Yes, Derek Carr has heard the yarn Dana White has spun about Jon Gruden squashing a Tom Brady to Las Vegas deal that would have displaced the longtime Raiders quarterback. No, he would not like to talk about it further.
Carr, who has helmed the Raiders since 2014 and has never played fewer than 15 games at quarterback for Las Vegas, was asked the inevitable question about the Brady rumors and if he was now immune to them. He was fairly glib in his response.
“By now, I would hope so,” Carr said, per Raiders.com. “I mean, it is what it is.”
The fires of this particular rumor were stoked by people cross-referencing White's timeline with Brady derisively saying "you're sticking with that motherf-----" in a viral clip from "The Shop."
so Derek Carr is “that MFer” that Jon Gruden stuck with instead of landing Brady & Gronk 👀pic.twitter.com/jR7xtDcHmR
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) August 21, 2022
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Carr, however, seems ready to move on.
“It really doesn’t matter,” he said, per Pro Football Talk.
At the end of the day, anything I say will just be blasted out there so I’m just going to completely remove myself and just keep trying to play football. It’s been nice just answering football questions. And hopefully, no more drama in the city. That’s what I hope.
It looks like it's moving in that direction. This offseason, Carr signed a three-year, $121.5 million extension with the Raiders that features a no-trade clause. The deal had $65.3 million guaranteed, which means any questions about Carr's future with the Raiders, at least for now, are just window dressing.
Carr has thrown for 31,700 yards with the Raiders in his career, along with 193 touchdowns and 85 interceptions. His career completion percentage is 65 percent even. The Raiders went 10-7 and clinched a playoff spot last year, but they didn't make it out of Wild Card Weekend as they were beaten by the eventual AFC Champion Bengals.
