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Raiders fans Womens Derek Carr Jersey , sign up for FanPulse here!Normally you’d consider a near 80% confidence level to be pretty high. Especially for a team that finished last season 4-12 with fan confidence at the end..."Raiders fans, sign up for FanPulse here!Normally you’d consider a near 80% confidence level to be pretty high. Especially for a team that finished last season 4-12 with fan confidence at the end of the season below 50%. But this is fans we’re talking about here. And the offseason is eternal hope time.When you have as many holes to fill as the Raiders did coming into this offseason, and when you go about filling them, fans get more and more excited. And let’s be honest, the fans were given some reason to be optimistic. Antonio Brown is a big part of that.As of the end of last season, 45% of Raiders fans were confident in the direction of the team via our FanPulse survey. Following free agency with the trade for Antonio Brown, addition of Trent Brown, Tyrell Williams, and Lamarcus Joyner, the confidence level made its largest leap to 77%. Then it dipped back down again for reasons hard to pinpoint. Perhaps it was not signing any pass rushers; the team’s most glaring need.Following the draft, it jumped back up again to 79%. The draft is the cure-all. Every pick is looked at as the answer to the questions, the high picks are instant starters and the low picks are steals.But as much of a jump as 34% is in a few months time for a team that hasn’t played a game, the resulting 79% confidence rate is still middle-of-the-road in the NFL and the lowest in the AFC West. You want to see utterly unrealistic fan support, check out the Broncos fans, whose confidence level at the end of last season was at 28% and is now at 84%; exactly TRIPLE what it was! No team over 75% had a bigger leap.You can see where the biggest jump occurred. It was free agency, when it jumped up to 69%. And what happened in free agency? Joe Flacco happened. That’s all it takes for Broncos fans to lose their minds. Joe. Flacco.Pre-draft, those Broncos fans had a higher confidence level (75%) than Chargers fans (71%). Did I mention the Chargers made the playoffs with twice as many wins as the Broncos (6-10) who are still without a decent starting QB?Both the Chiefs and Chargers finished 12-4 and were playoff teams last season, so their confidence was high and stayed high throughout the offseason. Chargers fans currently have the division’s highest confidence at 88%, up from 76% at the end of last season.Chiefs fans’ confidence actually waned from 94% to 85%. Imagine that. Chiefs fans with their young MVP QB have just a 1% higher confidence level than Broncos fans with.... Joe... Flacco.Ah, the level of bliss that must accompany that much ignorance.Follow @LeviDamien It’s a short week for the Raiders. They are coming off their first preseason game on Saturday and will turn around and play the Cardinals on Thursday. Unlike during the regular season when they..." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesSilver And Black Pride homepageHorizontal - WhiteSilver And Black Pridean Oakland Raiders communityFollow Silver And Black Pride online:Follow Silver And Black Pride on TwitterFollow Silver And Black Pride on FacebookLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchSilver And Black Pride main menuFanpostsFanshotsRaidersOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Raiders StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Raiders NewsYahoo Raiders Team PageYahoo Raiders ReportYahoo Raiders Depth ChartYahoo Raiders TransactionsYahoo Raiders PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕Raiders training camp 2019 day 12 recap: Starters prep for potential play in second preseason game in ArizonaNew,32commentsPDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Raiders training camp 2019 day 12 recap: Starters prep for potential play in second preseason game in ArizonaTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailIt’s a short week for the Raiders. They are coming off their first preseason game on Saturday and will turn around and play the Cardinals on Thursday. Unlike during the regular season when they would try to cram in two or three practices, the Raiders took a day off Sunday, had just a walk-thru on Monday and went with the one practice Tuesday prior to their travel day tomorrow.No veteran starters played in the first preseason game, but that could change when the team heads to Arizona.“[W]e’re going to try to get a couple of starters some work in Arizona,” said Gruden. “We’re still in the process of thinking things through with the Canada trip.”Derek Carr said he won’t know until tomorrow night.“I don’t know. He never tells us until really like the night before, so we’ll see what he says,” Carr said of whether he will play. “He wants us always preparing as if we are playing, but I’m not sure.”For being their only practice in pads, it was a relatively uneventful practice. There wasn’t even the usual large crowd of fans in the stands. Quite a departure from the packed scrimmages last week with the Rams in town. And halfway through the day, they stripped off the pads and went with just jerseys and helmets the rest of the day.The biggest news happened prior to practice with the anticipation that Antonio Brown could make an appearance. He didn’t practice and wasn’t out there for most of the day, showing up near the end so he could speak to the media to give an update on his injury situation.“It’s good to have him back,” said Derek Carr Womens Antonio Brown Jersey , who has only gotten to throw a handful of passes to his top receiver this camp. “Obviously, we are excited to have him and can’t wait for him to suit up and be out there with us, man.”“Well, I think he’s here now, so we’ll be ready to go Week 1. We got a lot of time until then. Obviously short week this week, playing a game on Thursday, but with that said we have so much time to get some game plan plays down, some routes, certain cuts that we are going to have him run and all those kinds of things. We have plenty of time, so the fact that he is here is a good sign. It’s good for us.”Gruden shares Carr’s certainty that Brown will be ready to go by the opener. The question is if he will again suit up and take the field before training camp concludes. After the game on Thursday, the Raiders return to Napa for three more practices on August 17, 18, and 19 and that’s it. They pack up and head back to Alameda for the remainder of their prep for the season which kicks off on September 9.Antonio Brown may be the most famous of the players missing from camp, but he’s certainly not the only one. Starting fullback Keith Smith has been on NFI all of camp. Denzelle Good — who would be starting at guard the first two weeks of the season — is on the PUP list and will probably remain there to begin the season. Eddie Vanderdoes suffered a concussion on the second day of camp and has never returned. At this point you have to wonder if his Raiders career could be over. Gabe Wright has also been out most of camp. He has been working on the side hoping to return soon.Gabe Jackson suffered an injury to his MCL in the final scrimmage practices that will keep him out at least a month into the season. Stepping in with the first team at right guard was veteran Jordan Devey. He has been the primary backup center all camp, but has a lot of experience at right guard as well in his five-year NFL career.Practice started without another player as well — Johnny Townsend. Last year’s 5th round pick was waived this morning after getting thoroughly beaten both in camp and in the team’s first preseason game by undrafted rookie AJ Cole.Catch of the dayTyrell Williams continues to perform like the number one receiver the Raiders wanted him to be during Antonio Brown’s absence. At one point, Williams went up the right sideline and had Daryl Worley with perfect position between him and Derek Carr. Carr threw the pass and Worley looked like he had a sure pick, but Williams just leapt in the air and took the ball away from him. Can’t teach that and there was nothing Worley could have done better than he did.Defensive play of the dayAgain it was Derek Carr dropping back. He turned to his right to throw into the flat, but Devin Lawson came up to bat it into the air, then chased down the ball and intercept it with nothing but open field to the end zone.TransactionsJohnny Townsend’s release was the big one. But not the only one. The team also waived Hamp Cheevers who they had claimed off waivers just yesterday. They instead brought back Markinton Dorleant, who was on the practice squad last season and spent the offseason with the team. They also added free agent Josh Holsey.Injury updatesPJ Hall was back at practice after missing time last week and the preseason game on Saturday. Luke Willson was also back. Newly out was Maxx Crosby, Isaiah Johnson, and Dylan Mabin, all of whom were injured in Saturday’s preseason opener. Johnson suffered a concussion while Crosby suffered a broken hand. He had a cast on his hand/forearm and was working on the side. Mabin’s injury is not known.Still missing were G Gabe Jackson (knee), WR Antonio Brown (feet), LB Kyle Wilber (back), DT Gabe Wright (knee), DT Eddie Vanderdoes (concussion), PUP G Denzelle Good (back), and NFI FB Keith Smith (knee).Correction: Keith Smith was at practice today, coming off NFI. He had been out all of camp with a knee injury.Follow @LeviDamien