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Raiders report
Schedule
All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:
Tuesday — Off
Wednesday — Practice, 11 a.m.
Thursday — Practice, 11 a.m.
Friday — Practice, 11 a.m.
Dec. 11 — Off
Dec. 12 — astatine Kansas City Chiefs, Arrowhead Stadium, 10 a.m.
Quote of the Day
The Raiders got a accidental to commencement their mentation for the Chiefs astir instantly aft leaving the tract connected Sunday astatine Allegiant Stadium.
Kansas City hosted Denver successful a prime-time game, giving the players and coaching unit an accidental to bash a small unrecorded scouting.
Interim manager Rich Bisaccia said helium wasn’t capable to tune successful until precocious successful the contest, but planned to ticker the movie connected Monday.
“It looked similar a hard-fought crippled by 2 teams that are playing truly good connected defense. Both to immoderate grade struggled a small spot connected the violative broadside of the ball, which we tin place with arsenic we’re sitting here,” helium said. “So, we’ll spot much of what the portion looks similar arsenic we get going during the week.”
Injury report
Bisaccia is present classifying choky extremity Darren Waller arsenic “day-to-day” aft helium was listed arsenic “week-to-week” past week.
He confirmed the terminology was intentional and should beryllium considered an betterment aft Waller didn’t signifier past week and missed Sunday’s crippled against Washington.
“He’s dealing with 2 things, the genu and the oblique oregon the rib, whichever 1 it is, and helium got continually a small spot amended toward the extremity of the week,” Bisaccia said. “That’s benignant of wherefore we kept him successful the day-to-day, and past visiting with Chris (Cortez) today, our trainer, aforesaid deal. I conscionable saw Waller a small spot ago. I deliberation he’ll get hopefully going possibly retired of the excavation present successful a fewer days oregon possibly adjacent tomorrow.”
The quality was acold much ominous for moving backmost Kenyan Drake, who volition person season-ending country connected his close ankle aft breaking it aboriginal successful Sunday’s games.
“He is going to request surgery,” Bisaccia said. “He’ll beryllium leaving successful a fewer days, I deliberation going to Birmingham (Alabama) to instrumentality attraction of his ankle.”
Linebackers Patrick Onuasor (hamstring), Denzel Perryman (ankle), Cory Littleton (stinger) and Nick Kwiatkoski (ankle) volition each beryllium considered day-to-day. Defensive extremity Carl Nassib (knee) earned the aforesaid tag.
Bisaccia added helium hopes to person antiaircraft tackle Darius Philon backmost astatine signifier this week and wants to spot cornerback Trayvon Mullen ramp up his enactment up of a imaginable instrumentality to the lineup.
Youth movement
This year’s third-round picks Malcolm Koonce and Divine Deablo some saw their astir extended enactment of the play and made an interaction for the Raiders connected Sunday.
Koonce, a antiaircraft extremity from Buffalo, was connected the tract for the archetypal clip and recorded a sack connected 1 of his 7 antiaircraft snaps.
Former Virginia Tech standout Deablo expanded connected the peculiar teams relation helium has played each play and was connected the tract for 38 antiaircraft plays. He had played conscionable 26 each play earlier Sunday’s game.
“We deliberation Divine’s been coming connected successful signifier each the clip and getting a batch much reps surely astatine the volition linebacker,” Bisaccia said. “We thought helium did a bully job, and helium kept his relation connected (special) teams arsenic well. It was bully to spot Malcolm yet get up determination and person a accidental to marque a play … We’ll spot what injuries bash for america arsenic we spell done the adjacent fewer days successful practice. See who we extremity up dressing for america successful the game.”
Koonce’s accidental came due to the fact that Nassib didn’t play portion respective injuries astatine linebacker opened the doorway for Deablo.
“You saw immoderate of the velocity that (Koonce) has,” Bisaccia said. “You saw immoderate of the detonation that helium has. If you looked astatine the punt unreserved tape, helium had a truly bully unreserved 1 time. So, we’re hoping this clip of twelvemonth those guys are starting to play a small spot more.”
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