{"id":864015,"date":"2026-04-11T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/864015\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:33:29","slug":"the-raiders-are-determined-to-stick-to-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/864015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raiders Are Determined to Stick to the Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> As the NFL Draft continues to approach, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/las_vegas_raiders\/43\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> are moving right along. The Raiders have quickly improved their roster and will soon add quarterback Fernando Mendoza, along with nine additional draft picks. The Raiders&#8217; entire draft class will be important, but Mendoza will lead the way. <\/p>\n<p> Still, the Raiders have a plan and have shown this offseason that they will stick to it. As of now, that plan is to start veteran quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/kirk_cousins\/198941\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirk Cousins<\/a> in Week 1 of the upcoming season. They are betting on Cousins being serviceable, at the very least, for a few games, if not more.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the NFL Draft continues to approach, the Las Vegas Raiders are moving right along. The Raiders have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-864015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-las-vegas","10":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","11":"tag-lasvegas","12":"tag-lasvegasraiders","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116386568823390729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}