Sam Warren

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Sam Warren @samwarren83 Apr 6

News: I’m joining @TheAthletic as a staff writer covering the Raiders.

Working for The Athletic was a career goal, and earning this opportunity is surreal. Thank you to all who helped make this dream a reality.

My first day is Monday. Raider Nation, I can’t wait to get to work!

Sam Warren @samwarren83 5h

Raiders-Seahawks injury report for Thursday.

Another limited day at practice for Trey Zuhn.

Sam Warren @samwarren83 7h

Raiders DC Rob Leonard on Klint Kubiak publicly supporting him this week:

"It means a lot. Not too many people in this profession do things like that. It's early in the season, and I can't tell you how much respect I have for Klint Kubiak-- as a man first, as a coach second. We share a lot of same values of transparency, honesty, straight to the point. It was very humbling."

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Raiders HC Klint Kubiak's full response when asked if he's anticipating making significant changes on defense:

"No, I don't. In fact, I see us doing the things we said we were gonna do better. Stand behind (DC) Rob (Leonard), stand behind our defensive staff, stand behind our players. I think the world wants someone's head on a platter every time things don't go right. But the way I see it is we brought people here for a reason; to get a job done and develop players for the long haul. And that's where we're going."
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Leonard on what's disrupting the Raiders defensive consistency right now:

"When you're stacking inconsistent plays it's always multiple things. But I'd say fatigue makes cowards of us all. When you're on the field a long time mistakes tend to happen more often. I'm just going to put it that way."

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Raiders DC Rob Leonard on how he keeps his faith in his plan and process when results haven't been showing up:

"I talk to the staff about this all the time. What we wanna do, how we wanna do it, there's evidence of us doing it. We obviously have to do it more consistently. There's a weight that you feel that you carry that, especially when the offense is scoring, that we need to do our part. That doesn't feel great for me personally and I know collectively as a defense. And we're very transparent about that. We've got to do our part, we have to show improvement. And I'd argue that there have been times during the year that we've played really, really good football. So, we've got to be more consistent."
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Sam Warren @samwarren83 8h

Raiders DC Rob Leonard on how he keeps his faith in his plan and process when results haven't been showing up:

"I talk to the staff about this all the time. What we wanna do, how we wanna do it, there's evidence of us doing it. We obviously have to do it more consistently. There's a weight that you feel that you carry that, especially when the offense is scoring, that we need to do our part. That doesn't feel great for me personally and I know collectively as a defense. And we're very transparent about that. We've got to do our part, we have to show improvement. And I'd argue that there have been times during the year that we've played really, really good football. So, we've got to be more consistent."