It’s no secret that Derek Carr didn’t play well on Monday night. Carr posted one of the worst games of his career as he threw zero touchdowns and three interceptions. He finished the game with a passer rating of 62.8, one of the lowest passer rating games of his career.

While we can chalk that performance up to just one bad game, the fact is that Carr hasn’t played well as of late. In fact, he’s really struggled over the last season and a half. Today, I want to try to put his recent slump into perspective to show just how bad he’s been.

During the 2016 season, Carr started to get a lot of praise for his play. He was playing the best football of his career and the Raiders looked to be the next big thing in the AFC. However, something happened to Carr and he just hasn’t been that same quarterback. In Carr’s last 20 games, his passer rating is down to 84.7 and he has thrown 28 touchdowns to 17 interceptions.

And while in a vacuum, that may not seem awful, it’s important to provide some context to those numbers league-wide.

Let’s start by comparing those numbers to other “lesser” quarterbacks during the same time frame. Our first comparison will be everyone’s favorite quarterback to pick on, Blake Bortles.

Even after the Jaguars made it to the AFC Championship game last season, there were people who wanted Jacksonville to trade for Teddy Bridgewater or select Lamar Jackson.

However, when you look at the numbers, they aren’t all that far off from Carr’s. Bortles has a passer rating of 83.5, slightly worse than Carr’s. But, when you account for his rushing totals, he has more total yards, fewer turnovers, and more touchdowns.

It’s not hard to make a really strong argument that Bortles has been the more effective quarterback during that timeframe. He’s averaged more yards per attempt, higher adjusted yards per attempt and is a threat in the running game as well. At the very least, they have been essentially the same caliber of quarterbacks.

Let’s take a look at another AFC quarterback in Andy Dalton. Dalton, who is widely considered just an average passer in today’s NFL, has been a much better quarterback as of late than Carr. Dalton has thrown for more touchdowns, fewer interceptions, all at a higher yards per attempt.

If you go back even further than 20 games, into a 24 or 28 game sample size, you will see Carr and Dalton have very similar numbers. It’s pretty clear that Dalton has out-played Carr.

I even looked for quarterbacks who people have seemingly given up on recently, such as Sam Bradford, and even he has significantly better stats in his last 20 games with three different teams during that timeframe. And this is a quarterback who’s reputation is at an all-time low.

To even further the point about how much Carr has struggled in his last 20 games, I looked at backup quarterbacks across the NFL. Current Jets’ backup Josh McCown to see how he compared to Carr. In his last 20 games (18 starts), McCown has scored five more touchdowns, turned the ball over fewer times and has a higher passer rating.

McCown is considered a “journeymen” backup quarterback in the league and he has put comparable stats, to say the least. That has to be concerning for Raiders’ fans.

So, is it time to push the panic button on Carr? He has had the weapons, the offensive line, and the running game to succeed. Should we be concerned that he’s never going to be the guy to take the Raiders to where they want to go?

Who knows.

However, the thought that he is an elite quarterback or nearing that elite level has seemed to drift away. It’s now about finding Carr an offense that allows him to maximize his strengths. He clearly has tools and we have seen him be useful and productive before, so it’s about getting him back to that level.

He’s not going to turn into the next Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady, but that doesn’t mean you can’t win with them. It’s just time to accept that he’s somewhere between the 16th and 26th best quarterback in the NFL. Obviously, that’s not ideal. But it’s not a killer, either.