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Raiders report
Schedule
All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:
Friday — Practice, 11 a.m.
Saturday — Off
Sunday — astatine Denver Broncos, Empower Field, 1:25 p.m.
Quote of the day
Defensive coordinator Gus Bradley is successful his archetypal play with the Raiders and truthful doesn’t person arsenic heavy of idiosyncratic ties to Jon Gruden arsenic astir of the remainder of the coaching staff.
But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a hard week for him and his antiaircraft assistants and players.
Bradley said helium had been preparing for questions astir his feelings earlier gathering with the media Thursday for the archetypal clip since Gruden’s resignation amid the leaked emails scandal.
“Heartache,” helium said of the champion connection to picture his mood. “I cognize (Steelers coach) Mike Tomlin, and I saw helium said thing astir saddened, and I deliberation possibly that’s the champion connection to picture it. You’re saddened for everybody. The organization, for Coach (Gruden), for each the radical involved.
“But astatine the aforesaid time, I deliberation I was raised to ever judge thing bully is astir to happen, and sometimes that’s a situation successful a week similar this, but that’s what we believe.”
Injury report
Starting moving backmost Josh Jacobs missed Thursday’s signifier due to the fact that of a non-COVID illness. He was a afloat subordinate Wednesday.
Defensive extremity Carl Nassib returned to signifier Thursday aft taking a time disconnected to process the events that led to Gruden’s resignation.
Nassib is the lone openly cheery existent subordinate successful the NFL, and immoderate of the connection Gruden utilized was denigrating to homosexuals.
Bradley said Nassib was feeling better.
“He’s great,” Bradley said. “He’s been a large teammate, and I deliberation things similar this impact radical differently, and we recognize that portion of it. But large communicator, and it was large to person him back. Whenever helium comes back, helium provides a small foodstuff for us, and truthful helium was large successful meetings. He’s each caught up and acceptable to go.”
Defensive extremity Yannick Ngakoue got successful a constricted league aft taking Wednesday disconnected to negociate reps. Tight extremity Darren Waller was a afloat subordinate aft besides taking a remainder time Wednesday.
Defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson did not signifier aft getting successful constricted enactment Wednesday due to the fact that of a backmost injury. Johnathan Hankins remained retired with a hep injury. Johnathan Abram was downgraded to constricted with enarthrosis and calf injuries.
Linebacker Cory Littleton was upgraded to a afloat league with his enarthrosis injury.
Moving connected up
Typically, the players’ realm astatine the squad installation is the archetypal floor. That’s wherever the signifier fields are, arsenic good arsenic the locker room, value room, lounge, instrumentality rooms and gathering spaces.
The coaches are mostly upstairs successful their offices erstwhile they aren’t with the players.
Offensive coordinator Greg Olson said determination has been acold much mingling this week arsenic everyone successful the enactment tries to header with the emotions of 1 of the astir turbulent stretches successful franchise history.
“There person been much players who person wandered up the stairway that conscionable request a accidental to speech to somebody,” Olson said. “And again, I can’t accidental capable astir the quality of players that we person established connected this squad successful presumption of that, being capable to openly pass and explicit their feelings and explicit their emotions. That has been portion of this week arsenic well. I wouldn’t telephone it a distraction. It’s life, and truthful galore radical are saddened by the symptom that it’s caused truthful galore antithetic people, but you conscionable support moving on.”
Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected Twitter.
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