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What up, Raider Nation.

Welcome into another episode of the Locked-on Raiders podcast on this Friday, August 23rd, 2019.

Your boy, Q here with you as always.

You know, you can find me on Twitter at your boy Q254.

And we're coming to you a day after the Raiders third preseason game played in Canada, Winnipeg, and of course it's

supposed to be the dress rehearsal game for all NFL teams. But as I mentioned on Thursday's

episode, a lot of teams are going away from that. And due to a lot of different field conditions, due to a lot of different issues going on, the Raiders were no different.

They were one of those teams that did not go through with the dress rehearsal because there was so many things going on.

If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I was not a big fan of the Thursday night preseason game,

game number three against the Green Bay Packers, just wasn't. I was looking forward to a lot of

different things. I wanted to look to see a different thing, you know, different guys and see

how they were playing in preseason game number three. But honestly, when you have an 80-yard field,

just because the field conditions are bad, how can

you even really take that seriously?

How can you take it seriously?

This is a game played on a hundred-yard field, and they played it on an 80-yard field.

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