Breakdown: The Oakland Raiders are feeling good about themselves having won free agency, so to speak, but they need to win games on the field to show they have turned a corner. A tough start to the season with three of their first four games on the road -- at New Orleans to open, home against Atlanta, at Tennessee and at Baltimore -- will test their mettle. Then again, at least they will have to play only one regular-season game on the dirt infield of the Oakland Coliseum. One sign of the Raiders' re-emergence in the league: They have three prime-time games (home against the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos in Week 9, in Mexico City against Houston two weeks later, and at the Kansas City Chiefs on Dec .
Raiders back in national limelight with three prime-time games
