Raiders beat: Oakland to face Seattle in London next season.
The Raiders will return to London next fall, playing Seattle on Oct. 14 in the stadium of soccer team Tottenham Hotspur.
The announcement came in a statement from NFL UK.
It will be the Raiders’ fourth international game in five years. The Raiders lost 38-14 to the Dolphins at London’s Wembley Stadium in 2014. They’ve also played at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium in each of the past two seasons, beating the Texans in 2016 and losing to the Patriots this season.
The Raiders were the designated “home” team in each of those games and will be giving up another home game this time in one of their final seasons in Oakland before the franchise’s move to Las Vegas.
“The Raiders are a truly global brand and we look forward to hosting the first NFL game in Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium,” owner Mark
Davis said in a statement. The Tottenham stadium is under construction, according to its Twitter page, and is scheduled to open this summer. According to an NFL release, the stadium will have a retractable grass field with an artificial surface underneath that will be used for NFL games.
Though other dates have yet to be set, the Raiders do know their full slate of opponents for 2018.
Their home games (at the Coliseum) will be against the other three AFC West teams and the Browns, Colts, Rams and Steelers. They will go on the road to play the AFC West, Bengals, Cardinals, Dolphins, Ravens and 49ers. New faces: According to reports Thursday, new head coach Jon Gruden is expected to add two assistants to his coaching staff: Derrick Ansley as defensive backs coach and Jemal Singleton as running backs coach.
Ansley’s hire first was reported by Football Scoop and later by ESPN. The defensive backs coach for national champion Alabama this past season, Ansley reportedly had accepted an offer from Colorado State to become its defensive coordinator but would leave that job to join Gruden in Oakland. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported the Raiders’ offer to Singleton, who spent the past two seasons as running backs coach in Indianapolis. Singleton spent 13 years before that coaching at the college level, with stops at Arkansas, Oklahoma State and his alma mater, Air Force.