This is what late Raiders owner Al Davis meant when he coined the phrase “Just win, baby!”

On a day when the Silver and Black set an NFL record with 23 accepted penalties for a mind-boggling 200 yards, they still left the Pirate Ship with a 30-24 overtime victory over the Buccaneers. The Raiders flew home after their fifth Eastern time zone win of the season gave them a 6-2 record, tied with the Broncos for second-best in the AFC behind only the 7-1 Patriots.

There was a whole season of highlights and lowlights packed into a little less than four hours Sunday for the Raiders.

“Man, talk about ups and downs. I think it’s a record, right, for penalties? My goodness,” said Derek Carr, who threw for a Raiders-record 513 yards on 40-for-59 passing with touchdowns to four different receivers. “We’re going to have to watch the film and talk about that. The refs, I think, did a great job, and we’re going to have to clean that up on our end.”

Carr got the Raiders into position to win it in regulation, but Sebastian Janikowski missed from 50 yards out as time expired. Oakland looked as if it was heading for a touchdown on the first drive of overtime, but Amari Cooper was called for striking a defender in the helmet after making a catch at the Bucs 23. Janikowski then missed from 52 yards and the game continued. The next Raiders drive featured penalties that wiped out plays of 41 (an offsetting foul that didn’t even count in the totals), 15 and 13 yards.

The winning touchdown pass to Seth Roberts, a 41-yarder on fourth-and-3 with 1:45 to go in overtime, capped a five-play drive that miraculously didn’t include any penalties.

The statistical community had a busy afternoon trying to put Carr’s performance and the flags into context. Carr broke Cotton Davidson’s franchise record of 427 yards against the Broncos in 1964. Interestingly, the names Daryle Lamonica, Ken Stabler and Jim Plunkett don’t appear on the list of the Raiders’ top 10 passing games, but Jeff Hostetler and Todd Marinovich do, along with Rich Gannon (three times) and Carson Palmer (twice). Carr also joined Y.A. Tittle and Ben Roethlisberger as the only quarterbacks in NFL history with at least 500 yards and four touchdown passes without an interception in a game.

The previous mark of 22 penalties was shared by the 1998 49ers, the 1944 Bears and the 1944 Brooklyn Tigers. Ironically, the Raiders had to break the record twice because the Bucs declined a holding penalty on a sack. No. 23 then came on the next play. The Raiders have 86 penalties through eight games, 20 more than the next team (the Redskins). The 49ers have committed only 31 accepted fouls in seven games. But the Raiders have six wins and the 49ers have one, so go figure.

“I can’t believe it, but it just shows the resilience of this team,” said Cooper, who had a career-high 173 yards receiving and one huge drop. “We can’t be a championship team like that, so we have to clean it up definitely.”

Cow about that?

To paraphrase Jimmy Johnson from the last Dallas dynasty: Don’t doubt them Cowboys!

Their five-game winning streak was in peril when the Eagles got the ball at their own 41 with 13:05 to go, up 23-13. But then, Wendell Smallwood fumbled on a tackle by Terrell McClain and Tyrone Crawford recovered. Dan Bailey’s 49-yard field goal cut the margin to a touchdown, which the Cowboys got with 3:04 to go on Dak Prescott’s 22-yard pass to a leaping, twisting Dez Bryant.

Dallas won the overtime toss and never gave the ball up, as Prescott took them 75 yards in 12 plays. Jason Garrett went for it on fourth-and-1 from the Eagles’ 28, and Prescott powered forward for 2. Five plays later, the rookie scrambled out of the pocket to his left and hit a wide-open Jason Witten for the touchdown that gave the Cowboys a 29-23 win and sent them into winless Cleveland next week with a 6-1 mark and a two-game lead in the NFC East. Jerry Jones said Tony Romo won’t be ready for that one (as if …). The Eagles come to MetLife to play the Giants in a battle of 4-3 teams.

Bollocks!

British futbol fans at Wembley Stadium don’t appreciate a bad kick, and they weren’t expecting to see a tie when they bought tickets for the American football game between the Bengals and Redskins. So after the Redskins’ Dustin Hopkins missed a right-between-the-hashmarks, 34-yard field goal with 2:13 to go in overtime Sunday in London, the NFL was on its way to a tie for a second week in a row.

“Literally could have stayed home and had the same outcome,” @Totes McGotes wrote on Twitter.

“As if English people wanted to see MORE ties at Wembley,” tweeted @JebBrovsky. “Good job. #Rubbish.”

“@Redskins, I hope you have some kickers trying out next week, SMH,” contributed @VLOHokie.

Redskins cornerback Josh Norman had a message for that last tweeter and anyone else who wanted to blame the non-victory on Hopkins.

“I think you suck. You know nothing about football. If you put this game on him, you’re terrible,” Norman said, per NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo.

Norman did have someone else to blame after getting called for five penalties, including four for illegal use of hands, in his elite-level battle with Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green.

“Who is Official 88? He sucked. He should be reprimanded,” Norman said, referring to field judge Brad Freeman. “We play a physical game, [the refs] know that. We come here [to play] an international game, it all goes out the window … he needs to be reprimanded.”

Play of the Day

The 146th offensive play of the Raiders-Buccaneers game is the one that wins the award. On a fourth-and-4 from the Tampa Bay 41 with 1:45 to go in overtime, Carr hit Roberts on a deep cross at the 30. Roberts slithered between two colliding Buccaneers defensive backs at the 28 and raced all alone down the right hashmark and into the end zone for the Raiders victory.

Bad beat

The Eagles at plus-4 was the worst beat. Also pretty bad: The Chargers were getting 4½, were trailing the Broncos 27-19 and had first-and-goal at the 2 with 2:54 to go. Philip Rivers threw four incompletions in a row.

Post Patterns

Rex Ryan pretty much conceded the AFC East to the Patriots after Tom Brady threw four touchdown passes to beat his Bills 41-25: “If you really think we can run the table and still win [the division], I don’t think so. That team’s three games up on us at the halfway point, and they’ve lost one game … and No. 12’s back. So I don’t see that happening. I hope I’m wrong.” One thing that was wrong (funny, but wrong) in Orchard Park was when a fan threw a sex toy that came to rest at the 1-yard line on a Patriots drive. Side judge Keith Washington called time, walked over to the phony phallus and took two kicks to get it off the field. … Hard to believe, but the strangest penalty of the day wasn’t called against the Raiders, but rather on Seattle’s Earl Thomas. After returning a fumble 34 yards for a touchdown in a 25-20 loss in New Orleans, Thomas ran through the end zone to give the ball to a fan, then came back and gave side judge Alex Kemp a big hug. The Saints didn’t capitalize on the 15-yard penalty on what has to be the most friendly unsportsmanlike conduct foul of the season. … Scary sight in Denver as 69-year-old Broncos defensive coordinator Wade Phillips was run over on the sideline by the Chargers’ Melvin Gordon on Bradley Roby’s 49-yard interception return for a touchdown. Phillips was carted off on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital. The Broncos later reported all was well and Phillips will return to work Monday. … With Alex Smith getting knocked out of the game twice by the Colts, the Chiefs got a big boost from backup QB Nick Foles in a 30-14 win at Indianapolis. Foles threw for 223 yards and two touchdowns as the Chiefs won for the 15th time in their last 17 regular-season games. … Brady’s 26 career wins vs. Buffalo ties Brett Favre (vs. Detroit) for the most by a quarterback against a single opponent. … Kirk Cousins’ 458 yards passing were the most in an International Series game. … The NFL had ties in back-to-back weeks for the first time since 1997.

Three Stars

1. Derek Carr, Raiders QB

Carr completed 40 of 59 passes for 513 yards and four touchdowns, the last a 41-yarder to Seth Roberts late in overtime to save the Raiders on a day they committed an NFL-record 23 penalties.

2. Star Lotulelei, Panthers DT

Lotulelei had three of his team’s eight sacks of Carson Palmer and forced a forced a fumble in helping Carolina improve to 2-5. Honorable mention to K.C.’s Dee Ford, who had 3.5 sacks vs. the Colts.

3. Tom Brady, Patriots QB

Brady collected a modest 315 yards but threw touchdown passes to four different receivers and put up 41 points against a Bills defense that has given up 20 or fewer points five times this season.

He said what?

“It’s really taking the fun out of the game for me honestly because at times I don’t even feel safe, and enough is enough. I plan on talking to Commissioner Goodell about this.” — Cam Newton on what he considered uncalled late and low hits in the Panthers’ 30-20 victory over the Cardinals

Fantasy Insanity

* Spent the weekend in Salem, Mass., but forgot to visit with a psychic who could properly forecast this week’s in-game developments. Without a crystal ball, there is no way to predict or protect against maladies such as when Spencer Ware doesn’t come out for the second half, or you lose Jacquizz Rodgers with ample time remaining, or Mark Ingram gets benched after an early fumble. Possibly the most frustrating late development was Ty Montgomery being ruled out with an illness well after the 1 p.m. kickoffs. So many fantasy owners didn’t have available alternatives, and daily owners on sites that don’t allow late subs were stuck.

* Mike Gillislee stepped up in the absence of LeSean McCoy. Too bad it came a week later than many hoped. It was much more clear this week McCoy wouldn’t play, although Gillislee was nursing a foot injury of his own. Combined with a projected negative game flow for Bills RBs against the revenge-seeking Patriots, this week seemed like a bigger Gillislee risk than last week. But he racked up 85 rushing yards and a TD, along with three catches for a paltry 9 yards (worth and additional three points in a PPR league but, more properly scored, zero in a standard). Probably not going to be on our radar next week at Seattle.

* The parade of streaming QB options continued in Week 8. Josh McCown delivered 341 passing yards with two TDs (and two INTs), and Andy Dalton rallied 284 yards with a TD and a pick, plus a rushing touchdown. Both of them outscored draft-day heroes Cam Newton, Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson.

– Drew Loftis