ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Derek Carr, team captain, starting quarterback and face of the franchise, declined to talk to the media Saturday. His slumped shoulders and hound dog countenance as he sat at his stall and scrolled through his phone said enough.
The Antonio Brown saga had come to a merciful end for the Oakland Raiders and it made for a strange locker room, two days before the season opener on ESPN's Monday Night Football against the Denver Broncos.
News of Brown heading to New England had not yet broken by the time the Raiders locker room closed.