We’re just a few days away before the Denver Broncos face the Oakland Raiders in O.co Coliseum on November 6, 2011. Though it’s still a little early to know 100% who will be in and who will be out, there have been a lot of changes going on this week for the Silver and Black. Here is a look at the newest arrivals, and significant players who are likely to miss this battle

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For nearly a half-century, the Oakland Raiders were always Al Davis’ team. He picked the players, hired the coaches and devised many of the strategies that led to decades of success, as well as the team’s recent struggles.

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Oakland Raiders offensive coordinator Al Saunders is known for the extensive verbiage and complexity contained in his playbooks — when he was with the Washington Redskins, word got out about 700-page playbooks,” and while any playbook has a lot of different iterations of the same basic concept, it’s also true that no matter how you slice it, Saunders likes to have a lot of concepts on the field. That’s why it was a bit surprising that Raiders head coach Hue Jackson had Carson Palmer(notes) going in to replace quarterback Kyle Boller(notes) in the Raiders’ 28-0 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs just days after he had been traded from the Cincinnati Bengals the previous Tuesday. The move was made to shore up the team’s quarterback position after Jason Campbell(notes) broke his collarbone

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ALAMEDA, Calif.  —  The Oakland Raiders’ bye week is coming at just the right time. With new quarterback Carson Palmer still trying to shake off the rust and learn a new offense and new teammates and star running Darren McFadden and other key players nursing injuries, the Raiders can sure use this time to regroup from a 28-0 loss to Kansas City and get back on track with two big division games on the horizon.

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Palmer had just three practices with the Raiders before making his debut in Sunday’s 28-0 loss to Kansas City. So the task this week will be to learn the offense, build a rapport on and off the field with his receivers and get back into football shape after more than nine months away from the game. “This bye week may be the most valuable to me of anybody in the league, other than a guy who is really hurt or nursing a serious injury,” Palmer said

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Darren McFadden was on crutches, Rolando McClain was in a protective boot and there was plenty of mental anguish to go around as the Raiders spent the first day of their bye week Monday reviewing their face-plant against the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Just a few days before the Oakland Raiders were headed to Houston to face the Texans, owner Al Davis was still around, and the Silver and Black had a record of 2-2. Not bad, but not great either. When I predicted what the future might hold over their next three games, I had surmised that they would finish with a 4-3 record

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The focus this week will be on getting Palmer up to speed with the offense in time to take over the starting role Nov.

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The Oakland Raiders’ bye week is coming at just the right time.

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A little of this and a lot of that, following Week 7 in the NFL … – Nothing can demoralize an NFL quarterback and his offense quite like giving up a pick six. Unless, of course, your quarterback gives up six picks instead

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POSTED: 10:09 pm CDT October 23, 2011 LOS ANGELES — In the end, it didn’t much matter whether Kyle Boller or Carson Palmer played quarterback for the Oakland Raiders. The Kansas City Chiefs had their way with both.Kendrick Lewis and Brandon Flowers returned interceptions for touchdowns and the Chiefs took advantage of rusty quarterback play from Boller and Palmer to beat the Oakland Raiders 28-0 on Sunday.Boller became the first Raiders quarterback in 13 years to throw three interceptions in the first half, including Lewis’ 59-yard score on the first drive of the game for Oakland (4-3).

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The Kansas City Chiefs shutout the hapless Oakland Raiders by a score of 28-0 Oct. 23 in Oakland. Two interceptions by the Chiefs defense led directly to touchdowns as the Raiders couldn’t find their offense without injured quarterback Jason Campbell(notes).

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In the Raiders’ brave Hue World, their coach isn’t just the undisputed boss, he is also lead publicist and attention-getter-in-chief. Which is good — when the Raiders, bound by Hue Jackson’s inspiration, come together through grief and drama

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There are only so many unfortunate events that can happen without it affecting the outcome of a game, and the Oakland Raiders seem to have had one too many going into O.co Coliseum to face the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, October 23.

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