Raiders of a lost cause

SignOnSanDiego.com >Full Story Here: "This time, Al Davis wasn't summing up the ambitions of the team he has created in his image as 'Just win, baby.'

The Raiders had not won yesterday. They had been, in a word many of them chose, embarrassed. They had played so poorly that it was difficult to accept that they were, indeed, the team that has measured its triumphs not by games but by decades.

Yet after everything, after a 42-14 victory for the Chargers, after a fifth consecutive defeat this season for the Raiders and a 16th failure in their last 20 games, Davis still was defiant."