Perhaps most telling of the way Carr has owned the Raiders’ locker room and how he may shortly be a nationally respected figure among the other 31 National Football League teams, was his knee-jerk reaction in the immediate aftermath of the winning play.
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513: Carr’s franchise-record passing yards.
The touchdown and the victory can probably help the Raiders stomach the fact that they snapped a record that isn’t the best one to own. One of those other receivers with multiple receptions was Seth Roberts and his Houdini act in keeping his feet on his game winning 41-yard touchdown.
Needing a touchdown to tie, Carr passed for 78 yards on the drive, finding Mychal Rivera for a 7-yard tying score.
“It was an awesome performance”.
The majority of that money went to build two giant video scoreboards, and I’ve got a question for Bucs management this morning: Why spend so much money on such a huge piece of technology if you’re not going to employ it when people want to see it?
“I thought we earned some and I thought some were questionable”, coach Jack Del Rio said. Those numbers also come with a mature decision-making process for a third-year player, demonstrated by Carr throwing just three interceptions.
The third-year pro said he got so emotional that he almost broke into tears when he learned he replaced Cotton Davidson (427 yards, 1964) in the record book.
Left tackle Donald Penn, who caught a 1-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter, was penalized three times in the game, though a holding call in overtime was canceled out by a Buccaneers penalty.
This is foreign territory for Del Rio, whose 2009 Jacksonville team had 70 penalties for 542 yards for an entire season – the lowest figure in the NFL.
Winston was out of sync again, completing just 16 passes for 180 yards.
The game looked like it could have been close on paper, but things were all but over by half time as the Titans stormed into a massive 27-0 lead.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders take part in the coin toss before an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. “We didn’t take it”.
The Bucs went on the road in the season opener, defeating the Falcons 31-24. Cooper has topped the 100-yard mark in four of the Raiders’ eight games. Getting his first extended playing time since offseason ankle surgery, tight end Tyler Eifert caught nine passes for 102 yards and a TD.
Seven of the penalties occurred before the snap, including a pair of 12-men in defensive formation flags that gave Tampa Bay first downs on 3rd-and-1 on a go-ahead fourth-quarter drive.
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“I really felt like our defense wasn’t allowing them to do anything”, Del Rio said. “We’re going to have to clean it up on our end”. “We can’t be a championship team like that, so we have to clean that up”. Despite the win, it was a rough game for the Chiefs, who lost Smith twice after hits to the head – later diagnosed with a concussion – and finished with Charcandrick West as their only healthy running back. The Bucs said Rodgers left the game late with a foot injury.
