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Derek Carr's Final Year as a Raider

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This will be Derek Carr's final year with the Raiders. There is no doubt that whoever the Raiders' head coach is next February, Derek Carr will be traded ,or cut just after the Super Bowl. If Josh McDaniels is to get a second season, he will demand on choosing his own QB. Similarly if we have a new head coach, he will opt for his own man.  Blame can be shared for the Raiders inept performances this season. The coaching and play calling has been hideous. The defense has been incoherent. And Derek Carr has been profoundly mediocre. Another losing season awaits the Raiders. We won't win many more games this year so a high draft pick will be our 'reward'.  That draft pick will be a QB so for the first time in 10 years, the Raiders will start the 2023 season with a new QB under centre.  I was once a big Carr fan (Carr Stan dare I say) despite having many personal issues with the Raiders QB  - I'm anti religion and despise chancers like Joel Osteen (a frie

McDaniels Nearing Raiders Exit

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McDaniels Nearing Raiders Exit Oct 30, 2022 · 1 min read How long is an era? How long does an era actually last? If you can call 7 games an era, then the Josh McDaniels Raiders' era is at an end. 2-5 after a road drubbing in New Orleans leaves the forlorn Las Vegas Raiders' season in tatters. The Raiders have looked disorganised, disunited and in disarray under Josh McDaniels and major change to the Raiders organisation is inevitable. The first step in this change will be the firing of Josh McDaniels. It may not be today. It may not be tomorrow but it will happen between now and black Monday in early January. Yet another Raiders reboot under the failing ownership of Mark Davis is about to begin.