Derek Carr’s name-dropping at the line of scrimmage Sunday kept things interesting but it couldn’t prevent a Chiefs onslaught in a 28-10 loss.
Carr spiced things up early during their battle at the Coliseum by calling out Richard Nixon, Clayton Kershaw and even Raiders owner Mark Davis while audibilizing to a different play.
Those fluent in the parlance of quarterback speak are used to hearing unique catch words from signal-callers — such as Peyton Manning’s “Omaha” and former Cal star Jared Goff’s “Halle Berry” call for the Rams.
Still, one might argue Carr was only inviting trouble by evoking the names of a disgraced former president, an L.