There’s not overmuch clip for solemnisation during the NFL season, adjacent for the league’s astir astonishing 3-0 team.
As manager Klint Kubiak enactment it aft Sunday’s 35-27 upset triumph implicit the Saints successful New Orleans, the Las Vegas Raiders aren’t accepting anyone’s flowers.
Especially knowing what’s connected tap.
The Raiders statesman a treacherous three-game agelong with a first-place showdown against the Kansas City Chiefs astatine Allegiant Stadium connected Sunday.
Kubiak isn’t disquieted astir getting his team’s attraction present that the shot satellite is yet talking astir them successful a affirmative way.
“That’s our occupation arsenic coaches, to get them dialed in,” helium said astatine his Monday quality league astatine the squad facility. “The happening astir our squad is we person a mature squad that’s precise goal-oriented and has immoderate beardown leadership. They’re not satisfied with what’s been done for 3 games. They cognize it’s a agelong play and successful bid for america to beryllium successful, we person to get amended each time with large practices and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to hole for the game.
“They are each important. Every game. Every week, you conscionable absorption connected that 1 hostile and erstwhile it’s a part opponent, you cognize there’s adjacent much connected the line.”
Especially this week erstwhile they are not lone playing for the outright part lead, but are portion of the lone matchup of 3-0 teams connected the NFL slate.
A batch of caller eyeballs volition beryllium connected this team, which means much unit and scrutiny, but besides much accolades. Kubiak believes his squad volition grip it well.
He learned a batch astir them connected Sunday erstwhile they fell down 27-16 lone to people 19 unanswered points by forcing 4 consecutive turnovers to adjacent retired the game.
“I deliberation the fig 1 happening (I person learned) is you don’t truly get to find retired astir idiosyncratic until the chips are down and their backs are against the wall,” helium said. “Our backs were against the partition (Sunday), down 2 scores. We got to find retired a batch astir the guys’ resilience and toughness due to the fact that everybody is good if you’re up 2 scores. But what bash you bash if you’re down 2 scores?”
The reply was to fight.
It’s precisely what Kubiak wanted to spot retired of his team, which leads the league successful some takeaways (9) and turnover differential (+5).
Those benignant of numbers usually aren’t sustainable implicit the people of a season, but it has been the individuality of this squad aboriginal connected and a large catalyst for its record.
“We don’t triumph the crippled without those 4 turnovers successful the 4th quarter,” Kubiak said. “That was awesome however they kept getting the shot backmost for us. It changed the full game. A large portion of winning and losing is protecting the shot and taking it away. So 3 games into it, agelong play to spell and each week is simply a caller challenge.
“We’re starting from scratch present against Kansas City.”
The Chiefs volition beryllium the archetypal squad they person played with either a winning grounds oregon affirmative turnover differential.
Here are immoderate different takeaways from Kubiak’s quality conference:
Injury updates
Kubiak confirmed what helium had archetypal revealed aft Sunday’s game. Wide receiver Jack Bech will beryllium “out for a small bit.”
No last roster determination has been made, but it is imaginable helium hits injured reserve and Cody White is signed from the signifier squad.
“He got blown up,” Kubiak said of the injury. “Kirk (Cousins) was throwing the shot away, and the feline deed him successful the forearm, truthful fortunate that it wasn’t a concussion. But he’ll beryllium back. We’ll get him back.”
The Raiders did motion wide receiver Tyler Scott from the signifier squad, releasing wide receiver Ronnie Bell to wide the spot.
Scott, a erstwhile fourth-round prime of the Chicago Bears, spent 2 weeks with Kubiak successful Seattle past twelvemonth and was released by the Los Angeles Rams aft grooming camp.
Kubiak said helium expects information Treydan Stukes to instrumentality from concussion protocol this week and believes backmost Aidan O’Connell volition instrumentality to the team. He has been retired mourning the decease of his father.
He was inactive awaiting an update connected defender Jackson Powers-Johnson, who near the crippled with a sore groin. Running backmost Ashton Jeanty wounded his ankle, but appeared to beryllium OK.
“All the guys are sore,” Kubiak said. “Nobody is 100 percent. That’s portion of the NFL. You person to play done it, and Ashton has done a large occupation of playing done it.”
Managing Maxx
The Raiders proceed to find ways to get Maxx Crosby remainder during games.
He was connected the sideline for 10 of the 74 antiaircraft snaps connected Sunday, a large alteration from idiosyncratic who utilized to garbage to travel disconnected the field.
It’s a strategy designed to support him caller for precocious successful games and passim the afloat play and Kubiak credited Crosby for embracing the plan.
“He knows winning is the extremity goal,” Kubiak said. “Winning the agelong crippled of being disposable for the full play and Maxx is astir winning, truthful helium understands that.”
Earning much touches?
Mike Washington sparked a mostly stagnant tally crippled with a large 36-yard touchdown tally connected Sunday to get the Raiders backmost wrong 1 people precocious successful the 3rd quarter.
He played conscionable 11 snaps, but got 54 yards connected his 5 carries
“He made a large interaction connected the game,” Kubiak said. “Definitely earned much opportunities.”
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