by Jeremy Kahn

photo credit bleacher report Amari Cooper

ALAMEDA–After taking alook at Thursday night’s game at Century Link in Seattle against the Seahawks in their 31-21 ten point loss the Oakland Raiders are going to be a lot better than a lot of people expect them to be. The Seahwaks quarterback Russell Wilson threw only one pass that evening for 63 yards and if you had to throw one pass make it your best and Wilson did heaving a 63 yarder for a touchdown.

Wilson is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL and ironically Ken Norton Jr is the defensive coordinator for the Raiders right now and has spent five years with head coach Pete Carroll in Seattle so he should know what Wilson is going to do. Tyler Lockett the receiver who caught Wilson’s pass for the touchdown is going to be the top receiver on the Seahawks this season.

Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper whose coming into this season has to be one of the top draft picks the Raiders have had in many years. They had to deal with previous top draft pick failings with former quarterback JaMarcus Russell and also with wide receiver Darrius Heyward Bey who is now with Pittsburgh.

I would have to go and do the research and see how far back that the Raiders had any player of his caliber. I wouldn’t go back as far as Charles Woodson, the Raiders have drafted players that have been standouts and that have been in this league a long time. Woodson played 18 years, will Cooper play 18 years who knows? The wide receiver position is a very tough position and one of the hardest position in the game.

The Raiders are going to open up their first two games of the season at home and this is the first time since 1969 that the Raiders have had the first two games at home and that’s pretty amazing it’s been 46 years and they won the AFL championship that year and lost to Kansas City and lost to Minnesota in the Super Bowl.

Jeremy Kahn is a beat reporter who covers the Oakland Raiders for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below