Watch: Raiders Defensive Coordinator Patrick Graham Previews Week 1

Graham spoke before practice.

You can watch the entire interview below:

Following practice, Pete Carroll spoke to the media. We have a partial transcript below.

Q: You've been obviously doing this a long time, a lot of season openers, but does it ever lose any of its specialness to you? 

Head Coach Pete Carroll: "No. Not one bit. Maybe more appreciation than ever." 

Q: There's a lot of changes on New England's side, a lot of changes on your side. How much is Week 1 about preparation versus making the adjustments after the game starts? 

Coach Carroll: "That's not a good one to equate here to me. Everything's crucial. We all started at the same time. We'll see how we did as coaches. We'll see how we do as players when we get to performance time. Always in games, it's about making the right adjustments and staying ahead of it if you can, and heading things off before they happen. And then also responding to the bad stuff that happens. So that's crucial." 

Q: What jumps out when looking at the tape of New England? 

Coach Carroll: " They're physical like you would think. Josh [McDaniels] has run the ball a lot in his history, and Mike Vrabel wants to run the football, too. They're very physical about it. The running backs run really hard, and they have, like Josh has traditionally had, a really downhill attack. It's pretty classic, and it's really good." 

Q: Talking about that rushing attack, how much you have to prepare for also Drake Maye who also is a dual threat quarterback himself? 

Coach Carroll: "It's absolutely in the middle of the preparation because he is so apt. He ran for almost 500 yards last year, and I think our numbers were like he's the second most scrambling guy last year. We know that he can take off and run, and he can make things happen. And he did it in preseason, and he made it look easy. So that's a big factor in their favor as a running team as well. It's even more important."