The Oakland Raiders concluded their mandatory minicamp with a single practice today. The practices gota bit more physical including a scrum involving Kirk Morrison and Cooper Carlisle. Darrius Heyward-Bey missed his second practice session in a row with soreness and cramps. Mike Mitchell was hold out for the same reason, in what Coach Tom Cable termed percautionary measures.
This practice was more uptempo than the past practices, but were quite sloppy. There was another botched center exchange and countless penalties that would have been called.
Javon Walker didn't even don a uniform for the the second straight day. Burgess missed the entire camp with a case of the stomach flu. Louis Murphy, Heyward-Bey, Mitchell, and Warren were all held out of practice today.
NOTES:
* The offensive tackles held on numerous occasions.
* The defensive line kept jumping offsides.
* Higgins was seen geting stretched out, but kept working throughout practice.
* Trevor Scott and Jay Richardson both would have had sacks, if the team would have been keeping track of such things.
* JaMarcus Russell started with a hot streak, but once it got to 11 on 11 drills, where he was getting pressure he was erratic again.
QUOTES:
* Unknown coach, "You practice like you play"
* Unknown coach, "Use your eyes!"
* John Bowie was lagging on the way back to the huddle, and was chided by a teammate, "Hey John, come on man!"
* Tom Cable late in practice, "Its the 4th quarter!"
