Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast: Training Camp Update No. 26: The QB Decision

Our latest Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast offers you our 26th training camp update, focusing on the decision at quarterback.

Las Vegas Raiders Quarterback Gardner Minshew / Darrell Craig Harris, Sports Illustrated

HENDERSON, Nev.--The Las Vegas Raiders are entering their fifth week of training camp and are preparing to host the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in the last exhibition of this season on Friday.

Silver and Black Coach Antonio Pierce has announced that Gardner Minshew is the team's starting quarterback, and the team is moving on.

None of the starts will play on Friday night.

C Jack Jones has been a star since joining the Silver and Black, and he took time before practice to discuss his thoughts on the state of the Raider Nation.

Our latest Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast offers our 26th training camp update, focusing on the quarterback decision.

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Las Vegas Raiders Coach Antonio Pierce spoke recently before practice, and below is a partial transcript.

Opening Statement: "I'm going to go ahead and start off, Gardner Minshew is going to be the starting quarterback this 2024 season. Myself, [Tom] Telesco, and Luke Getsy discussed it this morning. A lot of things went into it. It wasn't based off the last night. There's a lot of factors, so we feel like Gardner gives us the best opportunity to get off to a fast start, and that's what we're going with. We support him, our teams behind it, our staff behind it, organizations behind it."

Q: Not in terms of necessarily all the specifics, but what would you say outweighed in favor of Gardner Minshew over Aidan O'Connell?

Coach Pierce: "Experience, the operation, the processing. The same thing we saw in practice, some of it showed up in the games. A lot ofstuff we can get better at. I don't think anything here is a finished product but based off the first quarter of the season, we feel like Gardner [Minshew] gives us the best opportunity."

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