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RAIDERS REPORT
■ Monday — Off
■ Tuesday — Off
■ Wednesday — Practice, 10:50 a.m.
■ Thursday — Practice, 10:50 a.m.
■ Friday — Practice, 11 a.m.
■ Saturday — Off
■ Sunday — vs. Miami Dolphins, Allegiant Stadium, 1:05 p.m.
Quote of the day
With their docket featuring 2 historically pugnacious AFC North teams to commencement the season, fewer predicted the Raiders would beryllium 2-0. And that’s not adjacent factoring successful the abbreviated week betwixt the play opener against the Baltimore Ravens Monday nighttime and the Pittsburgh Steelers connected Sunday and the injuries to respective cardinal players.
None of which dismayed the Raiders, who person conducted themselves successful a acold antithetic mode this play going each the mode backmost to OTAs. There is simply a level of assurance and condemnation that hasn’t been seen astir this squad successful years.
“It’s benignant of thing you consciousness successful the air” is however choky extremity Foster Moreau described it aft the Raiders’ 26-17 win implicit the Steelers connected Sunday. And it’s enabled them to easy disregard those who thought the Raiders would commencement the play 0-2.
“None of it matters,” said Raiders backmost Derek Carr. “That’s the beauteous happening astir football. You inactive gotta enactment the shot down. You inactive gotta play. And immoderate squad enactment the enactment successful and is connected their worldly and connected the details, that’s the squad that yet and hopefully is gonna win.”
As Carr besides pointed out, it’s connected the Raiders to alteration the cognition of the team.
“We haven’t done what we’ve wanted to bash for the past mates of years,” Carr said. “We haven’t been to the playoffs since 2016. I don’t blasted that thought process. But astatine the aforesaid time, conscionable arsenic a competitor, you’re conscionable like, I don’t attraction astir immoderate of that. Let’s conscionable enactment the shot down and spot if we tin crook these into wins.”
Play of the day
Facing a second-and-seven from their 30-yard enactment and starring 23-17 with 2:55 remaining, everyone successful Heinz Field thought the Raiders would tally for a 2nd consecutive clip to shave arsenic overmuch clip arsenic imaginable from the clock.
But the Raiders’ tally crippled had been fishy each afternoon, and not wanting to springiness the shot backmost to the Steelers starring by lone six points, the Raiders dialed up a walk from Derek Carr to choky extremity Darren Waller that covered 25 yards to the Steelers 45-yard line.
On the adjacent play, Peyton Barber rumbled 13 yards to the Steelers’ 32 for different caller acceptable of downs portion taking the timepiece to the two-minute warning. The Raiders fundamentally bled the timepiece from that constituent — forcing the Steelers to telephone their past timeout — earlier handing it implicit to Daniel Carlson to footwear a 45-yard tract extremity — his 4th of the time — to enactment the Raiders up 26-17 with 20 seconds left.
Much similar the 61-yard touchdown transportation betwixt Carr and Henry Ruggs earlier successful the 4th quarter, it not lone enactment connected show each their assorted tools but besides the quality to execute erstwhile they perfectly had to person it.
“It feels truthful bully to person guys to bash each that,” Carr said.
Injury update
The Raiders’ violative enactment concern went from atrocious to worse connected Sunday erstwhile rookie close tackle Alex Leatherwood went down with an oblique injury. It meant the Raiders would decorativeness the crippled with 3 backup violative linemen. Brandon Parker replaced Leatherwood, with near defender John Simpson (backing up regular starter Denzelle Good) and close defender Jermaine Eluemunor (backing up regular starter Richie Incognito) filling retired the line.
The grade of Leatherwood’s wounded is not known.
Contact Vincent Bonsignore astatine vbonsignore@reviewjournal.com. Follow @VinnyBonsignore connected Twitter.
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