{"id":981427,"date":"2026-08-24T00:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T00:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/981427\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T00:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T00:06:17","slug":"training-camp-notebook-8-23-defense-special-teams-working-diligently-to-make-quick-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/981427\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Camp Notebook 8\/23: Defense, special teams working diligently to make quick improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self correction on special teams<\/p>\n<p>After committing multiple special teams penalties against the Texans, Klint Kubiak couldn&#8217;t ignore the concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put it on ourselves as coaches number one, with how we educate them,&#8221; Kubiak said of the penalties Friday, &#8220;what we&#8217;re practicing, what we&#8217;re drilling, and it&#8217;s on us, as coaches, to get it fixed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Practice began with a 25-minute period dedicated solely to special teams. This included punt and kick return blocking drills, as well as specialized work for gunners, with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/team\/players-roster\/malik-benson\/\" title=\"Malik Benson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malik Benson<\/a> taking the majority of reps as the returner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re going to address,&#8221; linebacker Segun Olubi said before practice started. &#8220;Obviously can&#8217;t happen, and we&#8217;re doing everything that we can in practice to make sure that we&#8217;re finishing well on these blocks and that we&#8217;re getting things done the way that they need to get done so that we can move forward and play complementary football.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Self correction on special teams After committing multiple special teams penalties against the Texans, Klint Kubiak couldn&#8217;t ignore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[123190,7,268,269,221,253,2368,47620,31439,6,222],"class_list":["post-981427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-2026-training-camp","tag-football","tag-home-centerpiece","tag-home-latest-stories","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-news-training-camp-notebook","tag-news-training-camp","tag-nfl","tag-texans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117147571576582629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981427","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=981427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}