That Derek Carr Contract is Looking Pretty Brilliant Now
How stupid do the Raiders look now? They benched this dude for a nobody
Take it from a Raiders fan since 1981. The dude is just good enough to get your hopes up, only to dash them to pieces. Look at the start of the 2021 season for instance. He has passing yards of 409, 373, and 357 to start out with. Then the next two games he had 165 and 188. Then he had 340 and 323. Then he closed out the regular season with 230, 182, 241, and 172, all wins by the Raiders. But in those four games he had 5 TD and 4 INT, which shows it was not he that led them to the playoffs, but Josh Jacobs and the defense.
Carr is good from the 20 to the 20, but he struggles mightily in the red zone. He threw for 4804 yards, but only 23 TD. That's roughly 1.5 TD per game, and he's getting paid way too much for that. In fact, he's only had one season of 30 + TD and that as in 2015, his second year in the league.