Raiders Use Huge Lead To Give All Players A Chance To Play

After close losses the Raiders were happy with their point scoring on Saturday evening.

“They played hard this game. We had a lot of bodies go down but they played hard. They came out to play. They put up a lot of points,” Zach Klyne head coach of the Raiders said.

The Raiders would go on to win the game 72 - 12.

Asked if the large point scoring allowed the Raiders opportunities to run plays that they usually wouldn’t be able to.

Klyne said the days do not allow for it to happen because other teams would watch the film and be able to see what sort of plays the Raiders have made up.

Raiders used their time and extra points to “explore exactly where the team was on a point basis.

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In fact, the Raiders do not like to perform many of their new place in front of the cameras because opponents can then call up the tape and have an idea what the team is up io.

The Raiders were call up tape from other games so they can learn about their own players and where their mistakes me be from.

“We don’t want to put anything fancy on film for other teams to see,” Klyne said.

During Saturday evening’s game, the offence were split into at halftime. This was to allow all of the players, the opportunity to touch the ball and actually play..

The move is done in anticipation of the upcoming playoffs, and then having all players have some experience for when the playoffs kickoff.

If players have experienced some sort, it helps in case there’s an injury and they have to replace a person on the fly.

“ Everybody gets to touch the ball with the goal of the game.”

“We sent Group A and Group B out the same amount of time just to make sure each group got the same amount of time,” Klyne said.

“We knew we had the game in hand, but we just wanted to make sure everybody got a chance to get on the field.”

Klyne said the the team did this this way due to playoffs and getting players ready to play.

“It’s the next man down mentality. Got some reps in the game is better than practice,” he said.

Also at halftime, the Raiders had to make some changes and drill the players because they had given up a touchdown in the first half because they didn’t have enough players on the field.

The aim was to eliminate the mental mistakes that had been occurring in the game.

There was some mistakes on special teams where players were unaware where they should be.

“Overall I’m happy with the team. We scored a lot of points and the defence worked really well.”