This season is turning out to be something special for your Oakland Raiders. With nine games under their belts this season, the team is sitting at 5-4 and is sporting the best record since 2002. It seems that coach Cables words have finally sunk in and after upsetting Pittsburgh last season in a come from behind victory, the Steelers loom large this week. "It began when they started to buy into communicating with each other," Cable said. "It may have happened at the beginning, but it seemed to permeate and go all through camp. I felt like from the day we went to work the last day in Napa, we had become closer, we learned to appreciate each other and respect each other's opinion. That's hard to do sometimes at this level. But when you get them willing to talk to each other and learn about each other, it kind of makes you understand where a guy's coming from sometimes. Once we started communicating, then we gave ourselves a chance."