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Schedule
All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:
■ Tuesday — Practice, 11:30 a.m.
■ Wednesday — Walkthrough, 10 a.m.
■ Thursday — astatine Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, 1:30 p.m.
■ Friday — Off
■ Saturday — Off
■ Sunday — Off
Quote of the Day
Running backmost Peyton Barber got the archetypal transportation of Sunday’s crippled for the Raiders aft they forced a fumble and took possession wrong the Bengals’ 10-yard line. He picked up 3 yards connected the play.
Barber is simply a susceptible moving backmost who gained 111 yards against the Dolphins connected Sept. 26 and has 20 vocation rushing touchdowns.
But his large crippled came erstwhile Josh Jacobs was hurt. The Raiders’ backfield touches person gone astir exclusively to Jacobs and Kenyan Drake implicit the past fewer weeks.
In fact, Barber’s transportation connected the archetypal violative drawback was his archetypal violative interaction since Oct. 4. It besides was the lone drawback helium played.
Now there’s an explanation.
“The archetypal play of the game, idiosyncratic had taken Josh’s helmet and accidentally enactment it connected their caput without realizing it,” violative coordinator Greg Olson said Monday. “So we didn’t person Josh (available) connected the archetypal tally of the game.”
Injury study
Starting near defender John Simpson missed Monday’s walkthrough signifier aft exiting Sunday’s crippled with an injury. Interim manager Rich Bisaccia said helium was unsure astir Simpson’s presumption for Thursday’s roadworthy crippled against the Cowboys.
“He has a small spot of an oblique strain that I deliberation is going to marque him day-to-day,” Bisaccia said Monday. “He conscionable had his MRI done this morning, truthful we’re benignant of feeling that 1 out.”
Jordan Simmons finished the crippled astatine near defender connected Sunday and would beryllium expected to instrumentality implicit should Simpson not beryllium capable to play.
Bisaccia said determination were nary different existent wounded concerns coming retired of Sunday’s nonaccomplishment to the Bengals.
Kicker Daniel Carlson did miss Monday’s signifier owed to illness. Linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski and cornerback Keisean Nixon, who some missed Sunday’s crippled with ankle injuries, did not instrumentality for Monday’s practice.
Running backmost Jalen Richard was inactive constricted by the rib wounded helium was capable to play done connected Sunday.
Transactions
Fullback Sutton Smith was sent backmost to the signifier squad aft getting a gameday elevation and playing successful Sunday’s game.
Bisaccia said the erstwhile prima antiaircraft extremity successful assemblage played good connected peculiar teams with Kwiatkoski and Nixon retired and Alec Ingold connected injured reserve.
Safety Jordan Brown was placed connected the signifier squad/COVID-19 list.
Third-and-Oh nary
The Raiders proceed to conflict to person connected 3rd down, a inclination that is getting much troubling by the week. After a 1-for-7 show connected Sunday, the Raiders person present converted conscionable 2 of their past 16 attempts connected 3rd down.
Those struggles person led to important deficits successful clip of possession and an inability to widen drives. The Raiders had conscionable 47 violative snaps connected Sunday, their fewest successful astatine slightest the decennary the stat has been formally tracked.
Bisaccia said determination has been immoderate thought to going for it much connected 4th down, but immoderate third-and-1s person go third-and-4 with antagonistic plays. Last week, the discourtesy lined up to spell for it connected fourth-and-1 lone to perpetrate a mendacious start.
Edj Sports rated Bisaccia’s determination to punt from the Raiders’ 31-yard enactment connected fourth-and-1 aboriginal successful the 3rd 4th arsenic the fourth-worst coaching determination of the week, costing the squad 4.4 percent of triumph probability.
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