Where does head coach Pete Carroll feel this team is after seven weeks in the regular season?

Plus, what is the identity of this team?

That plus more coming up on Tuesday's edition of the Locked On Raiders podcast for October 21st, 2025.

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Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome at Raider Nation to another edition of the Locked On Raiders podcast. Thank you so much for making the show. Your first listen to 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, we appreciate both. The show grows each and every day because of your 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 on Twitter as well at your boy Q254. And if you want to be a part of the show, we've got the Lockdown Raider podcast voicemail line for you. 707 654-4-4693. As you can imagine, we got tons of feedback based off the game on Sunday and the show on Monday. We'll try to get as many calls and text in as possible. Even got a tweet. First-time correspondent, long-time listener, hit me up by way of Twitter, so we'll get that message in as well. So multiple ways to get a hold of the show. We'll hear from you coming up, segment number three. Segment number two, we'll talk about something we talked about with this team for the last handful of years, and that is what is the identity of this team. What is it supposed to be? What does Pete Carroll envision it being? And where is it right now in this stage of the game? We'll talk about that coming up in segment number two. Here is segment number one, news and notes of the day, including hearing from head coach Pete Carroll as we met with him at the Intermountain Health Performance Center on Monday. We'll jump into that after I tell you about the title sponsor of this show, which is Fanduil. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you'll get $300 and bonus bets to use across the app. I'll tell you more about them later on in the show. But off top, let's hear a couple sound bites from head coach Pete Carroll. And the first one is just about the seven weeks of the regular season. The Raiders are two and five. They've been blown out three times so far by hands of the commanders, by hands of the Colts, and obviously, most lately, the Kansas City Chiefs. So what a surprise or stood out to Pete Carroll

the most about the first seven weeks of the season? Yeah, I'm surprised that we're not farther

along than we are. I thought we would be. And I anticipated being farther along and being

cleaner with our game. You know, what I'm trying to show you is that we can play really balanced football,

meaning that all three phases can do their part and give us a chance to play the game

where we're not giving the game away. And early on, we've turned the ball over like crazy,

and kicking game was struggling, and defense was kind of holding it together for us, it seemed. And so the kicking game

has come back around. A couple guys have been switched around, moved around. I think Tom did a nice

job adjusting, and the last couple games have been very solid. You kind of don't even want to know

they're out there, and every once in a while they make a play and that's that's kind of taking place and um

defensively was different yesterday we really missed max max's dynamic play the things that he does

um you know that that that was that was obvious to me but that's coming along offensively now

we've settled down giving the football up and so we now we need to kind of get going again and get moving it and get productive.

Yesterday was a mess of making first downs.

And they did a great job on us.

I really looked at the, we missed some guys out there.

And Jacoby was really important to us, not having them.

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