Raiders wary of 0-11 Jets
Quarterback doesn’t want New York’s first win to come vs. Vegas
Derek Carr has been here before, on a winless team deep into a season and hungry for an elusive victory.
That’s why the Las Vegas Raiders quarterback is wary, not wanting his squad to be the team the 0-11 New York Jets beat to finally erase that ugly zero from their wins column.
“It’s a matter of time before they get things going and do things the right way,” Carr said. “I’m sure that they are. I’ll pump the brakes on a winless team and just reiterate that they kicked the crap out of us the last time we played them. We had to go there, they beat the dog out of us.
“So, if we don’t bring it, they’ll do the same thing again.”
Carr was referring to last season, when Sam Darnold and the Jets rolled past the Raiders 34-3 at Metlife Stadium. New York was in the middle of a final stretch during which it won six of its last eight games.
This season, the Jets haven’t been able to get just one victory.
They’ve already set the franchise mark for the longest single-season losing streak, and a loss Sunday to the Raiders (6-5) will tie for the worst overall skid set across two seasons by the 1995-96 team under Rich Kotite.
“I mean, 0-11, no one at the beginning of the season thought that we’d find ourselves in this position at this point in the season,” Darnold said.
Carr certainly knows the feeling. He was part of the 2014 Raiders team that started 0-10 before finishing 3-13. The win over Kansas City in Week 12 ended a 16-game losing streak dating to the 2013 season.
Struggling Sam
Darnold returned last week from a two-game absence because of a shoulder injury and didn’t provide the spark to the Jets’ offense they had hoped for. The third-year quarterback threw two interceptions.