CARSON, Calif. -- "There's no pressure. There's no 'We'll be on the 1-yard line, and I won't give it to Marshawn [Lynch]. I’ll throw it.' None of that stuff." -- Derek Carr, upon signing his five-year, $125 million contract extension in June 2017.
The Oakland Raiders are running the risk of instigating an international incident next week in London unless they nip this potential Beast Mode problem in the bud -- one week after Marshawn Lynch was being lauded as a team leader.
Dramatic? Maybe.
But there is no doubt that Lynch was upset after he was used as a decoy by Jon Gruden and Carr on a play-action fake on first-and-goal from the 1-yard line late in the third quarter Sunday.