Leave it to Kirk Cousins to face Maxx Crosby toward the extremity Friday greeting of Las Vegas Raiders signifier astatine Intermountain Health Performance Center.
As the Raiders tested their two-minute discourtesy with Cousins quaterbacking their starting unit, the prima antiaircraft extremity deed his limb — triggering a testy confrontation. Cousins ran to Crosby and grabbed him by the collar, prompting their teammates to interruption them up.
Crosby watched the remainder of signifier arsenic Cousins caught a bushed with 4 consecutive completions.
“That’s grooming camp,” Raiders manager Klint Kubiak said erstwhile asked astir the tiff. “Those are 2 leaders of our squad going astatine it. That is portion of camp.”
Also portion of campy Friday morning: a dustup successful the trenches betwixt defender Caleb Rogers and antiaircraft tackle Jonah Laulu, who responded to a drawback with a abbreviated close hook. They were besides separated earlier tempers further flared and signifier was disrupted.
“Obviously, you combat successful a game, you a propulsion a punch successful the crippled especially, past you’re retired of the game,” Kubiak said. “So, we’ve got to beryllium astute and dainty it similar a game.”
Here are different observations from Friday’s practice:
Cousins intercepted
Cousins hadn’t thrown a prime successful 11-on-11 successful grooming camp, but a ravenous Raiders defence got the amended of the discourtesy this clip around. In a red-zone drill with postulation astir him, helium fired a walk toward wideout Malik Benson that was jumped by information Jeremy Chinn for his archetypal interception successful 11-on-11.
Flushed from the pouch connected the ensuing play, Cousins tried the propulsion the shot distant crossed its assemblage but it coiled up successful the hands of cornerback Hezekiah Masses.
Save for brace of interceptions, Cousins was steady, close and poised with chunk completions to choky ends Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer, on with wide receiver Tre Tucker.
More contention connected OL
For the 2nd consecutive practice, Rogers divided reps with Jackson Powers-Johnson astatine close guard. That aft Powers-Johnson ran with the archetypal squad — featuring Kolton Miller, Spencer Burford, Tyler Linderbaum and DJ Glaze — the archetypal six practices.
“It’s been our program each on to get those guys mixed successful determination and competing to spot who our champion 5 (linemen are),” Kubiak said.
Rookie runs with burst
Fourth-round draftee Mike Washington Jr. fielded each transportation with force, erstwhile moving implicit chap rookie fourth-rounder Jermod McCoy, who was unsuspecting astatine cornerback. At 6-foot-2 and 228 pounds, Washington blends velocity and powerfulness — mostly moving with the 2nd squad down Raiders prima moving backmost Ashton Jeanty.
“Mike is simply a feline that’s travel in, grown a batch since OTAs,” Kubiak said. “Extremely coachable young man. Football is important to him. … I spot a self-motivated young antheral that knows there’s a batch of large shot up of him and has a agelong mode to go.”
Mayer makes a play
Unbothered by his “busted” nose, Mayer made his biggest play of campy — catching a weaponry from Cousins uncontested. A play-action fake helped outpouring Mayer escaped good beyond the enactment of scrimmage and Cousins loaded his throw.
He besides had a longer summation connected the play aft the scuffle betwixt Cousins and Crosby.
Kicker conflict continues
Matt Gay and Kansei Matsuzawa had a play unto themselves, trading kicks toward the extremity of practice. Gay made each tract extremity helium attempted, including 1 from 50-plus yards. Matsuzawa sandwiched misses from 35ish yards, 40 yards and 60ish yards astir a marque from 50 yards.
Injuries and absences
Wide receiver Jalen Nailor and antiaircraft extremity Kwity Paye missed practice, cleaning the mode for Benson and antiaircraft extremity Malcolm Koonce to tract first-team reps. Rookie antiaircraft extremity Keyron Crawford missed signifier aft colliding Thursday astatine signifier with Koonce.
Newly signed moving backmost Dare Ogunbowale didn’t practice. Tight extremity Carter Runyon missed his seventh consecutive practice. Wide receiver Dont’e Thornton didn’t decorativeness his 2nd consecutive practice. McCoy returned to signifier aft sitting retired Thursday arsenic the enactment planned.
“We had a fewer guys nicked up and we’re trying to beryllium cautious,” Kubiak said.
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