The spell that Carr has on the Raiders was broken on Sunday Night Football when they were knocked out by the lowly Pittsburgh. The starting quarterback of the Raiders has been benched for the final two weeks of the season. Carr's demotion isn't an attempt to keep him fresh for a longer period of time. The days of the Silver and Black Raiders are over.
Carr has injury guarantees that are fully vested if he can't pass a physical before the third day of the waiver period, giving the Raiders a clear incentive to let him go. Mark Davis is one of the poorer owners in the league, which makes it more likely that the Raiders will look elsewhere for their quarterback. It could be Jimmy Garoppolo or Tom Brady. Carr is the Raiders' highly-compensated quarterback for a decade, which is the height of Procrastination.
He wasn't a franchise quarterback early in his career but a career year in 2016 gave him more time to prove himself. In a league where franchise quarterbacks are expected to contend for Super Bowls, Carr's ceiling was the Wild Card Round.
When the underutilized Amari Cooper was catapulted to Dallas in the middle of the year, Carr's confidence began to decline. Dana White tried to get Brady to play for the Raiders before the 2020 season. Now that he is no longer the Raiders' starting quarterback, Carr has insisted that he wasn't the one Brady referred to.
Carr has kept his head barely above sea level, but the franchise's desperation goggles prevented them from seeing the truth. Carr was a prolific deep ball passer but at the same time he was a turnover machine.
The 2021 campaign was halted by Carr's red zone intercept in the Wild Card game against theBengals. The reality began to coagulate after the Raiders brought Adams to Vegas. The expectation was that Carr and Adams would form one of the league's most dynamic duos.
I was prepared to put a stake in Carr. He made many mistakes and never showed the command of a franchise quarterback. Carr is closer to Russell Wilson than the other two signal callers in his division, but the Raiders didn't realize they were in the same division. Carr is the caliber of quarterback who requires ideal conditions to thrive or else he presents as an average schlub who plays up or down to the level of his competition but can't elevate his co-stars to an elite level
Carr was spared from excessive scrutiny because of low expectations. Carr is leaving the team. Good riddance to trash.
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