PRO FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT : RAIDERS : All They Know Is, Win and They’re In

The Raiders know what they have to do to wind up in the playoffs: beat or tie the Kansas City Chiefs Saturday at the Coliseum or hope the New England Patriots lose to the Bears in Chicago.

What the Raiders don’t know is where they’ll play.

There are four possibilities for Saturday or Sunday of New Year’s weekend--a home game at the Coliseum against the Cleveland Browns, or a road game at Cleveland, Miami or San Diego.

Here’s what has to happen:

--To get home-field advantage for the first round of the playoffs, the Raiders must beat the Chiefs and the Browns must lose to the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday. Both the Raiders and Browns would finish 10-6 and the Raiders would get the nod because of a better record among common opponents, 6-3 to 3-5.

--If both the Raiders and Browns win, Cleveland finishes 11-5 and gets home field for the game.

--If the Raiders and Patriots both lose, and the Miami Dolphins and San Diego Chargers both win or both lose, the Raiders would go to Miami. That’s because the Dolphins would win the AFC East, but would have the worst record among AFC division winners, necessitating a home game the first weekend of the playoffs against the Raiders, who would be the lowest ranked AFC wild-card team.

--If the Raiders, Patriots and Chargers lose and the Dolphins win, San Diego loses a tiebreaker to Miami, making the Chargers the lowest-ranked AFC division winner, meaning San Diego would play host to the Raiders.

Got all that?

Raider coach Art Shell doesn’t even want to hear about it.

“We’ll determine our fate on Saturday,” he said. “If we win, we’re in. I haven’t studied that other stuff.”

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Safety Eddie Anderson, who missed Sunday’s game against the Seahawks because of a groin pull, is improved, Shell said. “Hopefully, he’ll be ready to go,” Shell said.

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“I didn’t connect, but I threw the blow,” Raider offensive lineman Robert Jenkins said of the punch that got him ejected Sunday. “That’s wrong to do that. We are supposed to be men, professionals, especially when you have a nationwide game and you have little kids watching. I’m very embarrassed. Sometimes that happens, but I can tell you that it will never happen again, at least to me.”