Antonio Gates was asked this week how he expects the Raiders to defend him on Sunday. "The Raiders are one of the few teams that are not a sugarcoat kind of team," Gates said. "They believe in their abilities to cover, they believe in their athletes, you just got to go out and beat them. They put themselves in position to match athlete against athlete. That's what they strive on. They are tremendously athletic. "Their secondary, going through our game (film), when you think about some of the better secondaries in the league, the Raiders are definitely a secondary that comes up. So, we got our hands full in the passing game and the running game. It's a situation where they basically say, we're going to line up and beat you. They believe in their athletes on defense."