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- 0:00Speaker 1: Uh, really, what you gotta get back to your mindset
- 0:03Speaker 1: and the physical physicality that we tend to be and
- 0:07Speaker 1: the start the season, we gotta just get back to
- 0:09Speaker 1: that and be the most physical online, run the ball,
- 0:12Speaker 1: trust in it, and just keep doing it. Uh, finish
- 0:16Speaker 1: every play, no plays off, and really just be grammy.
- 0:19Speaker 1: We want them grammy runs. We want to run the ball.
- 0:22Speaker 1: So we gotta go out there and really just force it.
- 0:26Speaker 2: It's as a player a week the week can you
- 0:29Speaker 2: kind of get away from some of that and like
- 0:31Speaker 2: a refresh is good when you get a week off
- 0:34Speaker 2: all these bumps and bruises for the old line too.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Definitely, you got a lot of injuries everywhere and your
- 0:39Speaker 1: body hurting and and things like that, which is part
- 0:41Speaker 1: of the game. We all know that. But having a
- 0:43Speaker 1: bad week like we just had was great for everybody.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Just to try to get close as a hundred as possible.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Obviously it's NFL. You're never gonna be a hundred, but
- 0:51Speaker 1: close as one hundred if it was the week one.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Try to go out there and just dominate every week.
- 0:56Speaker 2: What's the number one thing that stands out about the
- 0:58Speaker 2: Raiders defense?
- 0:59Speaker 3: What pops out with you see on team. Oh, probably
- 1:04Speaker 3: that Max Across.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Yeah, well, honestly him, you got they got maxed, so
- 1:07Speaker 1: obviously got a game plan for him.
- 1:11Speaker 3: But really, I say there, that's the word I'm looking for.
- 1:15Speaker 3: I say that renderless.
- 1:16Speaker 1: They chase the ball, even just watching Max like he's
- 1:20Speaker 1: every play, even if he's on the other side of
- 1:21Speaker 1: the field, he's you're gonna see him in by the ball.
- 1:24Speaker 1: So just trying to match that and just have him
- 1:27Speaker 1: match our energy.
- 1:27Speaker 3: Obviously he's a great player.
- 1:29Speaker 1: They got good players on the d line and defense,
- 1:31Speaker 1: but have them match our energy.
- 1:32Speaker 3: We do that, I feel we be fine.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Coach said, they like right there at the top of
- 1:36Speaker 2: the league and battered passes at the line. As an
- 1:38Speaker 2: offensive line, how do you combat that? Guys get their
- 1:41Speaker 2: hands up.
- 1:42Speaker 1: Oh, just being here. It's kind of difficult because obviously
- 1:46Speaker 1: you're trying to block. You don't want to get closer
- 1:47Speaker 1: to the quarterback. So when you can.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Stop him, you like you did your job. But then
- 1:51Speaker 3: it's not over.
- 1:51Speaker 1: So it's just being being the most physical player out
- 1:55Speaker 1: there the whole time, the whole play. Into the whistle
- 1:57Speaker 1: blow you got him blocked, it's not over. He's still
- 2:00Speaker 1: mic and back the ball down.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Things like that.
- 2:02Speaker 1: So that's things that we we know, we talked about,
- 2:04Speaker 1: so you got to be locked in the whole game.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Finally, one of the buy ins real in this locker room.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Right even after the bye week now, but ten weeks
- 2:12Speaker 2: to go in the season. Definitely, everybody know what we
- 2:14Speaker 2: got in this locker room. Everybody love each other. We
- 2:17Speaker 2: all brothers, and we know what we can do.
- 2:19Speaker 1: So whatever happened in the past, it happened, is good
- 2:21Speaker 1: that it happened because we're all gonna grow from it
- 2:23Speaker 1: and we all got that mindset. We're gonna get better
- 2:25Speaker 1: from it, and that's all we need.
- 2:27Speaker 3: We don't need no no.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Background toss, no side side toss, anything like that.
- 2:31Speaker 3: We don't got that in this locker room.
- 2:32Speaker 1: So that's that's good to know, and that's good at
- 2:35Speaker 1: you know who you're fighting with, so it's good.
- 2:40Speaker 4: I think it's just being contagious.
- 2:43Speaker 5: You know, we start slow, we eventually play slow until
- 2:46Speaker 5: somebody makes it playing and we feed off that energy. U.
- 2:49Speaker 5: So I think it's just being contagious man starting fast,
- 2:52Speaker 5: finishing faster, and once we you know, start fast and
- 2:56Speaker 5: somebody makes a mistake, it's okay. Let's bounce back and
- 2:59Speaker 5: get back on track. I think once we start to
- 3:01Speaker 5: realize that, I think a lot of it is just
- 3:03Speaker 5: self afflicted to So once we get you know, understand, okay,
- 3:06Speaker 5: don't make one bad play turn into too understand that
- 3:09Speaker 5: as a defense, I think we can collectively understand that
- 3:12Speaker 5: and just alright, make a play. You know what I'm
- 3:15Speaker 5: saying that comes out to the leadership. You know, you
- 3:16Speaker 5: look at me like, Okay, we need to make a play.
- 3:20Speaker 5: Don't force it, just do what you do and uh,
- 3:23Speaker 5: you know, you know, continue, you know, keep going from there.
- 3:28Speaker 3: What's brands out about the Raiders under shatter.
- 3:33Speaker 5: R good running back uh dang, uh good f you know,
- 3:39Speaker 5: good rookie running back. Uh solid, you know, he runs
- 3:41Speaker 5: the ball really hard.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Uh.
- 3:43Speaker 5: Offensive lines you know pretty good as well. Jacobe Myers
- 3:47Speaker 5: is a good, you know, good receiver. And then you
- 3:49Speaker 5: have uh uh you got the tight end who's coming
- 3:52Speaker 5: back from injury, who's you know, I think arguably one
- 3:54Speaker 5: of the best tight end, best young tight ends in
- 3:56Speaker 5: the league right now. So he's definitely gonna be a.
- 3:58Speaker 4: Mith uh uh.
- 4:00Speaker 5: You know, max up problem for us that we got
- 4:01Speaker 5: to make sure that we dill in on him, and
- 4:05Speaker 5: you know, yeah.
- 4:07Speaker 6: It's sometimes it's just that simple. Like you said, guys
- 4:12Speaker 6: need to make plays. Yeah, I mean yeah, talked about
- 4:15Speaker 6: making sure you maximize the mind in the mirrors. Sometimes
- 4:18Speaker 6: it's just that simple where your guys make plays, Like
- 4:21Speaker 6: I think.
- 4:22Speaker 5: You know, we we're in the NFL for a reason.
- 4:24Speaker 5: You know, we made a lot of plays in our career.
- 4:26Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. We've also missed a lot
- 4:28Speaker 5: of players in our career as well. We all understand
- 4:30Speaker 5: what it feels like, what it looks like. It's okay,
- 4:34Speaker 5: just don't make one play turn into two, and don't
- 4:36Speaker 5: get overly frustrated because you did miss that play. Because
- 4:39Speaker 5: we got a whole rest of the game that's to go,
- 4:41Speaker 5: and you got your brothers depending on you. So I
- 4:44Speaker 5: think it can be that simple. If we make it
- 4:45Speaker 5: that simple, it can be that simple.
- 4:47Speaker 4: You know, we don't gotta make it. You know, we
- 4:50Speaker 4: don't gotta We don't gotta cus.
- 4:51Speaker 5: A curse fest or point your fingers. We don't need
- 4:54Speaker 5: to do that, you know what I'm saying. We're not
- 4:55Speaker 5: at that point either. So we're ready to get back
- 4:59Speaker 5: on track this week. Uh, you know, we know we
- 5:01Speaker 5: need to do coming into this week to get us
- 5:03Speaker 5: in situations to do what we do best.
- 5:06Speaker 4: And uh, we like our chances if we like our odds.
- 5:08Speaker 4: If we do, we do. The sacks haven't been there.
- 5:12Speaker 4: What are you concerned? Are you at the point of
- 5:15Speaker 4: concern yet for yourself? I mean, or was the pressures?
- 5:19Speaker 4: Are the pressures meeting off?
- 5:22Speaker 5: It's a weird questions I'm saying, but you you worded
- 5:27Speaker 5: that weird that I didn't like that one.
- 5:29Speaker 4: Can you reword that and come back to me question
- 5:32Speaker 4: every week? Every week? Are you at another point where
- 5:35Speaker 4: you're where you're get I get it, But come on, bro,
- 5:39Speaker 4: you know it was weird again? You know?
- 5:42Speaker 5: Do you watch the way I play? Yeah, all right,
- 5:45Speaker 5: this is gonna come keep hunting.
- 5:48Speaker 6: After the two weeks, the two games before, the two
- 5:53Speaker 6: games before the bye week, those weren't the ones you wanted.
- 5:55Speaker 3: I mean, how eager are you? I mean?
- 5:57Speaker 6: Sometimes it is the bye week feel a little longer
- 5:59Speaker 6: because you were to normally get one week and you're like, Okay,
- 6:02Speaker 6: I can go out and do a better performance and
- 6:04Speaker 6: show everybody what this team is.
- 6:06Speaker 3: You gonna have to sit on it for a few weeks.
- 6:08Speaker 3: What that is.
- 6:09Speaker 5: We got ten more games if we keep you know,
- 6:11Speaker 5: harping on. You know this, these last two man stay
- 6:15Speaker 5: in the fl you know what I'm saying. So things happen.
- 6:17Speaker 5: How quick can we get back on track? How quick
- 6:20Speaker 5: can we recover our bodies? I think everybody banged up,
- 6:22Speaker 5: everybody dealing with something. Let's get on top of that,
- 6:25Speaker 5: come back with that mind frame. We got ten weeks left,
- 6:28Speaker 5: we got a great opponent this week.
- 6:30Speaker 4: We hone in and do what we do. We get
- 6:31Speaker 4: on top, we get back on track.
- 6:33Speaker 6: The flip a Liam Cohen standing in front of you
- 6:35Speaker 6: guys taking ownership, saying that was a bad call on
- 6:37Speaker 6: his part, kind of went crazy online. I mean, how'm refreshing?
- 6:40Speaker 3: Is it?
- 6:41Speaker 6: I mean, do you do you like seeing a coach
- 6:42Speaker 6: that stands in front and says, hey, I need you
- 6:44Speaker 6: all to be better. But you know he takes ownership
- 6:46Speaker 6: for his side too.
- 6:47Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you know it's cool that he does that.
- 6:50Speaker 5: I think, you know, as a real leader, you know,
- 6:53Speaker 5: captain a leader, you know, guys that leads a ship.
- 6:56Speaker 5: I think you know we can shoulder the burden more
- 7:00Speaker 5: than most, so you know, we understand where we're at.
- 7:03Speaker 5: Like I would do the same thing if I was
- 7:05Speaker 5: in a situation because I know where my I know
- 7:08Speaker 5: where my responsibility is to this team, and I know
- 7:10Speaker 5: where you know that I can hold it, and I'm
- 7:13Speaker 5: gonna be okay, you know what I'm saying. But you
- 7:15Speaker 5: also got to be able to make sure that your
- 7:16Speaker 5: teammates understand that and your players know that, Like I know,
- 7:19Speaker 5: like he could have called a better play, but we
- 7:21Speaker 5: can make a play, you know what I'm saying. So
- 7:23Speaker 5: it kind of works both hand and hand. So you
- 7:25Speaker 5: know he can say it, but we have to understand
- 7:27Speaker 5: what he's trying to get at and uh and.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Move from there.
- 7:30Speaker 5: Josh, are the fact numbers okay for you?
- 7:35Speaker 4: Is it acceptable?
- 7:36Speaker 5: Because you know the effort is there and the pressures
- 7:38Speaker 5: are there, And what do.
- 7:40Speaker 4: You think I'm asking?
- 7:43Speaker 5: That's a I think that's a self explained like next question, please,
- 7:47Speaker 5: that's that's not a good question you're talking about. You're
- 7:49Speaker 5: talking about You're asking me, is this I gotta have
- 7:51Speaker 5: a sack? Do you think that's okay?
- 7:53Speaker 3: I don't.
- 7:54Speaker 5: I think I think if I can, I think if
- 7:56Speaker 5: I continue to rush, how I rush, they come in
- 7:58Speaker 5: bunches and it's going to be effected.
- 8:01Speaker 4: I answered it twice.
- 8:04Speaker 6: The first time you said, next question, that's all I am.
- 8:06Speaker 4: I answered it twice. I said the same thing.
- 8:10Speaker 7: Is there a relationship with Max Crossby? Like, is he
- 8:12Speaker 7: a guy you watch or talk to you in your past?
- 8:13Speaker 7: Cross Yeah, we talk a lot. You know, He's definitely
- 8:16Speaker 7: a guy that I know. Uh he's gonna be hunting
- 8:19Speaker 7: our game and I got a hunt too. Uh So, Yeah,
- 8:23Speaker 7: I can't wait to watch him now.
- 8:25Speaker 3: I can't.
- 8:26Speaker 5: Hopefully we do a good job in containing him, So
- 8:28Speaker 5: I don't want to watch him.
- 8:30Speaker 4: But he is a great player.
- 8:31Speaker 5: He does a lot of good things for that defense,
- 8:34Speaker 5: and he is the key focal point for that team.
- 8:36Speaker 5: Uh So we do a good job with him, shut
- 8:38Speaker 5: him down, which is I think every week people say that,
- 8:41Speaker 5: but he does what he do. But I have faith
- 8:44Speaker 5: in our on line could do what they do, Chips, nudges, whatever,
- 8:47Speaker 5: lac Quentin does.
- 8:48Speaker 4: You see him in past protection.
- 8:50Speaker 5: I know he's gonna be hind him a little bit,
- 8:51Speaker 5: gettinghim rep shots to all that contagious and you know
- 8:54Speaker 5: we get him out that game.
- 8:56Speaker 3: What can you guys improve upon? What are you doing?
- 8:58Speaker 8: Well?
- 9:00Speaker 9: We just honestly just communication honestly that we gotta get
- 9:03Speaker 9: better on making sure that we understand, you know, how
- 9:06Speaker 9: we want to play things and and keep.
- 9:08Speaker 4: The ball in front of us.
- 9:09Speaker 9: But when we are compete, when we can, we are
- 9:10Speaker 9: challenging people, especially on third down, we getting things done.
- 9:13Speaker 9: So we were competitive group. We just gotta communicate better
- 9:17Speaker 9: and make sure that, uh, you know, those big shots
- 9:19Speaker 9: don't get up on us.
- 9:21Speaker 2: What about this this Raiders offense? What what stands out
- 9:25Speaker 2: first when you pop on the table?
- 9:26Speaker 9: I mean the physical bunch man, the receivers, like the block.
- 9:30Speaker 9: They have a good running back and they have some
- 9:32Speaker 9: really good skill position. Jacobe Myers, he's been good for
- 9:35Speaker 9: really a long time. And uh uh.
- 9:38Speaker 4: They're they're tight end.
- 9:39Speaker 3: He's he's really good.
- 9:40Speaker 4: He's he was All Pro last year.
- 9:42Speaker 9: So they have some weapons out there, and you know
- 9:44Speaker 9: can he can sling it with the best of him
- 9:46Speaker 9: when he's on. So uh, it's it's it's obviously it's
- 9:49Speaker 9: a good challenge.
- 9:50Speaker 3: But I mean I feel like.
- 9:51Speaker 4: We we we.
- 9:52Speaker 2: We we're gonna bounce back from uh were secondary Bowers
- 9:56Speaker 2: might be back this week to the tight end. How
- 9:58Speaker 2: challenging is it when you have that kind of style
- 10:01Speaker 2: tight end that can run around on the secondary.
- 10:04Speaker 3: He can do a lot of things. Man.
- 10:05Speaker 9: He's he's fast, physical man, and he's good at the
- 10:07Speaker 9: catch point. So and he can make things happen with
- 10:09Speaker 9: the ball in his hand, so he can he can
- 10:11Speaker 9: line up at that number one receiver to to to
- 10:13Speaker 9: number three. So he's he's definitely a really good player.
- 10:16Speaker 9: And that's definitely a scheme challenge. But at the same time,
- 10:18Speaker 9: we just got to see, you know, how we can
- 10:20Speaker 9: defend that and you know, keep a lid on it.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Ten games ago.
- 10:23Speaker 2: How you feel been around the sleep for a long time.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Good?
- 10:27Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean a little banged up, but that's to
- 10:29Speaker 9: be expected, you know, just trying to get healthy, make
- 10:31Speaker 9: sure that you know, we can make this run to
- 10:33Speaker 9: the postseason.
- 10:34Speaker 3: But I really feel good about what we've been doing.
- 10:36Speaker 9: Especially in this off I mean in its off time
- 10:38Speaker 9: and it's by a week, just you know, making sure
- 10:40Speaker 9: that we see our point of attack things and see
- 10:42Speaker 9: how team people teams want to attack us and you know,
- 10:45Speaker 9: try to get that cleaned up.
- 10:46Speaker 3: But I feel like I feel like we really we
- 10:47Speaker 3: didn't get that done.
- 10:48Speaker 9: So if we can keep the ball off our you know,
- 10:50Speaker 9: off our back end.
- 10:51Speaker 3: I think we'll be really good.
- 10:54Speaker 8: It's super important just to be able to get back
- 10:55Speaker 8: and get your body back to feeling good.
- 10:58Speaker 4: Uh, it's take it to take advantage of the time.
- 11:00Speaker 3: You have off.
- 11:00Speaker 8: So it's super important just to be able to get
- 11:02Speaker 8: that little break when at a time when it's really needed.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Please, it just as important to get a mental break
- 11:07Speaker 2: for everybody after camp first part of the season, just
- 11:10Speaker 2: kind of get away.
- 11:11Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, cause you gotta like a long it's
- 11:13Speaker 8: a long season. It's a long like from going into
- 11:16Speaker 8: camp all the way into the season and all that.
- 11:18Speaker 8: So just be able to get a break right now.
- 11:21Speaker 8: I feel like it was perfect time, and I feel
- 11:22Speaker 8: like it was what we needed as a team, And
- 11:24Speaker 8: I feel like we're gonna come back out energized and
- 11:26Speaker 8: just confident and ready to finish out the season.
- 11:28Speaker 6: Williams said earlier when the keys to like maximizing the
- 11:30Speaker 6: Bible was the self scout to look in the mirror
- 11:32Speaker 6: part of it. Yeah, when you guys looked at the
- 11:34Speaker 6: the offense, what'd you come away with?
- 11:36Speaker 8: Uh, we just figured out all the things that we
- 11:39Speaker 8: need to do better. It's a lot of little things.
- 11:41Speaker 8: Clean up a lot of the penalties. Uh, stuff like
- 11:43Speaker 8: that drops. Uh uh, all of like the little things,
- 11:46Speaker 8: just the stuff that we've been messing up on each
- 11:48Speaker 8: and every week, and we just gotta clean it up
- 11:49Speaker 8: and come out and be better.
- 11:50Speaker 6: What did it mean to you for to hear Liam
- 11:52Speaker 6: say he has complete confidence in you.
- 11:55Speaker 3: Uh?
- 11:55Speaker 8: I mean it just gives me confidence that uh he
- 11:57Speaker 8: he gots confidence in me, uh to go out there
- 11:59Speaker 8: and be at the highest level out there each and
- 12:01Speaker 8: every place.
- 12:02Speaker 4: So yeah, it gives me confidence.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Where where is your confidence level?
- 12:05Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you had a little bit of struggles
- 12:07Speaker 3: in the first seven games. Where's your confidence level with this? Uh?
- 12:09Speaker 3: High as always?
- 12:11Speaker 8: Uh, I would say, so I feel like I know
- 12:13Speaker 8: what I could do, and uh, I know what I'm
- 12:14Speaker 8: capable of, So my confidence level is always high.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Do you listen to the outside noise at all?
- 12:19Speaker 3: I mean, do you hear it or feel it or no?
- 12:23Speaker 3: M not really?
- 12:24Speaker 4: Nah, I don't really.
- 12:25Speaker 8: I don't mean. I mean you see it every now
- 12:26Speaker 8: and then, but I don't really pay attention to it.
- 12:28Speaker 8: I care about it is what it is. Everybody got
- 12:30Speaker 8: their own opinion, everybody entice their own thing.
- 12:32Speaker 3: So it is what it is.
- 12:34Speaker 8: What's been your mindset just with that in mind moving
- 12:36Speaker 8: forward through the season, what's been your mindset on how
- 12:38Speaker 8: to sort of just keep that keep the main.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Thing the day basically.
- 12:43Speaker 8: Uh, like you just said, keep the main thing, the
- 12:45Speaker 8: main thing. Go out there, uh, each and every game,
- 12:47Speaker 8: give 'em all, compete.
- 12:49Speaker 6: Uh.
- 12:49Speaker 8: Even if you feel like you don't do the best,
- 12:51Speaker 8: come out next week, try to do better than what
- 12:53Speaker 8: you did last week.
- 12:54Speaker 6: Uh.
- 12:55Speaker 8: So yeah, that's been that's been my mindset is just
- 12:57Speaker 8: put my best foot forward each and every day, come
- 12:58Speaker 8: out and compete.
- 13:00Speaker 6: We would have to guard against pressing to try and
- 13:02Speaker 6: do too much that one time.
- 13:04Speaker 3: You have to guard against pressing, like trying to do
- 13:06Speaker 3: too much.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Uh.
- 13:08Speaker 8: At times you can catch yourself trying to just like
- 13:11Speaker 8: press a little bit, but I mean it comes with it.
- 13:15Speaker 8: Just gotta catch it while you like catch it or
- 13:18Speaker 8: in the moment or whatever, and just tell yourself to
- 13:20Speaker 8: you know, relax your uh, finish out and be confident me.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Uh, finish out strong.
- 13:26Speaker 3: What's the viblack in that wide receiver room?
- 13:28Speaker 6: How nice is to play with a guy like the.
- 13:29Speaker 8: Homi oh man, one of them better receivers, one of
- 13:37Speaker 8: the better receivers in the league just made him go
- 13:39Speaker 8: out there, shared the same field with them to honor man.
- 13:43Speaker 3: Honor.
- 13:44Speaker 4: You have one of your best games against the Ringers
- 13:45Speaker 4: last year.
- 13:46Speaker 8: I know it's a new coaching staff, new system, all that,
- 13:48Speaker 8: but do you draw from that at all going.
- 13:50Speaker 4: Into this week?
- 13:51Speaker 8: Uh, yeah, a little bit. I went back and watched
- 13:54Speaker 8: the game earlier this week. Uh just see some of
- 13:56Speaker 8: the things that they were doing, some of the some
- 13:58Speaker 8: of the ways they were playing.
- 13:59Speaker 3: Uh. But yeah, for sure.