The Las Vegas Raiders are in the midst of their fifth week of training camp and are preparing to host the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium on Friday in the last exhibition of this season.
Silver and Black Coach Antonio Pierce has announced that Gardner Minshew is the team’s starting quarterback, and the team is moving on.
Moments ago, before the last practice of the week, Antonio Pierce spoke about the state of Raider Nation from Raiders Training Camp.
Opening Statement: “I’m going to go ahead and start off, Gardner Minshew is going to be the starting quarterback this 2024 season. Myself, [Tom] Telesco, and Luke Getsy discussed it this morning. A lot of things went into it. It wasn’t based off the last night. There’s a lot of factors, so we feel like Gardner gives us the best opportunity to get off to a fast start, and that’s what we’re going with. We support him, our teams behind it, our staff behind it, organizations behind it.”
Coach Pierce: “Experience, the operation, the processing. The same thing we saw in practice, some of it showed up in the games. A lot ofstuff we can get better at. I don’t think anything here is a finished product but based off the first quarter of the season, we feel like Gardner [Minshew] gives us the best opportunity.”
Q: After you watched the film and have now sat here after two games, can you discuss with us your thoughts on your offensive line? Obviously, no Kolton Miller, but I’m just curious about your thoughts on the development of your offensive line.Coach Pierce: “I thought last night, the protection was pretty, pretty good. I mean, the quarterback was clean for most of the part, I think we gave up a sack. I think what you’re seeing with [Thayer] Munford and DJ [Glaze], you see two guys that’s really battling and competing. Really appreciate the two veterans that we have there, [Andrus] Peat, [Cody] Whitehair, and Andre James has been a true anchor and just a veteran presence for us. But credit to James Cregg and Joe Philbin, they’ve done an outstanding job of just developing those guys. At times, it’s not always perfect, especially when you get those younger guys in here, man, but the mentality isthere to finish, the strain, we’re getting better and better each and every week, and you see some of our younger guys develop.”
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