As Raiders training camp is nearing an end, how is head coach Pete Carroll feeling about certain players and position groups?

Plus, who's going to be that big impact player on defense across from Max Crosby?

That plus more on Thursday's edition of the Locked On Raiders podcast for August 21st, 2025.

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Welcome in Raider Nation to another edition of the Locked-on Raiders podcast.

Thank you so much for making the show.

Your first listen of the day, we definitely appreciate you if you're catching the show wherever you find your favorite podcast or you're checking us out by way of the YouTube page.

You know we appreciate both. Show continues to grow each and every day because of your consistent support and the great job that my man Ari does behind the scenes making sure we look good and sound good each and every day so we shout him out we appreciate him he's on Twitter at Ari Produces you can hit me up as well at your boy Q254 and if you want you want to be a part of the show, we've got the Lockdown Raider

podcast voicemail line 707-654-4-4693.

As you can imagine, a lot of great feedback, calls, texts, all from you, Raider Nation.

We'll get as much in as possible as we close out the show coming up in segment number three.

Segment number two, want to focus in on the Raiders defense, and we know what Max Crosby brings to the table, right? When healthy, we know who he is. First time in his career, he ever missed some games was last year due to injury. So that's not something that we could say, well, if Max is healthy, we know Max is going to be healthy, we know what he brings to the table. But who's going to be the other guy, right? Who's going to be that other big impactful player on the Raiders defense? We'll talk about that coming up in segment number two, hearing segment number one news and notes of the day. And a lot of it has to do with hearing from head coach, Pete Carroll, as he met with us at the Intermountain Health Performance Center after practice on Wednesday. We'll jump right into that after I tell you about the title sponsor of the show, and that's Fandual. Football season, it's right around the corner. Visit the Fandual app today and start planning your futures bets now. Before we get in anything, hit coach Pete Carroll, I did want to celebrate this show. I wanted to celebrate Raider Nation, and the Lockdown Podcast Network actually celebrated me on Wednesday, and I saw this by way of Twitter. Didn't really realize. I knew that the date was coming up pretty soon. I knew that it was the anniversary of, you know, the time that I've been doing this show. Didn't realize how long it was because, well, time just happens to fly when you're having fun. And trust and believe, we have a lot of fun here on the Locked On Raiders podcast. But they tweeted out on Wednesday morning. Congratulations to Lockdown Raiders host, your boy, Q, who just hit seven years with Locked On. So pretty incredible. Seven years. And anyone who's been in this kind of field or, you know, first of all, been listening to me for that long of a time, definitely appreciate you, but, you know, radio, podcast, any kind of

field like this entertainment, seven years is like a lifetime, right? So to know that this show

has gone seven years long, seven years strong is fantastic. Got a couple of tweets, and I got a ton

of great tweets. Matter of fact, over 60 comments, over 500 likes, right?

I just quote tweeted it and said, man, seven years, great team, great teammate.

It's been a lot of fun.

But my guy, Tom Kennedy, he was actually my number one caller, the very first caller I ever

had for segment number three, the Lockdown Raider podcast voicemail line, Tom, so he tweeted, he said,

it's caller number one.

I've enjoyed every episode

and look forward to seven more years, though I think bigger and better things are in store for Q in the future. Congrats. And then Vader Raider in the 303, he's been rocking with me since day one. He said, congratulations, Q. So proud to say that I've been along for this ride like many others.

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