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(Sports Network) - It's not just the Florida weather anymore.

Though he's already got division titles, playoff appearances and a Super
Bowl championship on his resume with Tampa Bay, Buccaneers coach Jon
Gruden can't be blamed if hes feeling heat of the non-thermometer
variety on the final weekend of the 2008 season.

Winners of the NFC South with a 9-7 mark a year ago, Gruden and Co.
seemed on the way to an impressive repeat with nine wins in 12 games
this time around, before an untimely three-week skid squandered both the
division title chance and possibly the postseason as a whole.

The Buccaneers enter a curtain-dropping date with the Oakland Raiders -
whom Gruden coached to 38 wins in four seasons from 1998-2001 - needing
both a non-loss and a Christmas miracle's worth of help to reach the
promised land for the fourth time in seven years.

Against the visiting Silver and Black, Tampa Bay can punch its ticket
via any one of the following five scenarios, courtesy of the NFL's
intrepid crew of late-December stat geeks:

By JOSH DUBOW

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — JaMarcus Russell dropped back to pass, read the
defense and then found Chaz Schilens with a fade in the corner of the
end zone against man coverage.

That play in last week's victory over Houston was just what the Oakland
Raiders expected from Russell when they drafted him No. 1 overall in
2007 and what has often been lacking for much of his first full season
as a starter.

But as Russell heads into the final game of his first full season as a
starting NFL quarterback on Sunday at Tampa Bay, it is clear that he is
making strides toward becoming the franchise player the Raiders have
been waiting for since that draft day.

"People expect for things to be quick, fast, in a hurry," Russell said.
"They don't really know football, because there's a process, and now
we're on one of those building stages of the process. I'm happy to be a
part of that because once things start getting going, then everybody
wants to be praising, pat you on your back."

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Inside Slant

Kirk Morrison is growing tired of wins coming with the frequency of a
mortgage payment.

"I did a postgame show and I was talking about how we play good once a
month, one game a month," Morrison said. "You're talking about Kansas
City in September, the Jets in October, Denver in November and now
Houston in December.

"So I definitely want to put back-to-back games together."

Should the Raiders win two in a row for the first time this year, doing
on the road and knocking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers out of a chance at the
playoffs, it could well determine the immediate future of the franchise.

Coach Tom Cable, the Raiders interim coach since Sept. 30, is eager to
discuss his future with owner Al Davis.

Since Jon Gruden lasted four years before being dealt to Tampa Bay
following the 2001 season, Davis has put Bill Callahan, Norv Turner, Art
Shell and Lane Kiffin through the shredder.

Morrison, a starting middle linebacker in his fourth season, has had
four head coaches -- Turner, Shell, Kiffin and Cable.

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By David White

Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell was drafted to save the franchise
from its misery. But then, so was Ryan Leaf.

Russell's arm was so strong and oh so powerful, but so was Jeff
George's. Russell was a can't-miss prospect with serious upside, as was
David Carr.

Until two weeks ago, concerned members of the team payroll had every
reason to wonder if the next John Elway was just another Tim Couch, a
No. 1 overall draft pick who couldn't quarterback his team out of a
paper bag.

Put the bust chatter on hold. After two solid performances, "Everyone
Loves JaMarcus" is back in syndication - just in time for Sunday's
season finale at Tampa Bay, where the mood of an entire offseason is at
stake.

"He's starting to put it together," Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden said.
"All he needs is a little confidence and success, and that's what
springboards a guy.

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By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer

In large part because Lane Kiffin and Al Davis spent the better part of
six months slinging stockings full of coal at each other rather than
trying to reach common ground and improve a sagging franchise, it’s
another dreary December at 1220 Harbor Bay Parkway.

A 27-16 win over the Houston Texans was a nice diversion, because the
Raiders are 4-24 in December since 2003. A few things the Raiders did
find under their tree this year:

– A budding playmaker in Johnnie Lee Higgins. Six touchdowns, an average
of 72 yards per score. Recovered from some early ball-secruity issues
and a bit of brainlock on a kickoff return against Baltimore.

Whoever runs this offense next year can’t let this guy get lost in the
shuffle.

– The enthusiasm of Darren McFadden. He’ll get outrushed by six or seven
other rookies because of turf toe. If this isn’t a recurring problem, a
couple of plays stand out as to why he could be something special.

Remembering Electric Football
Exclusive: Jack Cashill shares memories of 'single worst game ever created'
Posted: December 25, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

By Jack Cashill

Every other Christmas, in the guise of Santa, my kindly father would
place under the tree a game that held an oddly wondrous appeal both for
him and for us. The game was called simply "Electric Football."

I say "oddly" because Electric Football may well have been the single
worst game ever created. The "every other year" was a necessary interval
to help us forget just how bad the game really was.

The "us" in question were my brother Bob and I, "Irish twins," born less
than a year apart.

This under-reported but agonizing condition climaxed for us each year at
Christmas, as it was the two weeks from Dec. 15 until Dec. 30 that "we
were the same age," a half-truth my mother never tired of repeating,
much to our irritation, even to complete strangers.

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By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer

News, notes and analysis following a shorter-than-usual practice, with
many players high-tailing it out of the locker room to be with their
families on Christmas Eve:

– Jeff Garcia is so eager to play the Raiders he muscled his way past
Derrick Brooks so he could do the conference call.

“When they told me I wasn’t talking to you guys I actually kind of
stirred up a little something . . . you have me talk to everybody else
every week that I really couldn’t care about, you don’t have me talk
this weekend?,” Garcia said, explaining why he and not Brooks was on the
call. “That’s why you ended up getting me. I pushed for it, and you
wouldn’t hear of a player pushing to speak to a reporter.”

A first in recorded history, I do believe.

Defending Garcia is not a laughing matter. He has only played against
Oakland twice _ back when the Raiders were winning three consecutive
division titles _ and he was magnificent. In 2000, Garcia was 28 of 41
for 336 yards and four touchdowns, with the Raiders winning in overtime
on a Rich Gannon pass to Tim Brown.

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By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer

Jon Gruden has been gone so long his Bucs-Raiders storyline has taken a
back seat to that of his defensive coordinator.

“There’s been a lot of water going under the bridge,” Gruden told Bay
Area writers by conference call Wednesday. “There’s been a lot of talk
about the Kiffins . . . Lane Kiffin, the former head coach of the
Raiders, Monte Kiffin, leaving here to go to Tennessee so there’s people
going to be talking about that, I think moreso than when I was there.”

Gruden said had no dialogue with Lane Kiffin following his firing and
wasn’t asked for his advice before Kiffin took the job. He wanted no
part of getting whatever problems the Raiders might have and wanted to
accentuate the positive.

“There seems to be some people wanting to say that I had a bad
experience there. I didn’t have a bad experience there. I had a good
experience there,” Gruden said. “We won a lot of games, we had a lot of
good players so I can’t really comment on what’s happened since I’ve
been gone.

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