Benson dropping that ball on 3rd down is gonna mess with his mind a bit but it shouldn’t. It’s typical for players to lack effort when they’re wide open. His mind starting thinkin of what he needed to do after catchin the ball n he didn’t focus enough on catching. Happens… #RN4L
Fernando threw a pick 6 just now. Mendoza is gonna make rookie mistakes. That’s okay…. But the main issue is that yall are putting too much expectation on him too early. Let the kid develop. All this pressure to be amazing is most likely effecting him negatively. #RN4L
Fernando / Kirk both threw INTs against the Texans defense today at joint practice. And that’s okay, but we all have to be realistic with our expectations of this #Raiders team. We have a Rookie QB, An older vet QB who is a hot and cold player, and a QB whos only started 17 games
#Raiders just finished a light stadium practice ahead of the preseason opener. Kirk Cousins was solid. Aidan O'Connell had a 50-yard TD pass to Brandon Johnson during the 7-on-7 period. Fernando Mendoza played well outside of a tipped pass that resulted in an INT by Cody Lindenberg.
Caleb Rogers and Jackson Powers-Johnson continued to alternate reps at guard.
Aidan O’Connell had a hard day at practice yesterday. So did Mendoza. And today Kirk Cousins had a hard day. I guess our CBs and defense are doing their job well as of late. #Raiders#Raidernation
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Aidan O’Connell is 7-1 when playing in games where we had over 100 rush yards.
The average rush yards for a NFL team is 114.
But we were bottom 3 in rush yards year after year.
Just imagine if we had a good run game when AOC was starter…