The Raiders were back in the lab as they prepared for the season finale week 18

versus the Kansas City Chiefs and head coach Pete Carroll.

Sounds very confident that he'll be back in 2026.

That plus more on Thursday's edition of the Locked on Raiders podcast for January 1st,

2026.

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and the great job that my man Ari does behind the scenes, making sure we look good and sound good by way of the YouTube page. We shout him out. We appreciate him just like we shout you out and appreciate you, Raider Nation. So if you're looking for Ari, he's on Twitter at Ari Producers. You can hit me up as well at your boy Q254. And if you want to be a part of the show,

you can always hit the Lockdown Raider podcast voicemail line 707-654-4-4693. Normally on Thursdays, we don't have calls or texts. It's crossover Thursday. So the next opponent up on the schedule, myself and that host, we talk about storylines. We talk about matchups and keys to victory, path to victory,

whatever you want to call it.

I reached out to the guys from the Can Sea Chiefs or at least one of them, Chris Clark, who always joins me, and I didn't hear back from him. So not too sure what was going on, but I know it's week 18, the Chiefs were out of it, the Raiders were out of it. So maybe it was something that he just got caught up

and wasn't able to be a part of the show or whatever.

So that's okay.

Not a problem.

We keep the party rolling around here, right? I mean, you know, the best plan is the one that's able to be adjusted. And this plan could definitely adjust. So we will have your calls and texts coming up in segment number three as we normally do. Segment number two, we'll talk about and hear from head coach Pete Carroll as he met with us on Wednesday. And one of my biggest takeaways when I walked away

from the podium was, man, Pete Carroll sounds very, very confident that he'll be back in 2026. He didn't

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