Raiders Not Panicking About Preseason Slow Starts

The Las Vegas Raiders will soon have to make some tough decisions on who will make the final 53-man roster and who they will cut. The Silver and Black have been hard at work all offseason long from OTAs, minicamps, and now training camp. Head coach Pete Carroll has seen what he wanted to see, and that is his players competing. Carroll is enjoying that, and he is getting a lot out of his players in the first two preseason games.

The Raiders have played their starters in the first two games of the preseason, and they looked so much better this past weekend in the second preseason game than in the first preseason game. That was a good sign to see from the Silver and Black. Now they will try to get that for the rest of training camp and continue to improve as they go into the regular season.

But there was one concern coming out of the second preseason game. It was the play of the backup players. The second and third string players did not have a good showing for the Raiders. That can cause a lot of worries for the depth of the team. In the NFL, it is not easy to keep your team fully healthy for the whole season. At times, you are going to call up your backup players to set up. And sometimes it is the next man up mentally.

But Carroll is not worried about his depth players play. He thinks it is going to work out in the end, and they will continue to improve.

Our Hondo Carpenter talked about the Raiders depth on a recent episode of the "Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast."

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