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By Monte Poole
Oakland Tribune columnist

LIKE COAL miners and infantrymen, the Raiders are accustomed to carrying on regardless of conditions. They shrug or sigh or laugh cryptically, as if to say complaining is pointless.

They rarely get agitated with chaos or the lack of information. They have come to understand that disorder and darkness come with the territory, come with being a Raider.

Even at times like now, as the air thickens with uncertainty, players have to wait for the coaches, who have to wait for the owner, who moves at a pace of his own choosing.

Put another way, a lot of folks at team headquarters are feeling a little bit of the relative isolation wide receiver Javon Walker has felt all season.

The players practiced Wednesday, and they'll do so again today before the bye week schedule allows them the weekend off. There was little evident anxiety despite knowing that when they return Monday, they have no idea who will greet them in the role of head coach.

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