McDaniels Wants to Focus on Building Confidence in Practice

Raiders Josh McDaniels wants to focus on building his team's confidence in close games.

The Las Vegas Raiders are currently 1-4.

All four of those losses came within one possession.

Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels says experience winning in a close game scenario gives the team to be successful in the long run.

"I think experience and actually getting it done under pressure gives you confidence that you can do it again,” McDaniels said. “We did some of those things a week ago against Denver, and we had our chances yesterday. Nobody can sit here and say we didn't have opportunities last night, that's not a true statement. ... I don't think anybody here is discouraged about the fact that we're not close. I think now it's about, what do we need to do in practice? What do we need to do carry it over to the games to be able to really make the plays that are winning plays at the end so that we have an opportunity to close out a lot of these close games?”

Part of the reason why the preparation as much as the execution is important is that the NFL is all about close games.

All the Raiders' losses have been close games.

“Because that's what the NFL is, it's a lot of close games every week,” McDaniels said. “And when you start learning how to win them, and finishing them, you start to get a confidence and swagger about yourself. Then when you get in the next one, you feel good about it.”

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