While he was short on details, Raiders coach Josh McDaniels labeled Chandler Jones' absence a 'private matter' a day after the defensive end's tirade on Twitter aimed at the team.
Told that Jones, a team captain and team leader, potentially missing the game is related to the game, McDaniels said Jones was not a team captain.
"So it is what it is," McDaniels said."Like I said, we're dealing with it internally. We've dealt with it but we're not going to get into this." Jones, 33, is entering his 12th NFL season, the second year of the three-year, $51 million free-agent contract he signed with Las Vegas in 2022 and he took to social media Tuesday morning to say he no longer wanted to play with the Raiders after allegedly not being allowed into the team's facility to work out over the Labor Day holiday weekend.
"F--- IT. I DON'T WANNA PLAY FOR THE RAIDERS IF THAT'S MY HC, OR GM...I WANT PATRICK GRAHAM IVY LEAGUE N---A," Jones posted on his since-deleted Instagram story, referencing Graham, the Raiders' Yale-educated defensive coordinator.
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