Derek Carr didn’t have the opportunity to start a playoff game until last season, when the Las Vegas Raiders earned a playoff berth in a “winner-take-all” Week 18 showdown. This playoff appearance was just the second time the Raiders made the postseason in Carr’s eight seasons, the first was when Carr missed the game with a broken fibula just two weeks before the playoffs.
Carr has made just one playoff start in his career, a 26-19 loss to the eventual AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals. Rewarded with a three-year, $121.5 million extension this week, paying $40.5 million a year to a quarterback that has failed to win a playoff game in eight seasons has some risks.
Carr won’t question the optics, nor his ability to lead the Raiders back to their glory days.
“The question of, Can I win a playoff game? Yeah, that’s ridiculous,” Carr said Wednesday, via Pro Football Talk. “Yes. Just because we haven’t, just because we had one chance and we lost in the last series of the game to the AFC champions? Yeah, I think we can. It just shows you how close we were.”
Carr hasn’t exactly been blessed with talent around him with the Raiders,…
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