What was behind the Raiders uncanny offensive collapse this season?

Derek Carr talked on the record with Vic Tafur this week and offered a little insight into what he felt went wrong.

Via The Athletic:

“The first two weeks, we had great weeks. And then we go and play at Washington and had a bad game. OK, no big deal. Let’s move on and get better. But then somewhere in Weeks 4 and 5, we started running different things. … We had spurts, but we were trying to find out who we were again the rest of the season.”

A number of reports this season pointed to the Washington game as a turning point in the season and if Carr’s message is what it sounds to be, the coaching staff seems to have been shaken by the Redskins loss as much as the players.

Whether or not that’s the case, this much we know to be true…

Confidence eroded all season between the players and coaches until it became clear to owner Mark Davis that a cleanup effort needed to be put into place…

The cost of that cleanup?

$100 million.

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