Raiders News: Las Vegas to play 2nd-toughest schedule in 2021 – Silver And Black Pride

Its no secret that many people feel like the NFL hates and actively works against the Las Vegas Raiders. Whether its blown calls by the officials on the field, botched replay reviews (Im not going to say it...) or just some of the decisions the league makes, sometimes it feels like Pete Rozelle and Al Davis are still fighting with each other.

Well, Raider Nations conspiracy theorists just got more fuel to the fire...

Todd Dewey of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote an article yesterday evaluating the difficulty of every NFL teams schedule this season, using odds from Las Vegas sportsbooks. The Pittsburgh Steelers drew the toughest schedule as their opponents combine for 156 projected wins, per line makers. Just behind the Steelers is their long-time AFC rivals, with 155.5 projected wins for the Raiders adversaries.

Now, Las Vegas does play in a tough division as the win totals for every team in the AFC West are as follows:

So, the Raiders schedule would be tough regardless if Rozelles ghost is still haunting the Davis family.

Heres what Westgate vice president of risk Ed Salmons had to say about the AFC West and the Silver and Blacks difficult schedule:

That division is tough. Denver and the Chargers are rated really high even though they disappointed last year. Theres not one easy game in that division. It kind of feels like the same thing every year for the Raiders where they have a hard schedule. At some point, they need to make a jump forward and win some more games.

At the end of the day, the games are still played on the field and all that really matters is the last sentence of Salmons quote. Its time for the Raiders to win some games and prove everyone wrong!

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