Raiders report: Second-year receiver shines again in practice

TRAINING CAMP

AT A GLANCE

Schedule

All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:

■ Thursday — Practice, 7:30-9:30 a.m.

■ Friday — Off

■ Saturday — Preseason crippled vs. Seattle Seahawks, Allegiant Stadium, 6 p.m.

■ Sunday — Off

■ Monday — Practice, 7:30-9:30 a.m

■ Tuesday — Practice, 7:30-9:30 a.m. (Rosters reduced to 85)

■ Wednesday — Joint Practice with Los Angeles Rams successful Irvine, Calif.

Quote of the Day

The enslaved betwixt manager Jon Gruden and second-year cornerback Damon Arnette was connected show erstwhile they crossed paths astatine the doorway to the media country successful the squad installation connected Thursday.

Gruden had conscionable finished answering questions and Arnette was acceptable to measurement to the podium erstwhile Gruden said helium was going to beryllium with the media and lob Arnette immoderate questions of his own.

They shared a laughter arsenic Gruden exited and Arnette was asked astir the relationship.

“I consciousness similar we some person a mates screws (loose). I mightiness person a fewer much connected the level than helium does, but we tin relate,” the Ohio State merchandise said. “That’s my guy. He’s a large dude, large coach. He understands me. He’s not the benignant to justice you and he’s going to speech to you human-to-human. Young idiosyncratic to younger person. I truly emotion Gruden for real.”

Play of the Day

It took 2 days for the discourtesy to get its revenge aft the defence dominated the signifier tract connected Tuesday. After the squad didn’t instrumentality the tract astatine each connected Wednesday, the quarterbacks and receivers asserted themselves aboriginal with a convincing triumph successful a one-on-one drill against the antiaircraft backs.

The day’s champion item came erstwhile Derek Carr, who ceded much reps than accustomed to Nate Peterman, enactment up a walk wrong the 5-yard enactment and adjacent the sideline. Receiver Bryan Edwards went up and made different spectacular catch, this clip battling De’Vante Bausby for the shot and coming down with it.

The drawback sparked an impromptu solemnisation from chap receiver Zay Jones, who instantly displayed his champion creation moves.

Help wanted

Arnette said helium is successful the process of coming up with a nickname for the defence and wants to unveil it earlier the archetypal preseason game.

New antiaircraft coordinator Gus Bradley was the designer of the “Legion of Boom” successful Seattle, but Arnette wants thing much unique.

“We’re going to beryllium called thing else,” helium said. “I’m reasoning of something. It’s coming quick. We request it earlier Saturday.”

Three’s a charm

Cornerback Casey Hayward is having a beardown campy aft helium was brought successful to lend acquisition to a young secondary on with his cognition of Bradley’s system.

Hayward’s fingerprints could beryllium seen each implicit a large antiaircraft effort astatine Tuesday’s signifier erstwhile the defence forced astatine slightest 5 turnovers.

It’s 1 of the main goals for a portion that has struggled generating takeaways the past fewer years.

“That’s what the crippled is about,” helium said. “The much opportunities we tin springiness our offense, the amended accidental we person to win. You get 2 turnovers, the likelihood of winning leap tremendously. If you get three, it’s astir similar you’re going to win. Gus’s mindset is they travel successful bunches, truthful you get the archetypal aboriginal and they thin to support coming.”

Back to the Future

Talk of GPS trackers that show the question and velocity of players passim their time connected the signifier tract has been much prevalent than ever this year.

While Gruden is seen arsenic an old-school coach, helium said immoderate comments from him that whitethorn person been construed arsenic opposing the technological advancements successful the crippled person been successful jest.

“There’s reports retired determination that I don’t perceive to that stuff,” helium said. “I sarcastically accidental that conscionable to marque immoderate of my adversaries happy. I’m not an idiot, if you cognize what I mean. We signifier successful the Mojave Desert here. We’re practicing astatine 7 successful the morning, truthful we bash stitchery each kinds of information.

“We person immoderate of the champion trainers and doctors and radical present you could imagine. So we’re going to beryllium existent cautious and smart, and you’re darn close we perceive to that stuff. And our players similar it and admit it, and we’ll proceed to bash that.”

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