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Almost set for their Monday Night Football showdown against the Atlanta Falcons, their second primetime game this season, are the Las Vegas Raiders.

Regretfully, the Raiders are going to be on primetime maybe being defeated by the Falcons, a team striving to make the playoffs out of their division, in a fight with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who just defeated the Raiders last week.

For the Raiders, this week offers a rather different narrative, though. We also have to discuss some of the interesting events occurring with this team as they might very possibly lose the remaining games on their schedule. One of them is the narrative of Desmond Ridder, a quarterback the Raiders signed off of the Arizona Cardinals practice squad and a former Falcons starter.

Aidan O’Connell might be out this week against the Falcons; Ridder could get his first start against his previous team since he was last with the Falcons.

Though he hasn’t started a game yet, Ridder has shown up in a couple Raiders games this year. He let all the emotions come out when asked about the possible opportunity earlier this week.

“God works in enigmatic ways,” Ridder informed reporters. “Whether I play, whether I don’t play, whenever that decision is made, like I have said every week I am excited and blessed to have the chance to be able to go out there and step out on the field and be able to go do and play the game that I love, the game that I grew up playing, the game that I have put a lot of time, work, sweat and tears into. Therefore, it makes no difference who it is against—against the Falcons or another. It’s an exciting time any chance I have to go out and present my abilities.

Though it’s not guaranteed, Aidan O’Connell is “fighting to play” on Monday Night Football. Last week he was taken off the field with an air cast on his knee. He seemed agitated and held his hands over his face as though he suffered a season-ending injury. Believing O’Connell will be playing on Monday is quite difficult.

And why not try Ridder and see what he has? O’Connell wasn’t performing particularly well even last week, before he was injured. Who knows, Ridder might be something the Raiders are interested in hanging around for some time? The Raiders will meet the Jacksonville Jaguars following this game; they are both fighting for the poorest record in the league by the season’s finish.