{"id":11198,"date":"2014-08-29T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T13:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11198"},"modified":"2014-08-29T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T13:36:36","slug":"derek-carr-deserves-to-start-week-1-makes-raiders-decision-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/29\/derek-carr-deserves-to-start-week-1-makes-raiders-decision-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Carr deserves to start Week 1, makes Raiders decision easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the Oakland Raiders were still looking for a reason to start Derek Carr in Week 1 they got it in\u00a0Thursday’s preseason finale against Seattle.<\/p>\n

Carr was a stunning 11-of-13 for 143 yards and three touchdowns leading the Raiders to a series of touchdowns in a convincing first half of play against the Seahawks.<\/p>\n

Drafted in the second round Carr placed the heat on Matt Schaub the moment he was drafted. Things have gotten no better for 33-year-old Schaub who was acquired for a seventh round pick from the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n

Now dealing with\u00a0tendinitis, Schaub has shown a lack of arm strength this preseason.<\/p>\n

Soon the Raiders will confirm what everyone else already knows. Carr gives them\u00a0the best chance to win. Had Schaub shown anything this preseason the idea having him start for a few weeks could had been viable.<\/p>\n

Carr figures to be joined by the likes of Blake Bortles, Johnny Manziel and Teddy Bridgewater as rookie quarterbacks\u00a0who will make their NFL debuts this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the Oakland Raiders were still looking for a reason to start Derek Carr in Week 1 they got it in\u00a0Thursday’s preseason finale against Seattle. Carr was a stunning 11-of-13 for 143 yards and three touchdowns leading the Raiders to a series of touchdowns in a convincing first half of play against the Seahawks. Drafted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[705,426,216,189],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-derek-carr","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-oakland-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11199,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions\/11199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}