Raiders notes: Jon Gruden and Co. break for summer

Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, center, looks on new players stretching during the Raiders rookie mini-camp at the Raiders headquarters in Alameda, Calif., on Friday, April 24, 2018. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)ALAMEDA — The entire team crowded around kicker Giorgio Tavecchio, chirping and hollering and making obscure noises to generate anything close to a game-like environment.

If Tavecchio made his 53-yarder, the Raiders were off to summer vacation. If not, Gruden barked, practice would start from the beginning.

Luckily for the Raiders their head coach was kidding, because Tavecchio’s first attempt from 53 sailed wide left. His second cruised through the uprights, thus ending the…