Las Vegas Raiders: 5 biggest surprises of 2022 thus far
By Sean Basile
Las Vegas Raiders: 5 biggest surprises of 2022 thus far
Derek Carr has been sneaky good
Derek Carr is only completing 63.5% of his passes this season, but since that horrendous performance in Week 1, I’ve found him to be a rock for this Raiders offense.
I’m a big believer in QBR and despite the 2-4 record this season, he is now seventh in QBR with a score of 62.0. That is better than players of note such as Jalen Hurts, Tom Brady, Justin Herbert, Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, Kyler Murray, and Joe Burrow, and his team has a worse record than all of those quarterbacks.
I’ve watched him make comebacks in two crucial road games this year when his team really needed him to come through.
The Titans’ comeback was a quieter one that obviously didn’t pan out entirely because the Raiders lost, but they were virtually out of the entire game the whole way until the fourth quarter when he led the offense down the field and could’ve tied it with a two-point conversion after hitting the touchdown to cut it to a two-point deficit.
The Chiefs game was all over the place. First, he lit it up and jumped out to a big lead. Then he kind of leveled out while his defense surrendered unanswered point after unanswered point. Then he managed to come back again and miss the tie on another failed two-point conversion.
The point is, this is the first year in a while Derek is not lighting up the stat sheets with overwhelming numbers yet he might be playing some of his best football.
Go figure.