Quarterback Derek Carr said Sunday that he would have been ready to play in the Super Bowl, had the Raiders made it there.
That’s your fantasy news update, Raiders fans.
The reality is that the Raiders lost their wild-card playoff game Saturday in Houston, 27-14.
The only healing the Raiders are concerned with now is to their collective soul. Their season ended with a thud, and Sunday they were, in the words of head coach Jack Del Rio, “still a little raw.”
As the players cleaned out their lockers, Del Rio delivered his postmortem.