Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast Looks at Silver and Black Smokescreens, NFL Draft Needs, and More

Our latest Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast episode discusses NFL smokescreens, NFL Draft needs, and more.

Oct 7, 2023; London, United Kingdom; NFL commissioner Roger Goodell at the NFL Experience London at / Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

The Las Vegas Raiders are barrelling toward the NFL Draft and are operating with frugality but not being cheap while the National Football League's Free Agency proceeds.

General Manager Tom Telesco, Coach Antonio Pierce, Defensive Coordinator Patrick Graham, and Offensive Coordinator Luke Getsy are all actively evaluating talent that could reshape the Silver and Black for the next decade.

The team is moving forward with a singular focus with eyes ahead.

Our latest Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast episode discusses NFL smokescreens, NFL Draft needs, and more.

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New Las Vegas Raiders Coach Antonio Pierce

 "Well, I think it's displayed back to the previous question. When you talk about penalties, you talk about turnovers, style of play, the way we change as far as how we play, our execution, personnel groupings, decision making, all that stuff is a work in progress. I mean, there's going to be one winner at the end of the season. All the rest of us, we lost. The funny part about when people say, you're not an X and O guy, well, I'm like, how have I been in the league this long? How did I play this long? How do I get this opportunity? My job is not to call X and O's, that's why you hire coordinators, offense, defense, special teams. My job is to put the plan together to get us into the best position to win games and put the best personnel out there, the best 11, best call. And that's been my role and that's my job unless it changes and I become the coordinator. But right now, you have a really good defensive coordinator in Patrick Graham. He did an outstanding job this year. Nobody talks enough about what we've done defensively and the buy in. This was probably a group last year that we didn't buy into, right? Let's talk about that Las Vegas Raiders Transcript 1.8.24 part. And you’ve seen the development of a lot of young players on our defensive side of the ball play really well, second year players, rookies, undrafted guys, next man up mentality. That's a credit. Special teams, same thing with Tom McMahon and what he's been able to do with those guys. And you got to give credit to Bo [Hardegree]. Has it been what we always wanted? No. Is everybody happy? No. I get it. But he took on something that was very difficult, where maybe he didn't have as much say as previous coaching staff allowed. But he took on a rookie quarterback who at the end of the season was playing really, really good football. And that rookie quarterback had a winning record with us." 

The NFL Draft will be held in Detroit, Mich., on April 25-27, 2024. The Las Vegas Raiders currently have the No. 13 overall pick.

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