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NAPA — Eddy Pineiro learned all he could from Giorgio Tavecchio.
Now he’s doing the same with Mike Nugent.
Pineiro was the presumptive favorite to be the Raiders place kicker the moment the Raiders gave him a $25,000 signing bonus to sign as a free agent after he went undrafted.
He and Tavecchio worked together through the off-season, organized team activities and minicamps and seemed genuinely supportive of each other.
Citing the preference to have two right-footed kickers to streamline the snap-spot-kick process, and the hope that Tavecchio would have more time to catch on elsewhere, the Raiders released their leading scorer from a year ago.