It won’t be long before Jimmy Garoppolo gets to see his old teammates again. As the Athletic is reporting the Raiders and 49ers will be holding joint practices with Garoppolo’s old club prior to a preseason meeting this year.
Holding a joint practice with their old Bay Area rivals is cool and all, but you’d think they’d have had to good sense to hold said joint practice actually *in* the Bay Area. You know, where there is still a strong contingent of Raiders fans and the weather is much cooler?
So, of course, they are holding it in Las Vegas where temp hits triple digits by 9am in August. Presumably for the same reason they invited the Patriots to town last year. That being to show off their new digs.
No date has been announced yet for these joint practices or the preseason game.
And don’t expect to see Garoppolo against his old mates in the preseason game if he’s the starter. If last year with Derek Carr was any indication, those matchups will occur in the joint practices only.