Heading into the Raiders’ Week 4 game with the Browns, I questioned if the Derek Carr’s early season struggles — or, more specifically, the mixed messages coming from Jon Gruden about his quarterback’s play — were an example of the to-be-expected growing pains of a new offense or a harbinger of bad things to come.
Carr provided an emphatic answer to that question against Cleveland:
His struggles in the first three weeks were simply the challenges of adapting to a new offense.
But the Raiders’ quarterback isn’t struggling anymore.
Carr looked downright fantastic in the Raiders’ first win of the season Sunday.