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Friday, August 22
Updated: August 28, 4:23 PM ET
 
Another Super Bowl run for Oakland?

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This is the last chance at a Super Bowl for this Raiders team.

Mike Golic
Fact: The Geritol bunch has done an excellent job of keeping the window of opportunity open, but they can only do it for so long. Between Rich Gannon, Tim Brown, Jerry Rice, Bill Romanowski, Rod Woodson, Trace Armstrong and John Parrella, there's no way they'll all be there again. As the saying goes, you have to make hay while the sun is shining and it's pretty close to sunset for this team.

Merril Hoge
Fiction: That's been said for three years. Bill Callahan is a coach who's been overlooked for doing a great coaching job because of what Jon Gruden accomplished. But people forget that Gruden wasn't able to get the Raiders to the Super Bowl and Callahan did. He has a way of walking around with a iron fist, while players respect him and want to play for him. With the way these players take care of themselves, I don't think it's their last chance.





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