ALAMEDA – Zay Jones has spent the last two weeks in a small, small world. He goes from the Raiders training facility to a nearby hotel and back again, intently focused on mastering Jon Gruden’s complex offense.
Most members of the Silver and Black learn it over time during spring and summer, a great distance from the regular season’s do-or-die existence. Jones is learning on the fly after being acquired in a trade from the Buffalo Bills two-plus weeks ago, without time to do or think about much else.
“I think sometimes people can forget about the transition that comes with a trade,” Jones said on this week’s Raiders Talk podcast.