Podcast Final Thoughts on 49ers, Looking Ahead

HENDERSON, Nev.--After taking down the San Francisco 49ers in both practice and the 34-7 victory on Sunday, the Las Vegas Raiders already are looking ahead.

Shortly after the game, the Silver and Black flew to Los Angeles for this week's joint practices and game with the Rams on Saturday.

In the latest episode of the Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast, we give our final analysis of the win and look ahead to the Rams this week.

You can watch the entire podcast below:

Additionally, Coach Josh McDaniels spoke today, and you can read all that he said below.

Head Coach Josh McDaniels

Q: I saw that you guys flew out last night wanting to get an early start in California, what was the thought process behind getting out there early? And then also, saw that Dylan Parham left the game yesterday, any kind of an update on Dylan?

Coach McDaniels: "No update on Dylan. The thought process with the logistics here, relative to the mandatory day off and those types of things -- we can't travel on a mandatory day off, so we just thought this is the best thing logistically for us, is to go ahead and travel after the game. And that way we can kind of have our feet on the ground here and not try to do too much the day before we're getting ready to practice with another football team. Meaning, if we take the day off at home Monday, and then try to go over the San Francisco stuff Tuesday at our place, hurry up and kind of cram in something for L.A., and then travel on the same day, then get up and go practice with them. We just didn't feel like that was conducive to giving ourselves the best opportunity to have a productive day. So, we thought this was best."

Q: I mentioned you yesterday in the postgame how you have preached consistency since you got here, and this whole offseason and training camp it's been that. Now, these practices in LA, are they even more important just because the trend is consistent just for you looking for them to stay on that trend of being consistent?

Coach McDaniels: "I don't think it's any more important than any other days. We'd like to continue to improve as a team in each phase, I think that's the most important thing against a good team that's very well coached with different schematic challenges. So, I think our team has been consistent in terms of their approach. Now, we're trying to fine tune some of the details, depending on the phase we're talking about in our game so we can improve. And so, there's a lot of things we saw last night and this morning on the film that we know we can do better, and we're going to need to do better as we go forward. So, we'll be hard at work tomorrow discussing that with our team, and then hopefully we can make some progress here in L.A."

Q: After watching the film, is there anybody who stood out to you maybe you didn't notice on field level but you thought had a good game?

Coach McDaniels: "Not necessarily one specific person or another. I think there were some guys -- like I said after the game, I thought our players played with decent effort and competitiveness throughout. I like that across the board. And I think that we had a number of guys who did some decent things, but I also know that there's enough guys that -- they all played enough plays to be able to go in there and try to make some corrections tomorrow. So, I wouldn't say anybody specifically stood out."

Q: What stood out for you as far as the competition in the wide receiver room?

Coach McDaniels: "They all had opportunities, and each guy did his job generally, made a few plays with that group. We had a couple of other opportunities that we didn't quite come up with. I know Aidan [O'Connell] and Tre [Tucker] had that chance down the sideline to make a kind of a rather big one, and we were close on that. But they competed hard, they blocked hard. I thought they blocked decent for some of our edge stuff that we did in the running game, which was good to see. But much to learn from and much to continue to get better at."

Q: Specifically at right tackle, we saw a good amount of Jemaine Eluemenor and Thayer Munford. I know those are obviously a couple of guys in the mix for the competition at that position. What do you think just kind of overall what you saw from them against the 49ers?

Coach McDaniels: "Yeah, both of them did some good things. I thought both of them were challenged. Like I said, this is a really good front, so they got a decent chunk during the week and then each of them had a handful of drives yesterday in the game too. So, some good, some positive, and then a few things that I think our entire tackle group can learn from relative to playing that style of defense. So, I'm pleased with the way they're going about it, they're competing hard. I think they're making one another better, that whole group, and look forward to seeing the challenges that we're going to see this week too."

Q: Culture building takes time, but obviously necessary to build the winning culture that you guys want in the organization. Can you talk about the evolution of where you're at now versus last season in establishing kind of the standards of performance that you have for both the players and your coaching staff?

Coach McDaniels: "Yeah, I think there's a process to that, and when you change things in an organization, and there's always a new vision or a way of doing things that takes a little time of getting used to in terms of kind of perfecting the detail and execution of whatever phase of it it might be, whether that's off the field, on the field, in the offseason, during the season, whatever it might be. So, I think yesterday was a different feeling relative to last year's first game. Last year's first game was the first time for all of us together, so we were, again, trying to get used to it and those things are things that hopefully we've improved on as the year went on last year and obviously through the offseason and into this year…"

The Silver and Black return to preseason action when they play the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 19, at 9 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. PDT.

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