Raiders CB Eric Stokes Presser Mastering Press Coverage & Team Chemistry

Sun, Aug 23, 2026

Video Transcript

How different do you feel right now than you did exactly?

Uh, I feel way better.

I just feel more confidence into every little thing, into the scheme, into how I feel, into everything to where it's not so much in my head, it's just so much I just gotta go out there and do it now.

I feel like, hey, I ain't thinking too much about anything.

You just go out.

I do what I know I can do and continue to grow from that.

Find little mistakes in the game.

Go back, watch practice and everything, and continue to try to get in.

What do you think is the biggest the improvement you've made, you know, over this offseason throughout camp just in terms of your personal game?

Um, my personal game, I personally, I love press, so y'all know me, I love being pressed up man.

All that stuff, so just finding little new ways to go ahead and, uh, be a better president like even with my kick steps and all that stuff to get a better kick on some of my releases, being at a 45 angle, cutting off the angle and some of the inside releases.

So that's one of the biggest things that I try hard on myself.

On in break and just be closer to the man, stop, don't, and don't grab, do all these little small little things where it just constant.

Part of myself with those two linebackers, you know, Quaye, you know, playing with them, is it one of those things where they just feel like muscle memory where it just came back just like that, or was it kind of an adjustment period you had to make?

Uh, it was adjustment period, adjustment period just by playing with them two again, by just having.

Connection and all that stuff with them as well like they say little things and I'd be like, ah, I remember this and all this stuff, or like we go ahead and talk off each other and be like, nah, you know I'm gonna be here and all this stuff for this.

So just bouncing knowledge off of each other or even when I'm confused on some of the little things or like with run gaps and all that stuff, I know I can easily talk to Corey.

I can easily talk to Kobe.

We could easily be somewhere and we could just talk ball.

Like we could just be outside the facility just talking ball and it's all, and it's all good.

So that's the one little thing that I absolutely love about it.