how it could have happened. If he is looking for answers, he doesn’t have to go far to get them. He can go down the hall to Mark Davis’s office.It was Davis who opted into giving away a home game to another country for the fifth time in the last six years — twice in Mexico City, thrice in London.From here the Raiders play in Minnesota and in Indianapolis, but instead of coming back to Oakland, they will once again play a ‘home’ game in London — the second year in a row and third since 2014.And this is after already sending one of their preseason games to Canada to play on an 80-yard field because of issues with the turf in the end zones where the CFL goal posts were removed. That was...fun.Davis opted into these trips. In part to please the league, which is allowing him to move the franchise to Las Vegas, and in part simply to take games away from the aged Oakland Coliseum.Losing one home game in the season isn’t the primary reason for the extended time away all in one lump. That is due to an attempt at a game of chicken with the City of Oakland which Davis ultimately lost, forcing him to keep playing in games at the only place that ever made any real sense in the first place.Late last season the City of Oakland threatened to file an antitrust lawsuit against the Raiders. Mark Davis responded by threatening to move the Raiders out of Oakland a year sooner than originally planned (that would be this year) if they went through with the suit. The City of Oakland went through with it, so Davis began trying to find another place for the Raider to play. Potential locations supposedly included San Diego, Santa Clara, San Francisco (AT&T) Derek Carr Jersey White , San Antonio (What’s with the San cities?) and even heading to Vegas early to share the stadium at UNLV.These threats lasted well past Roger Goodell’s soft deadlines and therefore well past when the schedule-makers were supposed to have had their plans well underway. Something they couldn’t do so long as they didn’t know where the Raiders would be playing. Making an entire NFL schedule is not easy. There are a lot of logistics to consider to arrange a schedule for 32 teams. Davis’s reluctance to give up his fight to play elsewhere and just play in Oakland (which seemed inevitable all along) likely resulted in two things to happen with regard to the schedule-makers; One, they weren’t going to be accepting much, if anything, in the way of requests from Davis after already taking all other owner requests under consideration. And two, they probably had a bit of resentment that Davis would hold up the entire process for no legitimate reason, causing them to at very least not care how screwed up the Raiders schedule became.The end result of all this is a seven week span until the Raiders play in Oakland again. They play in Minnesota, Indianapolis, London (Bears), Green Bay, and Houston with a bye week in between. The next time they play a game actually in Oakland is November 3 against the Lions — a stretch of 47 days.The Raiders have three straight home games when they do return, but if the road stint doesn’t go well, they would already be looking at a disheartening uphill climb the rest of the way.So, you can understand Gruden’s frustration over this. It IS unprecedented. But then so was the situation with Mark Davis and The City of Oakland, and the Raiders playing in Oakland for several years after making overt gestures to leave, and a couple years after officially announcing it they were leaving. This is all uncharted territory. Gruden signed up for this knowing he would be riding the waves as the team played out their last couple seasons in Oakland before leaving for Las Vegas. This scheduling thing is just another bump along the way.Follow @LeviDamien If you know a Broncos fan Womens Bo Jackson Jersey , maybe give them a call. Make sure they aren’t on any ledges or near any sharp objects. It was just three weeks ago, they were a mile high on their team. Their confidence level in their team has dropped like a rock off a skyscraper since then.Broncos fans came into the season with 93% confident in the direction of the team. That may seem high, but it’s in line with most fans; thirty NFL team’s fans had confidence levels in the 80’s and 90’s. The only team fans who were below 80% were Washington (76%) and Detroit (68%). Raider Nation came in at 82%.Starting the season 0-3 dropped the Raiders fan confidence to 32%. The OT win over the Browns bumped it up a little bit, but just so the brutal loss to the Chargers could drop them to 19%.That incremental drop seems logical. As does the confidence levels of the Chiefs (99%) and Chargers (58%), who are both coming off wins. The Chiefs, of course, are 5-0 on the season and many are asking whether they are the best team in football. Though the only fans who think they’re better than the Rams are Chiefs fans.Perhaps it’s watching the Chiefs run away with the division with a young star at quarterback. Perhaps it’s the Broncos own journeyman QB or the bad coaching that’s led to them losing three straight. But the Broncos fan confidence is now at 4%. FOUR PERCENT!This for a team that started the season 2-0 after beating the Raiders on a late drive for a game-winning field goal. Now they’re 2-3 and just got destroyed by the Jets with Isaiah Crowell running for 219 yards (!!!) and a touchdown on 19 carries. And Bilal Powel added 99 yards on 20 carries. The Broncos got trampled.That defense was supposed to be the Broncos’ strong point, so giving up that kind of yardage to anyone, let alone a mediocre Jets team, has drained all the hope from Broncos fans. Even less hope than Raiders fans, despite the Raiders having a worse record and losing to them this season already.I guess when you expect too much from the start, you are just setting yourself up for disappointment. That’s why we do our best to keep our readers grounded. Sugar is nice, but it burns away and then you crash hard. Follow @LeviDamien