ALAMEDA, Calif. – Lost in the morass of the Oakland Raiders packing up their locker room Sunday following their season-ending loss at the Houston Texans a day earlier was this nugget:
Backup quarterback Matt McGloin, who is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent, telling Associated Press he was looking to go “somewhere where they will give me a chance to compete for a starting role” in free agency.
Well, that would seem to eliminate Oakland. Derek Carr, and the surgically-repaired fibula in his right leg, is the face of the franchise and Connor Cook was chosen over McGloin, and his banged-up left shoulder, to start the Raiders’ first playoff game in 14 years.