Last November, with the Las Vegas Raiders’ season teetering, quarterback and team leader Derek Carr made a strong case that that version of the Silver and Black was “different.”
And we took the bait.
Of course, in the end, it wasn’t different. The Raiders went from 6-4, then to 8-8 ... and were out of the playoffs again. In 2019, (the team Carr was saying the 2020 team was different from) turned a 6-4 record into a 7-9 season.
This season, the Raiders started 5-2 and are now 5-4 heading into Sunday’s home game against the Cincinnati Bengals.