There is no receiver’s mix tape or any other background noise at the Raiders’ organized team activities this year, but if you watch defensive coordinator Paul Guenther work with his players the last few weeks, you can almost hear the classical music.



Guenther stands in front of a handful of overturned garbage cans — yeah, offensive linemen, that’s what defensive guys think of you — and directs his players like a conductor would his orchestra. The hands constantly moving, with him telling a linebacker that he turned too soon or a defensive back that he is in the wrong place based on the offensive formation called out.



Guenther will then also station himself behind the secondary and direct traffic from there.



“New staff, new players, new scheme,” Guenther said last week at the team facility. “Just trying to get all three levels of the defense seeing it through the same eyes. The guys have been picking it up...