Las Vegas Raiders manager Klint Kubiak did not privation to disclose whether helium plans to play immoderate starters oregon what his rotation mightiness look similar for Thursday’s last preseason crippled against the San Francisco 49ers.
It’s much wide what helium volition beryllium looking for from whichever players are connected the field.
Kubiak was highly frustrated with the 9 penalties his squad committed past week successful a win implicit the Houston Texans, including 5 connected peculiar teams.
He doesn’t privation to spot a repetition erstwhile the Raiders big the 49ers successful a 5 p.m.game astatine Allegiant Stadium.
“We enactment it connected ourselves arsenic coaches No. 1, with however we amended them, what we’re practicing, what we’re drilling, and it’s connected us, arsenic coaches, to get it fixed,” Kubiak said Friday aft watching Thursday’s crippled film. “I don’t cognize if I’ve seen that galore peculiar teams penalties successful a game, and you look astatine the guys that are committing these penalties, and these are immoderate younger guys, and it’s not acceptable. So, we person to get it fixed.”
Some of the penalties were players trying to bash excessively much, which are much palatable to woody with for a coach. But Decamerion Richardson inexplicably tried to down a punt wrong the 5-yard enactment aft stepping retired of bounds erstwhile the shot was conscionable sitting connected the field.
“I cognize we had immoderate penalties past week, and nobody’s sicker than me,” said peculiar teams manager Joe DeCamillis, who besides cited Kansei Matsuzawa’s landing portion infraction connected a kickoff. “(Richardson) has been drilling that each time, and again that outgo us. Going from starting astatine the 5 to the 20. People say, ‘hidden yardage’ successful the kicking game. That ain’t hidden yardage, that’s 15 yards we should person had backmost there. Those are the ones that I’m upset about.”
It’s astir apt nary astonishment the Raiders opened signifier each time this week with their astir extended peculiar teams periods of camp, though Kubiak said it’s conscionable a substance of starting to get into regular-season mode.
“It’s thing that we’re talking about, and it’s thing that we’re going to address,” linebacker and peculiar teams ace Segun Olubi said. “Obviously can’t happen, and we’re doing everything that we tin successful signifier to marque definite that we’re finishing good connected these blocks and that we’re getting things done the mode that they request to get done truthful that we tin determination guardant and play complementary football.”
The penalties weren’t conscionable constricted to peculiar teams, either.
Kubiak expressed displeasure with a cadence contented from rookie backmost Fernando Mendoza that led to a process punishment and called some a taunting telephone connected rookie cornerback Jermod McCoy and a antiaircraft substitution infraction “unacceptable.”
Kubiak knows the Raiders indispensable play a cleaner crippled if they privation to vie erstwhile the play begins.
“(It’s about) holding guys accountable, working, drilling things that we didn’t bash arsenic well,” helium said. “I cognize those are things that we manager them connected each day, but we bash person a batch of young guys that you can’t instrumentality thing for granted.”
Many of those aforesaid young guys volition person their past accidental to marque an content connected the coaching unit and the beforehand bureau earlier cutdown time connected Sunday erstwhile NFL teams person to beryllium down to 53 players.
Kubiak has said crippled reps are the astir invaluable instrumentality for measuring which players tin assistance the roster, not conscionable connected discourtesy oregon defence but besides connected peculiar teams.
While helium was non-committal astir precisely who would get those opportunities, it’s apt Mendoza volition erstwhile again get extended reps astatine quarterback.
Kubiak has said the lone mode helium will get amended is with reps, and if Kirk Cousins is so the starting backmost for Week 1, Mendoza’s signifier reps are astir to instrumentality a large hit. So Thursday could beryllium precise invaluable for him.
Cousins and the starting discourtesy whitethorn spot immoderate action, particularly aft the wide receiver country was called out for needing to springiness the squad more, but it whitethorn not beryllium overmuch much than a cameo if anything.
Star moving backmost Ashton Jeanty is highly improbable to play aft suffering an wounded successful practice and Kubiak has ruled retired playing prima antiaircraft extremity Maxx Crosby successful the preseason.
Otherwise, each eyes volition beryllium connected the fringes of the roster wherever respective young players person their past accidental to marque an content connected the Raiders and the remainder of the league’s 31 different teams should they deed the waiver wire.
San Francisco manager Kyle Shanahan has said his starters are improbable to play.
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