Klint Kubiak Has Completely Transformed The Raiders In One Year!

Um, not, not a great look for the highest paid center in the National Football League. Not, not, not an ideal look. And that is not the only negative play from the Tyler Linderbaum sphere of film to watch. We're going to get into that with the do we have a center problem topic. But it's on my radar. I would just like to put that out there. It is on my radar. That ain't good. But we got a lot to talk about. We got to talk about perspective. We've got to talk about Kirk Cousins potentially in what was a meaningless, unless you took the Raiders to cover, a meaningless touchdown to fight your way back, airing it out to Trey Tucker. How that play could have unlocked a new level of the offense because Kirk talked about Trey in his presser. I thought he had some very interesting things to talk about. We got the Kubiak presser. We've got a lot to talk about. We've got a lot to talk about, and we're going to waste no time. 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And people have been saying, oh, this Raiders scheduled the gauntlet, the gauntlet, and yeah, we're not winning the games. But nobody expected us to be competitive or to look this good or to push this type of roster ahead of where we should be. We're sitting here at 3-3 with some winnable games coming up. People are going to tell you that the Rams and the Broncos and the Seahawks, it's more of the same impossible schedule. But we have proven, especially with how we played against the Bills, that what happened against the Patriots, look, the game got away from us. These things happen sometimes. And we're going to use that sentiment, these things happen sometimes when we talk about Tyler Underbaum. But you can tell there's a clear shift in the organization. you can tell from Kubi X-Person yesterday which we didn't watch live on the show because he wasn't on the podium so I couldn't get to it and I couldn't wait for him but he's very upset when we lose and he's very concise with his thoughts and he's very knowledgeable on exactly what we need to do to get this stuff right and I see the adjustments being made offensively, defensively I see this team playing hard I see the players playing hard and at the center of it all is Kirk Cousins because if we bring that tweet back up I mean Kirk Cousins still after, how many weeks has it been? Six. He's still leading the league in touchdowns. Now, Brock Purdy could pass him today if he has two. But he's tied for first in touchdowns at 14. He has only five interceptions. He has fifth in the league in passing yards for that lowly arm. And he's got a 3-3 record without having a Puka Nakua or a Jamar Chase or a Justin Jefferson or a Drake London or an Amon-Ra St. Brown. Kirk Cousins has been a very good, steady hand on what could have been a season that got away from us if you don't beat up on the teams that you're beating prior. So why are we talking about Kirk Cousins to Trey Tucker? That play at the end of the game, that wasn't, oh, the Bills are playing prevent, defense, and blah, blah, blah. Kirk, if they're playing prevent, defense, you can't get anybody by them. But that ability to unlock and to put on film at some point Trey Tucker over the top, that's going to open up the run game for us, which desperately needs to be opened up if we want to have any chance that's still making like a legitimate playoff run because right now we are averaging around 30 points per game with no run game with no hugely impactful wide receiver except for Trey Tucker every now and again and Kirk Cousins in his press conference yesterday said Trey Tucker can haul and he's noticing and he noticed in this game and he's noticing more that he's even faster than he initially thought and that he needs to just shuck it and Trey's going to go get it and he said I played with people like Deshaun Jackson Trey Tucker can haul and I do think that play at the end of the game Trey Tucker now is on pace for close to 1100 yards and eight touchdowns the more we continue to get the ball to Brock and the Michael Mayer Trey Tucker is going to get better throughout the season and I expect him to unlock another level of this offense because of what happened at the end of this game there was another play to Jalen Naylor I think that Kirk Cousins just missed on and there are a couple plays where in games before this he wasn't taking shots to Trey Tucker when maybe he should have and he's realizing now more than ever this is my time to unleash and unlock Trey Tucker and I do think based off of what was put on film against the Buffalo Bills in that game with Trey Tucker specifically because he had two touchdowns in this game that is going to another element that unlocks his offense that again is averaging 30 points per game when Kirk Cousins threw that pick yesterday I was considering is there a world where we go to Mendoza in the next game because I don't know if there is anything that Kirk can do right now that Mendoza can't we know there are things that Mendoza can do that Kirk can't however with the team being competitive right now and Kirk leading the league in touchdowns you can't bench him yet you just can't and I thought he was okay yesterday I thought he played good enough to win the game but the offense in particular did not play good enough to win the game and it wasn't his fault we had that stupid push push fourth uh fourth and one that turned into a field goal kick we had Ashton Gentry getting blown up in the backfield on second and one from the one and then the pick was definitely Kirk Cousins' fault but it's only his fifth of the year in a in a game in the first how many didn't he have two interceptions in the first game and then one in the second game so I think Kirk Cousins is getting more comfortable with getting the ball to Trey, and that's going to be massively important for us. Now, what's also massively important is that you hit that subscribe button, please. About 50% of you that are watching this are not yet subscribed to the channel. We're trying to get to 17,000. We are pushing. We are under 200 away from 17,000. Let's hear a little Clint Kubiak presser from today. Ready when you are. I believe so. We'll see. But I'm counting on him, you know, working back into the fold. Tonka. What do you want to be like about Caleb Blackman's game? Caleb was prepared. You know, there's some good and bad. You know, I see him as a young player that's continuing to improve. When you went to the third quarter, is there any common thread you can see? Third quarter's got to be fixed. When we got the ball with two minutes to go before half, I said if we want to be serious about like winning and controlling this game the next time the bills touch the ball because it was it was what was it was 13 10 I believe Buffalo then and then we got the ball at half I said the next time the bills touch the ball it should be 24 to 13 we should go double dip on them like the Patriots did to us like really good teams would do and instead we kicked the field goal which was okay we got down there we kicked the field goal and then we went three and out instantly we got to figure out a way to capitalize on those opportunities. Overall, it's just a complete lack of production. It's really putting us in a bad spot as a team, not getting it done, getting outscored in the third quarter. As a coaching staff, we're hard at work trying to identify what are those common things and what do we need to do to put our players in a better position because yesterday was a great example of how much it can hurt you and it did. So we're looking at our process at halftime, at what we're asking the players to do coming out in the third quarter, and that's a major point of emphasis. Clint, when you have a team that you're trying to build for long term as well as this year, it's one thing when young players make mistakes, but when veterans, guys that you paid as free agents to come in make those mistakes, how is that exacerbated in the frustration level? Well, you know, this is the least perfect game in the free world. Everybody makes mistakes, coaches and players, veterans and rookies. And so it's really identifying who are your guys that you can count on, you know, and that's a body of work. And the more accountable players that we can have that we learn to trust, those are the guys that get more playing time and get more opportunities. So that's coaching too. You know, the more you learn about your coaching staff and yourself, you know, you put different guys in different leadership roles. So, but I don't expect our guys to be perfect. It's a full-speed, four-quarter game with bodies flying everywhere, but it's really the guys that are accountable, especially in the toughest moments. Those are the guys that you really rely heavily on. Coach, going back to the start of the third quarter, is that a mindset-type thing to try to get these guys to go out a little bit faster or maybe a little bit more energy, or is it a combination of them? I do. I think that has a lot to do with it. I think offensively, first play of the second half, we've got to play on, And, you know, I think we have a good play versus what they called, and we didn't execute up front. And so you have to get all 11 guys playing well. And so that's my challenge. I wish somebody would ask him about the pass, pass, pass on that drive that we went three and out and kicked the ball back to him. Way to attack it, though. Sorry to keep talking about the third quarter, but it seems like in the second half in recent weeks, It's like opposing defenses tend to uptick the pressure where it feels like Kirk Cousins is dealing with a lot more pressure on heads. What are you seeing from defenses in the second half, or that's more of a drop-off in production from the offensive line? I would have to look at that more. Obviously, teams make adjustments, and it's no excuse for us not to protect, especially on that first play. We've got to have the guys ready to play. And like I said earlier, I'm really excited about the challenge of attacking that and improving that. You brought up the inefficiency in the red zone yesterday being unacceptable. Just where did you see things didn't go right in that situation? Put in a Mendoza red zone package. I'm going to say it and manifest it until it is done. Yes, well, you know, key fourth and one. You know, we have a penalty. You know, we dropped a ball in the red zone, you know, in two minutes right before half, had an opportunity to go score before half, didn't get it done. Penalties, lack of execution, it's not one thing, but I think mainly when you want to be a good red zone team, you've got to run the ball well in the red zone. We didn't do that. To follow on that a little bit, you used a timeout to prevent the 12-man penalty. It's been a couple times that that's happened this year. What are you seeing there and how consequential going back to the red zone? It would have been nice to have that timeout, I'm sure, at the end of the first half. How consequential was that? Yeah, that is, as a coaching staff, that's unacceptable. Yesterday, Mike Washington had nearly doubled the rushing yards just by having half of the carries. Do you think that's schematically, do you think they're just doing something in place to, you know, combat against Asher versus Mike, or do you think that there's another reason behind that? I think we have to get production from all three of our backs, and, you know, Mike Washington did some good stuff yesterday, and, you know, I thought overall our backs, you know, they ran harder yesterday. I thought they broke tackles. I thought they moved the line of scrimmage when things weren't there. I thought Coach Omar did a really good job of challenging our guys. I thought they had one of their better games, and I expect that to continue to improve. After the game. When he first came back after the concussion, what did you see from him? Who was that? What did you see from him? Nothing. When he was in the practice yesterday, do you feel like it's more just his first game back, or did you see that he gave himself opportunity to catch the ball? He had targets. He got called on, and we threw a double move to him, and they had a penalty on him. he caught a choice route. I thought Jalen, it was great to have him back. You could feel his presence out there and just got to keep finding ways to get him the ball because he's a really good player. He's a player that I'm counting on, that we're counting on, that's going to continue to ascend. After the game, Kirk talked about him and Trey building trust. Clint, do you think maybe going vertical more earlier in the game could help in getting teams from stacking the box? There you go, Hondo. Yeah, Trey's showing that he can really stress the defense and yeah, I agree. There's always any time that you can push a ball down the field it's going to open things up. I agree with you. Tyler Linderbaum was pretty critical of his performance yesterday. What did you make of how he played in his performance through the first six weeks of the season? I think he's been a leader on our offense. I think he's been a major bright spot in our offense and a huge reason you know why we were able to score on six of ten possessions because of his leadership. And for a guy that is hard on himself, that usually, you know, tells you that he cares. You know, he is a leader. By the way, not to spoil my take, we're going to watch some of the bad film on Tyler Linderbaum. He had a bad game. It happens. Okay, it happens It's the NFL. You're going to get worse sometimes. He had a bad game. He has not been bad for six games. He's been good for most of the games. He is accountable, and that's Tyler. I just, like, even though there's been limitations to the offense, whether it's second half or run game, you guys are still figuring out ways to put points on the board. How much does that bring optimism, like, once you guys are able to figure out that, you know, we can take what we're doing even further? Yeah, that was a big part of our message five minutes ago. The object of the game is to score points. and you know whether you're getting it done from the ground or from the air or they're coming from special teams or defensive scores as a team obviously it's a team game and it's about about outscoring the opponent so um we're never gonna you know we always want to be great in all facets okay but you know you're going to play to your strengths so our you know moving the ball and scoring points is was good yesterday however you know what do you got to do to get over the hump you got to score you got to score on all five possessions in the red zone not just two of five You talked after the game about the challenge that you guys had that probably was a mistake. Are you comfortable with where the process is in terms of when those things happen and how that communication goes? I am. The communication is great, and, you know, I challenged it. I thought the guy made the catch, and like I told you guys yesterday, you know, a four-yard catch is not something you need to be challenging. So, considering what you do on the season, how do you evaluate yourself as a first-year head coach for six weeks? yeah you know um i i don't know why i'm laughing it's it's i think like an uncomfortable laugh right there because i just always think about our team i'm evaluating our team you know and one person as a coach one player that's really good or bad is irrelevant you know so how would i evaluate our team right now and i evaluate us as a three and three and three team you are what your record says you are we have everything in front of us we have a really good football team coming into our place this week and like i just told the guys you know it's it's everything's in front of us so what's our decision going to be is it going to be oh here we go again or is it going to be oh let's attack this next let's attack this next game and put ourselves in position and you know that's what i love about these guys like these guys are these guys aren't aren't down yeah we're down yesterday but not today today we're getting better we're making corrections we know all the good things that we can do. We know what's ahead of us and what we can accomplish as a team, and there's a lot of positivity in that, and that's where I'm at right now. What kind of rhythm has Darian Porter found the last couple weeks? Yes, he's a competitor. He's got really thick skin. He's a guy that has been picked on by the media, myself, and April, and he got benched, and now he's back playing, and he's got thick skin. I like him, man. I like what he's about. Can I just say is there like a different energy and vibe to Clint Kubiak right now he feels like with every close loss to an opponent it feels like he's gaining more confidence in the team and his ability to put points on the board which is the most important thing for him because he's the offensive play caller we can't run the ball effectively and other than Trey Tucker we have no impact wide receiver and we're putting up 30 a game we played the chiefs we played the bills right down to the end we could be five and one we could be the number one seed in the AFC if two bounce two balls bounce our way you are what your record shows but i i do feel like clint kubiak in that moment there there's a vibe about him that's that's starting to gain a little bit of confidence so look, let's just read this and then let's all have a collective deep breath about it all let's get through it Do the Raiders have a problem at center? Warren Mitchell on RaidersBeat.com The Raiders have heavily invested heavily in their offensive line over the last two years but no position along the offensive line in Las Vegas received a bigger boost than Tyler Linderbaum on Sunday against the Bills Linderbaum turned in arguably his worst performance of the season and one play in particular has been making the rounds, we watched it PFF uh gave Linderbaum the lowest offensive lineman grade on the team 46.8 and their analytics indicate he was particularly ineffective as a run blocker 29.8 on the season PFF ranks Linderbaum as the number 22 center in the league with an overall grade of 58.8 for the sake of reference um Linderbaum's 2024 grade is uncomfortably close to the PFF grade Jordan Meredith got a year ago 57.7 like everyone along the Raiders offensive line Linderbaum is running a new system under head coach Nick Kubiak and six games is a small sample size for that reason it's too early to hit the panic button but without question the Raiders need to get more consistency from the center position going forward that that's my take look has he been perfect no has he been great no but it takes a little bit for your offensive line to mesh and again with all these issues we're putting up 30 points per game the defense needs to find a way to get a little more off the field on third down but the main issue for us other than running the ball effectively is the red zone and I do think Nick Kubiak is going to find a way to score more points and I'm going to tell you right now I expect us to beat the Rams we're going to get into that preview as the week goes on but the Rams now have no Davante Adams Kyren Williams is complaining about not getting the ball Stafford is a statue he's this is his worst year as a Ram I think we're gonna beat the Rams to go to four and three shout out to my five and ten dollar patrons and YouTube members if you want to become one of these people help keep the lights on link in the description below or the big join button down below join the Discord which is completely free hit that like button comment away and please be sure to subscribe it's free absolutely no charge to you i love you guys and i'll see you next time