The Raiders continue to add to Clint Kubiak's coaching staff, and today is the day when the franchise tag can be applied.

That plus more on Tuesday's edition of the Lockdown Raiders podcast from February 17th, 2026.

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707-654-4-4693. A lot of great calls, a lot of great text. We'll try to squeeze in as many as possible as we close out the show as we normally do. Coming up, segment number three. Segment number two, we want to talk about the franchise tag today at 1 p.m. Pacific time, 4 p.m. Eastern is when the franchise tag can be applied, start to be applied.

Now, the Raiders have 25 free agents currently that they'll be addressing and kind of

going up and down the roster with a fine-tooth comb to decide who's coming back and who's not.

Not thinking that they're going to apply the franchise tag on anyone, but there could be some players

around the league that can get the franchise tag put on them, and that could affect the Raiders moving forward. So talk all things. Free agency, franchise tag will do that with the Raiders and across the league coming up in segment number two. Here is segment number one, news and notes of the day, but it all has to do with the Raiders coaching staff as Clint Kubiak is furiously trying to put it together. So the Raiders will continue to make some additions on Monday and made some of the additions that we talked about on Monday show official as well. Robbie Leonard is the defensive coordinator. We've talked about that. Defense passing game coordinator, he stays on with the Raiders is Joe Woods. Safety's coaches Matt Robinson. We talked about him briefly on Monday's show,

but the Raiders made it official with him later on on Monday, and they said that he's been

named the Safeties Coach of the Raiders. Robinson comes to the Raiders after spending the past

five seasons with the Ravens, working with outside linebackers in 2025, and assisting the

defensive line in 2024. In 2023, he was defensive quality control coach after originally joining the Ravens

at 21 as a defensive coaching fellow. Now, remember, Matt Robinson is the one that was leaving

Baltimore, headed to New York Giants, and then decided to join Clint Kubiak with the Raiders. So it

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