The Oakland Raiders lost yet again on Monday night to the Philadelphia Eagles. With a Christmas audience watching, Derek Carr and Oakland's offense were doing the opposite of hitting on all cylinders.
Derek Carr knows this, spoke on it, and accepts all the blame… kind of.
“[I]t’s come down to the end and we have not made plays,” Carr said after Monday night’s ugly loss to the Eagles. “We have not done what we needed to do to win the games. That’s pretty much how our year has been. We haven’t done enough. And it’s all in the little details of everyone’s assignment. Like I said, we win and lose as a team, but you can always put it on me.”
That is a lot of “we” talk for a dude who says he is trying to take all the blame.
I. Am. Joking.
Kind of.
“You have to work hard when it gets tough,” Carr said. “I can get cliché on you, but I won’t. When things get tough, a lot of people point fingers. I’ve tried my best every single time to stand up here and be a man and just take it. That’s who I am. That’s how I was raised and I’ll always be that way. When it gets hard, I fight. Nothing is going to change. Hopefully the results change, but I’m going to keep fighting. I’ve been 0-10. I’ve been in sucky situations. I’ve been in hard times, more so in life than football, to be honest with you. We’re going to come out of this and people will just look back on it like, ‘Wow what happened?’ kind of a thing. But there’s no doubt in my mind that I’m going to work my tail off like I always do, correct the things that I need to correct and move forward.”
That is a ton of words that mean nothing, but at least he is trying or something.
Carr is a good quarterback who is having a so-so campaign. Oakland is a good team that is just having a bad season. I wouldn't get too worked up over a single bluh-year. Sometimes poop just happens and it isn't really anyone's fault.
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