The chess match Sunday is one in which the defensive coordinator is trying to get in the quarterback’s head. And vice versa.
Imagine how fun that would be if the two had spent almost every day together for six months.
Raiders quarterback Derek Carr won’t have too many surprise moves available when he faces New Orleans in the season opener because Saints defensive coordinator Dennis Allen was his head coach for the first four games of his career. That relationship ended when Allen was fired a month into a 2014 season that Oakland started 0-10.