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Training Camp – Day 8 quick hits

Thoughts from the Dark Side

You probably already know what the biggest challenge is when covering the Raiders. You’ve heard about it from other reporters and sites, but I’ll say it again so that we are all clear — they aren’t forthcoming when it comes to news.

So, at the start of each practice, a group of us do a check-off of who’s at practice so that we can figure out who isn’t.

After going through the list for over 10 minutes, we found that we couldn’t find Derrick Burgess (who is still holding out), Mark Wilson (who apparently missed practice due to a lower back stiffness), Khalif Barnes (who I had found out had a broken left ankle right before practice — from a report on a site that isn’t in camp), Robert Gallery (who was later seen coming out of the weight room after practice), and Javon Walker (who is still rehabbing the mysterious operation he had this offseason, and seen later on the practice field).

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