How the Las Vegas Raiders performed successful an 18-12 nonaccomplishment to the San Francisco 49ers successful Thursday’s preseason crippled astatine Allegiant Stadium:
Offense: C-
Kirk Cousins led 2 field-goal drives and finished the preseason by putting points connected the committee connected each of the 3 drives successful which helium participated.
Both of the possessions were precise methodical and lacked explosion, however.
Fernando Mendoza got a mates chances to play with mostly the first-team discourtesy against 49ers reserves, but wasn’t capable to instrumentality advantage.
He threw an interception connected a precocious shot implicit the mediate that took respective deflections and finished with 3 points connected 5 possessions.
It was the decision of a reasonably mediocre preseason for the No. 1 pick, who is apt to commencement the regular play continuing his internship nether Cousins.
Defense: B
The Raiders didn’t person to woody with immoderate of the regulars oregon a regular-season Kyle Shanahan crippled plan, but they were coagulated successful astir of the areas antiaircraft coordinator Rob Leonard has been stressing.
They gave up a batch of yards but stiffened successful the reddish portion and were phenomenal connected 3rd down, holding San Francisco to 4 for 15.
While the Raiders weren’t capable to make immoderate takeaways, it was a wide betterment for a radical that struggled the archetypal 3 halves of the preseason earlier uncovering a spot of a rhythm.
They inactive person to beryllium they tin bash it against starters. But it’s a instauration from which to physique for Leonard’s caller scheme.
Special Teams: B+
The main nonsubjective for Joe DeCamillis’ radical was to clean up its operations aft a whopping 5 penalties against the Houston Texans.
They were capable to bash that.
The Raiders didn’t perpetrate immoderate evident blunders connected peculiar teams and astir came up with a immense play erstwhile E.J. Williams Jr. conscionable missed downing the shot astatine the 1-yard enactment connected a punt.
Still, AJ Cole had different bully nighttime punting the ball.
Matt Gay missed from 54 yards, but made his different 4 attempts arsenic helium appears to person locked up the job.
Coaching: B
There were definite areas the coaching unit stressed and the squad seemed to respond.
That’s a bully sign.
Klint Kubiak gave DeCamillis extended signifier clip for peculiar teams during signifier this week and that paid off. They besides improved connected third-down defense, though they truly struggled to halt the run.
Kubiak besides managed the timepiece reasonably good astatine the extremity of the 2nd quarter. Mendoza, however, whitethorn person been a spot excessively deliberate connected the ensuing thrust that ended successful a tract extremity conscionable astatine the halfitme buzzer.
He was capable to get done his archetypal preseason arsenic a caput manager without immoderate egregious decisions.
Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected X.
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