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Jon Gruden and the 6-4 Raiders Have All the Haters Eating Crow

There are many of us who owe the Oakland Raiders an apology. You do. I do. All of you who made fun of Jon Gruden's $100 million contract do. A bunch of you who said quarterback Derek Carr couldn't hit the Pacific Ocean do. Others who said new GM Mike Mayock should have stayed in a television studio do.

Lots of apologies owed. From every. Single. One of us.

Go ahead and swallow your pride. You can do it. I can. C'mon.

We were wrong.

Granted, the Raiders are far from perfect, and the distance between them and the two best teams in the AFC, the Ravens and Patriots, is about the same distance as Earth to Alpha Centauri (spoiler alert: it's far).