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Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden thinks with the guys surrounding Derek Carr he needs to go deeper more often this year. The Raiders improved their wide receivers corps adding Antonio Brown and Tyrell Williams and the offensive line also improved.
Gruden thinks with those improvements; it means that Carr can have more success more often when throwing the deep ball.
“The better your receivers are, the more aggressive you are,” Gruden said via The Athletic. “And the better your line is, the more vertical shots you can call. We think we are better on the line. We think we are better outside. With that being said, we are going to take more shots, I hope.”
Gruden also brings up the new pass interference rule of a good reason why they need to throw the ball deep. Even if it's incomplete, the team can take a look to see if there is pass interference on the play. If there is Gruden wants to be aggressive with the challenges.
“We got to throw the ball down the field and if it's incomplete or we get the catch, we can always challenge (Al) Riveron (the senior vice president of officiating) in New York and see what he thinks,” Gruden said, referring to the new NFL rule on challenging pass interference calls. “It's going to be a very, very subjective call this year, but we are trying to be more aggressive.”
This is a big season for Carr and the Raiders, and if he can hit on the long throws that should spell success.
