You could read the lips of Derek Carr after he went down in a heap, his right ankle stuck and twisted under the body of 270-pound Indianapolis defensive lineman Trent Cole. One of the first things Carr said was: "It's broke."
Then, Carr appeared to say: "It's bad."
Carr was helped off the field, unable to put weight on the leg, and it was obvious from Carr's reaction, and the sudden quietness of a nervous fan base at Oakland Coliseum, that something was seriously wrong.
"We all felt it," coach Jack Del Rio told the media after the game.