Every week in the NFL is a learning experience. For players, for coaches, and most importantly at a vertical where “bet” is right there in the title, anyone laying cash as an offering to the football gods.
The tricky part is identifying which of these lessons fall into a larger trend and which are one-offs. Every team is capable of rising to highly-desired heights or crashing to an unexpected nadir without either greatly affecting their bottom line. Hell, the Raiders typically dabble in both columns a few times per season.