Hankins would be one of only six defensive starters back from last season - and that’s if Johnathan Abram holds off former Patriots safety Duron Harmon. That doesn’t sound great, not that he really said much. “So, once we feel confident that we’re headed in the right direction and we’re not going to take a misstep, then we’ll make the right decision at that time.” Again, those things are - sometimes you feel good one day and not as good the next and all the rest of it. “I don’t want to put a timeframe on that because as soon as they’re ready, we will be ready to go. “We’ll kind of gauge that as we go here in the next so many days,” McDaniels said. 23, they’ll be forced to miss the first four games of the season.) Is McDaniels confident Hankins and Nichols will be back next week? (If any of the players remain on physically unable to perform list past Aug. and Matthew Butler are getting a lot of reps due to injuries to veterans Johnathan Hankins and Bilal Nichols but were hard to pick out from all the bodies on the field, many of which won’t be here in three weeks. Rookie defensive tackles Neil Farrell Jr. And … he will get another chance to try and carry over the training camp buzz in the game in Miami on Saturday. Malcolm Koonce had a sack and a pressure, and he looks to be winning the third pass-rusher job.Īmik Robertson, the undersized corner who impressed the last regime before falling off in the regular season, played the most snaps of any defensive player Sunday. The Raiders got run on pretty well by the Vikings - 115 yards on 22 attempts, for a 5.2 per carry clip - with the exception of a nice goal-line stuff by newcomer Andrew Billings. Just some things that we as a group defensively we’re going to learn from and hopefully make progress this week.” ‘There’s a few guys that didn’t play a lot of plays, and there’s other guys that played a few more. There’s plenty to learn from, I really believe that.
“I mean there’s a lot, they only played 52 plays or whatever it was so they played a little less football. “It would probably be quick with an answer if I said someone specifically stood out,” he said. But then he stopped and grounded it.Ĭornerback Nate Hobbs shakes hands with McDaniels during the Raiders’ win over the Vikings. McDaniels looked like he was going to toss back an answer to my question. I asked McDaniels on Monday if he could name a defensive player or two who jumped out in Sunday’s win. McDaniels - he of the six Super Bowl rings as a Patriots assistant and cloak of secrecy - isn’t saying.
They both may mean something, and they may not. Oh my! ( Yeah, that was me.) Right tackle Alex Leatherwood came off the bench in Sunday’s exhibition win over the Vikings. Running back Josh Jacobs started the preseason opener. It’s hard to know yet what McDaniels is really looking at roster wise or what to react to in preseason games where the main goal is for players to walk away uninjured. Maybe the real competition for roster spots doesn’t start until the two joint practices against the Patriots next Tuesday and Wednesday when McDaniels and his former boss Bill Belichick can script up the situations they want to practice and the position groups they want to see get really tested. He is trying to drive home fundamentals and a new offense. These Raiders just happened to start training camp a week early due to the Hall of Fame Game, and McDaniels is slowly grinding. That’s not a complaint - I don’t miss Antonio Brown jumping off a hot-air balloon three years ago with frozen feet, some old helmets that were no longer sanctioned and then needing Vontaze Burfict to hold him back from attacking then-general manager Mike Mayock. Let’s face it, the preseason games and training camp have been mostly uneventful. If you’re waiting for some big hints about what Josh McDaniels thinks his offensive line is going to look like or what roles are being won on defense, bring a pillow and a blanket. There are still 26 days left until the Raiders’ season opener.
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