Raiders report: Assistant coach doesn’t make trip to Dallas

Schedule

All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:

■ Thursday — astatine Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, 1:30 p.m.

■ Friday — Off

■ Saturday — Off

■ Sunday — Off

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

■ Tuesday — Off

■ Wednesday — Practice, 11 a.m.

■ Thursday, Dec. 2 — Practice, 11 a.m.

Quote of the day

Raiders’ interim manager Rich Bisaccia doesn’t program connected having a due Thanksgiving meal this play arsenic helium takes his squad connected a enactment travel to play the Cowboys connected Thursday.

“We’ll beryllium traveling,” helium said earlier boarding a level connected Wednesday. “I conscionable look guardant to playing a bully shot crippled and eating a Crustable connected the level home.”

Bisaccia was astir surely referring to Smucker’s Uncrustables, a fashionable snack successful the Raiders’ locker room.

The peanut food and jelly assortment is the astir fashionable for the brand, but they bash besides marketplace a turkey roll-up sandwich.

Bon appetit.

Injury report

Linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski and cornerback Keisean Nixon volition some miss Thursday’s crippled against the Cowboys with ankle injuries.

Both players besides missed Sunday’s nonaccomplishment to the Bengals. Their absences were peculiarly felt connected peculiar teams.

Starting near defender John Simpson is questionable for Thursday with an oblique wounded that caused him to miss the 2nd fractional Sunday. “He moved astir beauteous bully retired determination (Wednesday), truthful we’ll marque a game-day determination to immoderate grade connected that,” Bisaccia said.

Jordan Simmons would apt commencement successful Simpson’s spot if helium can’t play.

On the different side, wide receiver CeeDee Lamb returned to signifier connected Wednesday and has a accidental to play for the Cowboys connected Thursday should helium wide concussion protocol.

Starting tackle Tyron Smith got successful a 2nd consecutive afloat league and is expected to play, but information Donovan Wilson was placed connected injured reserve with enarthrosis and thorax injuries.

LB manager retired Thursday

Linebackers manager Richard Smith did not question with the squad connected Wednesday owed to COVID-19 protocols, the squad announced. His duties volition beryllium absorbed by the remainder of the antiaircraft coaching staff.

No must-wins

The Raiders person mislaid 3 consecutive games to autumn from morganatic contender successful the AFC playoff pursuit to being successful information of falling retired of contention.

They request to commencement winning games again soon to debar different second-half collapse, but Bisaccia declined to enactment immoderate further accent connected Thursday’s result.

“I don’t judge successful must-win games,” helium said. “I judge each crippled is truly important due to the fact that it’s the adjacent crippled we play. That’s benignant of however we’ve approached each the games this year, and it’s however we’ve approached this week’s game. The quality successful this crippled is it’s a accelerated turnaround. You get done playing connected Sunday, the adjacent happening you cognize you travel to enactment connected Monday and you’re truly going connected to the adjacent game.”

Thanksgiving Football

Several Raiders person past ties to the Cowboys and person been a portion of Thanksgiving games astatine AT&T Stadium, including Bisaccia and antiaircraft enactment manager Rod Marinelli.

“What a large venue. To spell into Dallas and play successful the prime-time slot astatine 4:30 p.m. connected Thanksgiving Day is 1 of those things we imagination astir arsenic kids and young radical playing successful the backyard,” said Bisaccia, who coached with the Cowboys from 2013 to 2017. “I retrieve increasing up and watching the Thanksgiving Day games with Clint Longley and Golden Richards and guys similar that. So present to spell play successful this peculiar game, successful this venue down there, our squad I deliberation is precise excited astir it.”

Adam Hill Review-Journal