Before we blame Carr

Honestly, if we still had Drew & Sean with this schedule, we might be undefeated or maybe a loss or two. This year was set up to be a cake walk. It takes a truly inept coaching staff to screw up constantly facing bad teams with backup QBs.
Thats the thing, though, if you pair Derek Carr maybe with a better HC and OC and run a more effective, potent offense then the disaster we've seen so far, I think even with a mid-tier QB like Carr, we'd be 6-5 or 7-4, at very best, right now. I think this team's problems right now are more indicative of bad, inept coaching and lack of discipline which comes from lack of or no leadership from the HC. I truly believe if we remove DA and PC from the equation right now, and replace them with a better HC like SP, Mike McDaniel, or Sean Mcvay, even with Carr's faults, we likely have 2-3 more wins then we currently do. Derek Carr has never had a great really outside-the-box, innovative offensive HC or OC, Jon Gruden got fired over two years ago for decade-old racist e-mails during the 2011 NFLPA strike, so he only had him for a couple of seasons and all in all, statistically-speaking, he had some of his best seasons ever.