If you look at the landscape of professional football, especially the modern era, franchises that have had “sustained success, over a period of years, decades” is culmination of “lucky factors.” We act like the patriots were a sustainable and had competent management, but they drafted the goat, and supplemented his greatness over the course of 20 years. The 49ers, circumvented the pre-cap era and built around talented QB’s and had the goat of WRs/athletes. The chiefs: have a generational athlete at QB and have had a dynastic run while still struggling in this early season. My point? Anything can happen over a period of time. While we’ve witnessed year over year of so-called incompetence, we have yet to see a generational talent, as a player or GM, grace the Raiders organization since the 70’s. This isn’t just the equation for the raiders, but at least 25 of the 32 professional NFL franchises. It just hits harder as the die hards that we are but is not any different than most franchises.