With the Raiders and Rams facing off in three weeks to start the regular season, both teams did not want to play their main starters or give away too much information to each other. Understandable — but it made for one of the weirder games in recent memory when they squared off in a preseason game Saturday in Los Angeles. The Raiders’ offensive execution was downright comical at times.



“We didn’t want to play our starters, we didn’t want them to hear our audibles or hand signals,” Jon Gruden told reporters after the game. “I don’t think they wanted us to get a feel for them either. … It was a strange ballgame in that regard.”



Even so, Gruden probably would have liked better poise and execution on some of the simple things like getting a good snap, which the Raiders failed to do on the first play of the game. Center Jon Feliciano fired the ball high — the first of many bad snaps.



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