No ‘knock’ on Vegas, but HBO not focusing on team’s move 106

Here’s a close look by the numbers at Tuesday’s second episode of HBO’S “Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Oakland Raiders”:

Minutes of discussion about Las Vegas.

Producers made it clear before cameras even started rolling in Napa, California, that the show would document training camp for the final season in Oakland and not spend a lot of time talking about the franchise’s future home.

Still, it’s been stunning to see just how little discussion there has been about the team movin,g aside from the quick Derek Carr answer about living next to Jon Gruden when they eventually move or the occasional passing reference to Las Vegas.

Number of seasons Gruden says it took Sean Mcvay’s Rams to go from a bad team to playing in the Super Bowl.

Gruden is using the Rams as a template for the progress he wants to see out of his team after a disastrous 4-12 season in his first year back on the sidelines.

The portrayal of the relationship between Gruden and Mcvay was one of the highlights of the second episode.

A very young Mcvay was seen in archival footage as a member of Gruden’s staff in Tampa Bay in 2008 looking like he was about 16 years old. Gruden’s voiceover made clear the similarities he saw between himself and Mcvay as young offensive gurus trying to break into the coaching ranks.

It made for intriguing television for all the hardcore coaching nerds out there.

Number of swear words uttered by Gruden in a span of 14 words after a Mike Glennon interception before he had a moment of introspection on the sideline.

“I gotta quit cursing,” Gruden said to nobody in particular.

It’s unclear whether he meant it in general or simply because the cameras are around throughout this training camp. Raw language, however, has been a trademark of the series throughout its run on HBO.

Gruden certainly doesn’t have the dirtiest mouth in the history of the show and it’s not likely he’s going to stop working blue for the sake of the cameras.

An iconic number in Raiders history, currently worn by rookie safety Johnathan

Woodson told Abram to continue to be himself and he can become the kind of leader that can help the Raiders be successful for years to come.

“Once you start slacking off and doing something different, now you’re not true to who you are,” Woodson told Abram. “You’ve got to be you and that’s what brings the best out of everyone else.

You keep doing that and you’ll become a leader of the team very quickly and that’s how you guys are going to win.

“Every day you come out here, get better.” Rookie defensive lineman Maxx Crosby got the number tattooed on his arm to remind himself of where he was selected in the 2019 NFL draft.

Crosby told the story of how he used a fake ID at age 17 to get his first ink and plans to start filling up his whole arm now that he has some money.

The 106 tattoo was made in the fashion of the “100” emoji.