Josh McDaniels Says Chandler Jones’ Stats ‘Will Come’ For Raiders

The biggest splash in the Raiders‘ offseason was the trade to bring in Davante Adams.

But the team also brought in a defensive specialist in Chandler Jones. The former Arizona Cardinals defensive end has racked up 107.5 sacks, 335 tackles and 33 forced fumbles in his career. The only problem, he hasn’t notched a sack or forced fumble in his short time with the Raiders yet.

But, that isn’t deterring coach Josh McDaniels.

“He’s making a lot of plays that don’t show up in the stats. And that’s probably going to be not good enough for everybody to listen to, but he’s making plays in the running game, he drew multiple holding penalties,” McDaniels said. “I mean, there is ways to produce and there is a way to impact the game beyond just the one column that everybody’s looking for.”

The Raiders’ defense hasn’t stood out so far this year but showed up on Sunday. The team recorded three sacks and returned a fumble for a touchdown. But McDaniels pointed out, there were other way Jones and the team made an impact.

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“I thought he and Maxx [Crosby], Clelin [Ferrell], Malcolm [Koonce], Bilal [Nichols] – I thought there was a lot of different things going on up front where we created some negativity offensively for them with some of our effort, the way we were playing. We didn’t always make the tackle. We didn’t always get the sack, or the TFL [tackle for loss], but we created it for somebody else to have it,” McDaniels said. “Chandler is an unselfish guy, and he understands what his role is. Nobody would want to have more of those than Chandler would, but he also is not going to sit here and get frustrated with lack of those production stats. He was in there, Russell [Wilson] felt him some yesterday for sure, and like I said, he drew a few holdings calls that were important in the game. I think impact is sometimes, if you look at it and measure it just by the one column, you can misjudge it a little bit. I like the way he’s playing. I like the effort he’s playing with, and I think those will come.”

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