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Las Vegas Raiders made the right call bringing in Rod Marinelli

One of the standouts from the 2019 Hard Knocks season featuring the then Oakland Raiders was defensive line coach Brentson Buckner because of his one liners and engaging attitude, especially with the younger players. It turns out that in addition to being great on camera, Buckner was pretty good at this day job as well.

The Raiders had an embarrassingly bad pass rush in 2018 and Buckner, along with a slew of young d-lineman, was tasked with making major improvements and he did just that. Bucker and co went from just 13 sacks in 2018 to 32 in 2019 and from giving up 380 yards per game to a more respectable 354.