Big plays have been hard to come by for the Raiders this season. The offense is predictable, timid, and impotent. If you’ve been asking yourself if Derek Carr seems to throw a lot more dumps and short passes than usual, it isn’t a figment of your imagination.
During their 4-game losing streak between weeks 3-6, the criticisms of this offense and its far too basic concepts and lack of the long ball started to ramp up. That alone is worth plenty of criticism, but when you go deeper, it gets even more troubling.
It isn’t just Carr not testing the field deep, it’s throwing passes that are practically glorified hand-offs.