After a day off Tuesday, Raiders players will sit down in the auditorium at their facility Wednesday morning and listen to coach Jon Gruden. He will address the team’s Monday trade of receiver Amari Cooper, but there are a few other things he might want to bring up.



Many of the players I have talked to in the last couple of days question the coach’s “accountability.” While the trades of young Pro Bowlers Khalil Mack and Amari Cooper were jarring in and of themselves, it was the way they were handled that is bothering veteran players.



“When what you say and what you do are two different things, there is a problem,” one player, who requested anonymity, said. “We all have to believe in each other and pull in one direction.”



Take the Cooper trade. Eight days after Gruden said he wasn’t shopping Cooper, the receiver was traded to the Cowboys for a first-round pick. This also after Gruden repeatedly...