Derek Carr retired from the NFL this week and will go down as one of the great quarterbacks in Raiders franchise history.
Carr owns career records for the Raiders in passing touchdowns (217) and passing yards (35,222) but was still one of the most polarizing quarterbacks in the league – even among his own fan base with the team.
One of Carr’s general managers with the Raiders was Mike Mayock and Mayock talked this week about the legacy Carr leaves behind in his NFL career and where the Raiders let him down during his nine years with the team.
“When you start to judge Derek, did he have some shortcomings? Sure, he did. Was he a Hall of Fame quarterback? No, he’s not. But he played 11 years at a high level. He was a natural thrower of the football. Really good in the pocket. Very accurate,” Mayock said on Sirius XM Radio.
“I just felt bad for Derek because with the Raiders he had several changes in general managers, head coaches [and] coordinators. He met every single one of them with ‘Ok, how do we get better?’ Instead of any kind of negative perception, he did the best with what he had. I don’t think he always had the support cast that would have benefitted him and given him more playoff games and wins.”
For the three years Carr and Mayock were together with the Raiders there was no shortage of trade rumors around the veteran quarterback. In fact, it was the storyline that kept quite a few offseasons interesting in Oakland and Las Vegas.
Publicly, Mayock and Jon Gruden sometimes seemed to leave the door open on the possibility of trading Carr, but we know now that Gruden and Mayock weren’t even interested in replacing Carr with Tom Brady.
By most accounts, it was owner Mark Davis that was enamored with the idea of signing Brady, but Gruden wasn’t on board.
“I worked to put a deal together for Brady and Gronk to come to the Raiders,” UFC president Dana White said three years ago. “It was almost a done deal, and at the last minute, Gruden blew the deal up and said he didn’t want them. All hell broke loose. It was crazy. Brady was already looking at houses. So Las Vegas would have had Brady and Gronk the year the Bucs won the Super Bowl, except Gruden blew the deal up.”
x: @raidersbeat
Good grief 🤦🏾♂️
Carr was a great fantasy football Q.
He loved throwing back foot rainbows.
He was terrible at locking in on one receiver.
He moaned and squeaked when he got hit and rattled easily.
Like any NFL starter if you give him a clean pocket for five seconds and a run game he’s good.
VERY TRUE..
All the fanboyz that got behind the facade of religious proper and numbers were blind to his ability to actually lift and carry a team like above average Q’s do. Especially in the biggest of games. Cart was king Wilt.
Not sure why he even rates writing about.
Go fudge yourself. He had plenty of comeback wins & he was surrounded with dog crap, especially the defense, and an owner that’s completely clueless.
If Carr is on the Eagles they’re a dynasty. The fact you bring his Christian faith into this when it’s irrelevant just shows your viewpoint is completely invalid
Spoken like a true Fantasy football general.
If Jimmy G was in that eagles team they win the superbowl. #justfacts #nofanboyrhetorichere
Even his own receivers called him out for setting them up over the middle by staring them down and getting them hammered..
The Saints were a quarterback ready team to go deep into the playoffs. And what did cart do?
The proof is in the results. And I’m not talking about stats.
Watch the **** games, not the raiderettes.
Back Uup that comment with actual quotes and where those quotes actually appeared or you are just spouting fake crap.
Next time, do your own research. And if you watch as much football, as I do, you’d know,Olave, the top 10 pick, got the **** beat out of him because of cart. Hell, if you were paying attention to raider games, you know this to be fact.
https://www.wdsu.com/article/former-saints-wr-michael-thomas-goes-on-negative-social-media-rant-directed-qb-derek-carr/62798037
Wine wine wine maybe you wood have done a better job but they never herd of Lil ol you?
Maybe you should’ve stayed in school and got a clue?
Another day another boring totally useless story.