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Can Raiders, Derek Carr provide blueprint for Jets to end stretch of QB drafting woes?

Jets are Raiders are forever linked by the infamous Heidi Game in 1968, the season that quarterback Joe Namath took New York and the NFL world by storm.

Not a lot has gone right for the Jets since Namath led them to a victory in Super Bowl III. And for a stretch of about 30 years, the Jets and Raiders were also linked by their inability to draft and develop quarterbacks.

Then the Raiders picked Derek Carr in Round 2 in 2014. He has turned out to be a fantastic player, a starter from Day 1, already a two-time Pro Bowler, with 83 touchdown passes and 31 interceptions to date, plus a 94.