Greg Papa is the voice of the Raiders gameday broadcast and already the voice of one of the preseason’s strongest statements.

“To me, [Gareon Conley] is the best cornerback on the team, by far,” Papa said Monday on 95.7 The Game. “He’s better than Sean Smith. He’s better than David Amerson mainly because of his change of direction movement skill that you’ve got to have.”

Papa is well-connected within the organization and the Raiders are obviously very high on Conley’s skill set to spend a first-round pick on a player with the legal uncertainty that Conley had at that time.

As for “Papa’s opinions”, they didn’t stop there. The voice of the Oakland Raiders has a theory on the Donald Penn holdout – or specifically who may have pushed Penn into the decision to hold out.

But you heard it over there first.

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