It was a tough Week 5 for Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Gardner Minshew, as not only did he have a bad performance in a loss to the Denver Broncos, he was also caught on live television picking his nose and eating it.
Minshew started the game for the Raiders, as he did the previous four weeks. But the veteran signal-caller was pulled in the third quarter after throwing his second interception of the afternoon.
After getting to the bench, Minshew threw his third pick of the game (his nose). Not only was Minshew caught digging for gold, he then proceeded to eat it.
If you can stomach it, check out the clip below.
Gardner Minshew picks his nose and eats it pic.twitter.com/za9uDg0sKp
— Tom Clyde (@tvtommyclyde) October 6, 2024
Poor Minshew, he took two "Ls" on Sunday.
Minshew finished the game 12-of-17 for 137 yards and one touchdown to two picks. One of those interceptions came on the Broncos' five-yard line and was returned for a touchdown.
Making it more painful, the Raiders had an opportunity to go up 17-3 before the blunder.
Instead, that proved to be a huge momentum shift, as the Broncos scored another 24 unanswered points after that and the Raiders didn't score a single point again until late in the fourth quarter in garbage time.
O'Connell didn't fare much better. He did lead Las Vegas to the garbage-time scoring drive but finished 10-of-20 for 94 yards with one pick — and no, it wasn't the kind of pick Minshew got caught doing.
After the game, head coach Antonio Pierce was asked if he was going to start O'Connell in Week 6, but he did not have an answer. We would expect the Raiders to give O'Connell the nod, though.
