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Just win. Just win. The autumn wind is a pirate blustering in from sea to the rollicking song he sweeps along, swaggering, voicelessly.

His face is weather-beaten.

He wears a hooded sash, with a silver hat about his head, and a bristling black mustache.

He growls as he storms the country, a villain big and bow.

And the trees all shake and quiver and quake as he robs them of their gold.

The autumn wind is a raider, pillaging just for fun.

He'll knock you round and upside down and laugh when he's conquered.

What's up, Raider Nation?

Welcome into another episode of the Locked-on Raiders podcast on this Tuesday, July 30th,

2019.

Got your boy Q here with you, as always, holding it down.

And yeah, first day of training camp, as far as padded practice goes, was on Monday.

And it was a go. It was an absolute go. A lot of it was on NFL Network. I was able to watch a lot of it since I'm on vacation from ESPN, Central Texas.

Still holding down the podcast, as always, but on vacation from ESPN, Central Texas. So I sat on my couch and I watched NFL Network all day on Monday, watch Mike Mayock talk

to Steve Mariucci, watch them talk to John Gruden, watch him talk to Derek Carr, watch

him talk to a lot of the Raider players.

It was really a pretty cool thing.

And that all happened on NFL Network on Monday.

David Carr was obviously in attendance as well.

And like I said,

talk to all the players, talk to the coaches, talk to the GM. Pretty sticking cool. And that's the way to kick off my Monday. So that's how that all shook out. That was the first day of padded

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