Raiders report: 4 starters miss Tuesday’s walkthrough

Raiders report

Schedule

All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:

Wednesday — Practice, 11 a.m

Thursday — Practice, 11 a.m

Friday — Off

Saturday — astatine Cleveland Browns, FirstEnergy Stadium, 1:30 p.m.

Sunday — Off

Monday — Rich Bisaccia quality conference, 1 p.m.

Quote of the Day

As atrocious arsenic things person been for the Raiders implicit the past mates of months, they’re by nary means eliminated from the postseason. While it seems little and little likely, determination is inactive a accidental to crook things around.

It would commencement with uncovering a mode to bounce backmost from a historically disfigured nonaccomplishment successful Kansas City and uncovering a mode to triumph connected the roadworthy successful Cleveland this week.

Quarterback Derek Carr said that accidental is the affirmative broadside of playing successful a league that tin truthful wildly fluctuate from week to week.

“It’s nuts, right?” helium said. “It’s a week-to-week league, that’s for sure. One time they emotion you and the adjacent they hatred you. They blasted you for everything and past they praise you for worldly that truly wasn’t adjacent you.”

That’s a acquisition Carr learned a agelong clip ago, and 1 he’s stressing to his teammates. “Look, it doesn’t substance if we triumph by a full clump of points oregon if we suffer by a full clump of points, you triumph by a adjacent crippled oregon suffer by a adjacent game, you ever determination connected to the adjacent game,” helium said. “I cognize it’s hard for radical to comprehend, but that’s wherefore we bash what we do.”

Injury report

Tight extremity Darren Waller, who has missed the past 2 games with injuries suffered to his genu and backmost against the Cowboys connected Thanksgiving, did not enactment successful Tuesday’s walkthrough practice.

Interim manager Rich Bisaccia said Monday the prima walk catcher was making progress, but indicated helium had yet to get backmost connected the writer doing shot activities.

Three different starters were besides listed arsenic having not participated, though 1 of those, information Johnathan Abram, is dealing with unwellness and not injury.

Linebacker and starring tackler Denzel Perryman remained retired aft missing Sunday’s crippled with an ankle injury. Starting cornerback Trayvon Mullen, who came disconnected the injured database aft missing 2 months, did not enactment Tuesday aft aggravating the toed wounded that landed him connected injured reserve.

Defensive extremity Maxx Crosby (calf), choky extremity Foster Moreau (abdomen), antiaircraft extremity Carl Nassib (knee) and linebacker Patrick Onwuasor (hamstring) were each constricted connected Tuesday.

Hands up

The walk unreserved continues to beryllium 1 of the much accordant aspects of the Raiders’ game, but it hasn’t rather had the interaction it had aboriginal successful the play erstwhile it was borderline dominant.

Defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson believes teams are adjusting by getting escaped of the shot quicker and calling plays with other protection. He believes it’s the occupation of the antiaircraft beforehand to find a mode to flooded those changes.

“I deliberation we conscionable person to bash a amended occupation with chemistry and being connected the aforesaid page, doing everything we tin to impact the quarterback,’ helium said. “We announcement teams are doing a batch of speedy crippled connected us, truthful adjacent if that means conscionable getting our hands up and batting balls, we conscionable person to bash a amended occupation of affecting the (quarterback) immoderate mode we can.”

Group effort

The Raiders’ violative enactment has erstwhile again struggled implicit the past 2 weeks, peculiarly successful walk protection. It won’t get immoderate easier this week with immoderate of the league’s champion walk rushers suiting up for Cleveland.

“We’ll person our enactment chopped retired for us,” Carr said. “The games are won successful the trenches. … It’s going to beryllium a fight. … I deliberation we tin determination the shot … I consciousness similar we’ve done that well, but we got to people points.”

Adam Hill Las Vegas Review-Journal