Raiders’ coaching staff goes with the flow

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Raiders fans have been a patient bunch, and so have the last few losing coaching staffs — to a fault.

Who can forget defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan in 2011 continuing to drop stiff-in-the-hips middle linebacker Rolando McClain farther and farther back into coverage … until he was matched against Detroit receiver Calvin Johnson on a game-deciding play. (Which didn’t go well.)

Or offensive coordinator Greg Knapp preaching in 2012 that the stagnant zone run-blocking scheme just needed more time … in Week 11.

Or even last year, when head coach Dennis Allen and interim head coach Tony Sparano continued to hand the ball to Dennis McFadden and watch…