Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!
I have some good news and some bad news today. The bad news is that tonight marks the final Thursday night game of the NFL season. That’s bad news because I’m not sure what I’m going to do with my Thursdays from here on out. I will probably enter a boggle league, but I haven’t fully decided.
The good news is that we now have more free time to talk about what the heck the Raiders are going to do at quarterback now that they’ve officially benched Derek Carr, which, by the way, makes me feel extremely old. The first game I ever covered for CBS Sports came back in September 2011 when Fresno State played Cal at Oracle Park in San Francisco, which was Carr’s first college game. (Cal beat Carr’s Fresno State team, 36-21.)
Eleven years later, Carr has now been benched, and we’ll take a look at what’s next for him in today’s newsletter. Plus, we’ll be previewing tonight’s game and why there’s a good chance it will turn into a Cowboys‘ blowout.
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1. Today’s show: Brady Quinn breaks down the latest NFL news
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If you’re going to listen to just one episode of the Pick Six podcast every week, then you should definitely make sure that you’re listening every Thursday, because that’s when Brady Quinn joins the show. For today’s episode, the former first-round pick chatted with Will Brinson about multiple topics, including the surprising benching of Derek Carr.
With Carr no longer the starter, it seems almost certain that the Raiders will be getting rid of him this offseason. And if that happens, they’ll have two options: They have to trade or cut him. The problem for the Raiders is that Carr has $40.4 million that becomes guaranteed if he’s still on the roster on Feb. 15, which means the Raiders will have to make a decision quickly. Carr is a valuable commodity, so Quinn thinks the Raiders will definitely end up trading him.
“There will be a trade partner,” Quinn said. “Carr would probably be the top quarterback in the trade market — unless the Packers make Aaron Rodgers…
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