By. Joe Hawkes-Beamon

OAKLAND — Following Oakland’s 24-7 road loss to the Kansas City Chiefs that dropped Oakland to 2-4, Raiders starting quarterback Terrelle Pryor made the boldest prediction to date in his young career.

“We have to come together and start creating…We’ll be back; 2-4; we’ll get to the playoffs,” Pryor said per CSN Bay Area.

As a die-hard Raiders fan, you got to love Pryor’s confidence following a tough battle with a bitter rival, but the playoffs for the Raiders this season is out of the question this season. There are too many hurdles for them to climb over.

Oakland winning the AFC West?

Not going to happen.

Denver and Kansas City both sit perched a top the division as the two lone undefeated teams in the league at 6-0 and Oakland is 0-2 against both this season.

Even though Oakland holds a 27-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers at home, San Diego is 3-3 after dispatching Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts 19-9 before a nationwide audience on Monday Night Football.

Clinching a wild card berth may be even tougher this season with a stacked AFC. Teams like Miami (3-2), Baltimore (3-3), Cleveland (3-3), and the New York Jets (3-3) all currently having better records than Oakland so enough with the playoff talk already.

Pryor should use Oakland’s bye week to figure out how he is going to survive the season behind a shaky and injury-plagued offensive line. Kansas City brutalized Pryor, sacking him 10 times and knocking him down 16 last Sunday but Pryor didn’t point fingers.

“This loss is on me. I’ll take it,” he said. “I’ll make sure we get better. As the leader of the offense, I have to make sure it happens. It will.”

With the 13th ranked defense in football, Oakland knows it will be in most games this season. Outside of the 37-21 loss in Denver in Week 3 where Pryor left the game with a concussion, Oakland has remained competitive in each game this season.

But again, the spotlight will be on Pryor to continue to “get better” and have Oakland heading in the right direction.

Give Pryor credit on one thing: he knows that in order for the Raiders to be better offensively (27th overall), it falls on his shoulders, but not his alone.

The continued growth of wide out Denarius Moore would be good. A healthy running back by the name of Darren McFadden would be an even bigger help.

It will be interesting when the Raiders take the field after the bye week when they host the 1-4 Pittsburgh Steelers because Pryor has but himself and the Raiders on notice.

It’s playoffs or bust.

But don’t get fooled.

Oakland has too many hurdles to climb and too many teams to overtake to make the playoffs this season.