Raiders report: Punter AJ Cole a Christmas ‘trendsetter’

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Raiders report

Schedule

All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:

Thursday — Walkthrough, 11 a.m

Friday — Practice, 11 a.m

Saturday — Off

Sunday — vs. Denver Broncos, Allegiant Stadium, 1:30 p.m.

Monday — Rich Bisaccia quality conference, 1 p.m.

Quote of the Day

It has go trendy to notation to “Die Hard” arsenic a Christmas movie and adjacent to invoke the Bruce Willis enactment movie erstwhile discussing favourite vacation films.

Raiders’ punter AJ Cole believes his household was up of the curve.

“It benignant of became cliche to accidental that ‘Die Hard’ is your favourite Christmas movie, truthful I hatred that,” the AFC Pro Bowler said. “I consciousness similar I was excessively aboriginal for my clip connected that one. Me and my household each twelvemonth connected Christmas Eve, we spell to religion and past ticker ‘Die Hard.’ We’ve been doing that for a agelong time. At immoderate constituent the mainstream caught up with us, but I deliberation we were the trendsetters.”

He did connection a database of much accepted honorable notation selections, including “Grinch,” “Elf,” and “A Christmas Story.”

Injury report

Safety Johnathan Abram, who volition acquisition country connected a dislocated near enarthrosis connected Thursday and miss the remainder of the season, was 1 of 7 Raiders who didn’t enactment successful Wednesday’s walk-through.

It was an estimated wounded study due to the fact that it wasn’t a ceremonial practice.

Star choky extremity Darren Waller drew a non-participation designation with the genu and backmost injuries that person kept him retired of the past 3 games. Leading tackler Denzel Perryman, who has missed the past 2 games with an ankle injury, remained out.

Perryman did bespeak helium is feeling amended and whitethorn beryllium backmost soon.

“It’s each a enactment successful progress,” helium said. “Getting amended time by day. We’ll spot however it feels with different week.”

Linebacker Will Compton has not returned aft leaving the squad implicit the play owed to the decease of his mother.

Running backmost Josh Jacobs was retired owed to illness, antiaircraft tackle Johnathan Hankins with a backmost wounded and wide receiver Zay Jones with a toed issue.

Linebacker Divine Deablo (shoulder/arm), choky ends Daniel Helm (knee) and Foster Moreau (abdomen/thigh), arsenic good arsenic tackle Brandon Parker (knee) were each constricted participants.

Cornerback Casey Hayward (Achilles), antiaircraft extremity Carl Nassib (knee) and defender John Simpson (knee) were each afloat participants.

Transaction

Cornerback Brandon Facyson was added to the reserve/COVID-19 database connected Wednesday.

He joins chap cornerback Nate Hobbs arsenic the lone Raiders’ players presently connected the database arsenic overmuch of the league endures an outbreak.

Perryman honored

Perryman wasn’t definite what to deliberation erstwhile helium saw an incoming FaceTime telephone from manager Rich Bisaccia look connected his telephone soon earlier crippled clip connected Monday.

He was adjacent much confused erstwhile helium saw the faces of Bisaccia, antiaircraft coordinator Gus Bradley and linebackers manager Richard Smith each connected the surface upon accepting the call.

Perryman was location successful Las Vegas recovering from an ankle wounded getting acceptable to ticker his teammates play the Browns connected television, but the coaches were calling to pass him helium had been selected to the Pro Bowl.

“My eyes conscionable opened up,” helium said. “It inactive hasn’t deed maine yet, but it’s a bully feeling. To beryllium recognized by my peers, it means a lot. Not excessively galore radical get that selection.”

It’s Perryman’s archetypal enactment successful his seven-year career. As acold arsenic helium knows, it was his archetypal clip adjacent connected the ballot.

“Everybody works hard. You don’t bash that conscionable for the Pro Bowl,” helium said. “But it’s thing that feels good. It’s an honor.” The 29-year-old is inactive 5th successful the league successful tackles contempt missing the past 2 games.

Adam Hill Las Vegas Review-Journal

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