The Oakland Raiders just keep taking care of business. In Week 11, they defeated the Bengals to improve to 6-4 on the season. While it wasn’t an impressive win by any measure, Oakland has now won three-straight games and is in a prime position to steal a wild card spot in the second year of Jon Gruden’s rebuild.
The Raiders are starting to garner more national attention after their winning streak. Recently, they have moved inside of Doug Farrar’s top-10 in his latest power ranking list at the Touchdown Wire. Take a look at Farrar’s thoughts on the team’s Week 11 win:
Another week, another opportunity to praise a Raiders rookie class that looks as strong as any in recent seasons. This time around, it was fourth-round pass-rusher Maxx Crosby who stood out, with four sacks, four tackles for loss, three quarterback hits, and a forced fumble in Oakland’s 17-10 win over the Bengals — a win that has Oakland pressing Kansas City for first place in the AFC West. Derek Carr was great, completing his first 14 attempts, and tight end Darren Waller continued a season in which he appears to be impossible to cover consistently.
If Oakland can take care of business this week against a Jets’ team that is playing better, it’s certainly possible that we see them move up even further. But for the Raiders to be inside the top-10 of any power ranking list at this point in the season is beyond impressive.
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