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Raiders report
Schedule
All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:
Saturday — Off
Sunday — astatine Kansas City Chiefs, Arrowhead Stadium, 10 a.m.
Quote of the day
It was warmer successful Kansas City, Missouri, connected Friday than successful Las Vegas, a rarity successful December.
The forecast calls for sunny skies and temperatures successful the mid-50s with a mean breeze for Sunday’s game.
That’s a beauteous bully interruption successful a roadworthy crippled the Raiders astir surely had circled arsenic a upwind disaster.
“We’re proceeding we’re going to person a sunny time with conscionable a small spot of breeze, and if we tin spell to Kansas City and it’s not snowing oregon minus 34 degrees, we’re stealing a small spot successful the period of December,” interim manager Rich Bisaccia said. “I spent a batch of clip retired determination successful the Dakotas and Kansas and each that playing ball. We’re hoping to person a large time retired there.”
The Raiders mightiness not get arsenic fortunate adjacent week with a sojourn to Cleveland and the unpredictable upwind connected the shores of Lake Erie.
That’s wherefore the chilly, breezy greeting successful Henderson connected Friday mightiness person been beneficial for the squad astatine practice.
“The bully happening for america contiguous is determination was a small chill successful the aerial and a small breeze retired there, which is bully for A.J. (Cole) and Daniel (Carlson) to punt and footwear successful this upwind contiguous and bully for Derek (Carr) and Marcus (Mariota) to propulsion the shot successful the wind,” Bisaccia said. “It’s besides bully for our antiaircraft backs to wage attraction to however the shot moves successful that.”
Injury report
Tight extremity Darren Waller was ruled retired for Sunday, the 2nd consecutive crippled helium volition miss with genu and backmost issues that forced him to miss the 2nd fractional of a win implicit the Cowboys connected Thanksgiving Day.
Bisaccia declined to connection a warrant that Waller would beryllium acceptable to play astatine Cleveland. He wanted to get a clearer representation from squad doctors.
“I cognize he’s progressed this week,” Bisaccia said. “It was a drastic progression aft the precise archetypal day, and present he’s benignant of gone from 1 excavation to the different pool. We’ll effort to enactment our mode to hopefully get him connected the writer present successful the adjacent fewer days, but hopefully I’ll person a amended reply for you aboriginal adjacent week.”
Defensive extremity Carl Nassib (knee) and linebacker Patrick Onwuasor (hamstring) besides volition miss Sunday’s game. Linebacker Denzel Perryman is doubtful with an ankle injury.
Defensive tackle Darius Philon and cornerback Trayvon Mullen stay connected injured reserve, but some players could beryllium activated earlier Sunday’s game.
Incognito improbable to return
Projected starting near defender Richie Incognito has missed the full play with a calf wounded and doesn’t look adjacent to a instrumentality from injured reserve.
Bisaccia each but ruled Incognito retired for the remainder of the season.
“I’d accidental it’s improbable (he plays again this season) astatine this peculiar clip due to the fact that of the aggregate setbacks he’s had,” Bisaccia said. “But I’d hatred to regularisation Richie retired astatine this constituent successful his vocation and this constituent wherever we’re at. Hopefully we person a batch of shot near to play.”
Mourning Thomas
The Raiders were mourning the decease of erstwhile NFL receiver Demaryius Thomas on with the remainder of the shot satellite Friday. The 33-year-old was recovered dormant Thursday astatine his Georgia home.
“It’s truly sad,” Bisaccia said. “We talked astir it this greeting successful the squad meeting. We person guys successful determination that played against him and guys that cognize him. Our guys had immoderate emotions astir it.”
Adam Hill Las Vegas Review-Journal
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