Raiders Ziegler Roster Moves: Signs Two, Cuts Two

Dave Ziegler said of his approach to free agency earlier this year that, “Well, I think that you can develop your philosophy before free agency starts. Now, sometimes that plan doesn't work out just based on how the market materializes and things of that nature. We're always going to have a group of players I would say in free agency that you just know based on what the market is and what conversations are, if you want to get that player, you're going to have to do that in the first couple of days of free agency. And then there's going to be another pool of players that you're going to make the decision on like this position group or this player, whatever it may be, we're going to wait. You know, we're going to sit and wait and see how the market materializes. And I think that is predicated on maybe the depth of that position and that may be predicated on what the surplus and demand in the draft at that certain position is. So, I think there's a few different variables that go into making that decision. But yeah, there's situations where there's probably, I think, unless you're planning on sitting free agency out and you just go in with that mindset, there's always going to be a player or two that you know that if you're going to do a deal, you're going to have to do that on the front side of free agency and there'll be some players like that this year also.”

The Silver and Black open the preseason by hosting the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Aug. 13, at 4 p.m. EDT/1 p.m. PDT.

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