{"id":66753,"date":"2019-06-11T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=66753"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:16:40","slug":"oakland-raiders-selected-for-hard-knocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/06\/11\/oakland-raiders-selected-for-hard-knocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Raiders Selected for Hard Knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the official NFL.com Twitter account, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Raiders<\/a> will be featured on this years&#8217; installment of HBO&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Hard Knocks<\/em>. Hard Knocks is an HBO exclusive which goes behind the scenes to record the events of training camp and the preseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HardKnocks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HardKnocks<\/a> with the Oakland <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raiders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Raiders<\/a> \u2620\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HBO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@HBO<\/a> on August 6! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DsiOG9LT8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DsiOG9LT8s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1138579722349228032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Oakland Raiders to Star in Hard Knocks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Raiders were the easy choice for the position, as no other eligible roster in the league comes close to boasting as many storylines. Head coach\u00a0<strong>Jon Gruden\u00a0<\/strong>always makes for great TV and Oakland also made one of the biggest splash signings in the league with the addition of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=BrowAn04,BrowAn01&amp;search=Antonio+Brown&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown<\/a><\/strong>. Seeing how Brown interacts with his new teammates, including quarterback\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CarrDe02.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Carr<\/a><\/strong> and linebacker\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BurfVo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vontaze Burfict<\/a><\/strong>, should make for fascinating television. Additionally, the Raiders also have the controversial\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/I\/IncoRi20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richie Incognito<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders didn&#8217;t volunteer for the honor, but they don&#8217;t have the option to refuse. NFL teams are exempt from Hard Knocks if they made the playoffs if the last two years, if they have a first-year head coach, or if they have partaken in the series over the last 10 years. The Raiders don&#8217;t meet any of these requirements, so they will be featured on this year&#8217;s installment.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Knocks originally debuted in 2001 with the Baltimore Ravens. The series followed the 2002 Dallas Cowboys before taking a slight hiatus until 2007. Since returning to airwaves, Hard Knocks has covered the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns earned the most recent honor in 2018. Coming off the heels of an 0-16 season, Hard Knocks followed then-head coach\u00a0<strong>Hue Jackson<\/strong> and offensive coordinator\u00a0<strong>Todd Haley<\/strong> throughout the off-season. Notable scenes from last season include Jackson trading\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/ColeCo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corey Coleman<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and the excitement regarding the return of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GordJo02.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Gordon<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"CwGACubURA1IOPliLnTWwA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1074741748\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'CwGACubURA1IOPliLnTWwA',sig:'Qwa3s7h2RZ8Sevm3-nsefujgRyifIrxNnJMJ-Zpi4RY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1074741748',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NFL.com Twitter page, the Oakland Raiders will star in the latest installment of HBO&#8217;s Hard Knocks television series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":66754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,17,36],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-66753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","category-raiders","category-nfl-news","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}