Ahead of their bye week, the Raiders didn't inform their players of the upcoming schedule, which prevented them from making travel plans to see family. "My guess is there might be some strategy involved," Nnamdi Asomugha surmised. "Tom wanted guys focused on the game, that he didn't want guys looking ahead to the time off. If guys know when they'll be off, sometimes their minds wander from the task at hand. "I know it shouldn't be that way. We should be able to handle that, like any other team. But maybe we're not ready for that. I don't think we've reached that point." The general opinion seems to be that Cable probably couldn't provide a schedule because he was waiting for it to be authorized or dictated by Davis.