Raiders Special Teams Coach Joe DeCamillis The Hidden Blocks Behind Big Runs

Everyone sees the great runs, and Dylan's doing a great job not minimizing that. But when I watched the film and went back and watched in detail, there were some crushing blocks. As a special teams coordinator, can you get into the blocking and the sellout you're getting from those guys? Because I don't think they're getting enough credit. No, I mean, you nailed it. Usually when there's big runs like that, it usually holds open because guys are doing a good job of blocking. And I think our guys have done an outstanding job of that for the most part during the year. You know, a lot of it, the credit has to go to Marquise and Timmy McConnell. They do a good job of trying to script everything during the week. And I think it's been very collaborative as far as how things have gone there. We've got a hell of a challenge in front of us this week because these guys this week are real. Your clock is more important than mine, but he who shall not be named, the player you don't want me to name, had a couple of snaps last week that hit 6.5, and one hit 6.4 on my watch. I don't know what it was on yours. Or 6.4, 6.5. Which is unbelievably elite. Can you talk about that, please? Yeah, he's done a good job for us all year as you keep trying to just pull it out of me. And we hope that continues. The biggest thing that I'm most excited about with him is the field goal operation. Because that, to me, that's the hardest thing to get, where laces and location and all that kind of stuff has been so good. And he's done a good job of that. I know flipping the field's important every week. But when you have a team like Seattle, how important is it to truly flip the field? There's going to be a lot of situations where the defense is so good that maybe you're going to have to There's no question when you look at what they did last year, I said a couple weeks ago about the Jets being first, they were second, or they were first and the Jets were second last year. But they really haven't fallen off, they've got an unbelievable returner in Rasheed. The punter is a big time guy also for them, he can flip the field, does a great job there. They just did a great job last year playing complementary football and has continued this They know what kind of team they are. They know what's important to them. And for us to be able to execute the way we need to, we've got to make it a long field for them and a short field for us. That's the biggest key. That starts with obviously the punter and the kicker, but we've got to do a great job in all facets of the game this week because it's going to be a heck of a challenge for us.