This is not on Billy Beane, and it is not a result of Yoenis Cespedes living in a different time zone.
This is just epic all on its own without placing blame or cause on either of those two men.
The 2014 Oakland A’s have set themselves on fire, and it is quite something at which to marvel. The best team in baseball five weeks ago is now playing like the worst, capped Monday night by maybe its worst loss of the season that now has it eight games behind the Los Angeles Angels in the American League West while cutting its ...
Oakland Raiders rookie quarterback Derek Carr had a solid debut in a Week 1 loss to the New York Jets.
Are the Raiders committed to Carr for the entire season? Is he the answer at quarterback for the future?
Watch as Adam Lefkoe goes in-depth with Bleacher Report NFL Analysts Matt Bowen and Chris Simms in the video above.Read more Oakland Raiders news on BleacherReport.com
Even in a loss, the Oakland Raiders hoped to walk off the field Sunday with some things to build off of going forward. But even the most optimistic observer will find it hard to find any positives after the team's performance in a 19-14 loss to the New York Jets.
After an encouraging start, the Raiders were unable to get anything done offensively for most of the game. During a stretch of the game from the second to fourth quarter, Oakland went more than 20 minutes of game time with only one first down. Whether it was passing or running the ...
It seemed like it would never get here, but Week 1 of the NFL season has finally arrived. The Oakland Raiders will open up 2014 at the New York Jets. Kick off is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET.
Oakland made major changes all over the roster this past offseason. Players like Justin Tuck, LaMarr Woodley and Maurice Jones-Drew were brought in to help turn around the fortunes of a franchise that's coming off of consecutive 4-12 seasons and hasn't had a winning season in over a decade.
Sunday will be their first chance to prove that the hope they've inspired is real—that ...
The Oakland Raiders haven't finished a season with a winning record since 2002. After yet another losing season, they underwent a major rebuild this past offseason. Now with more talent and experience than they've had in a decade, the team is aiming to begin their journey back to relevance.
The Raiders are coming off consecutive 4-12 seasons, but there were built-in excuses for that. General manager Reggie McKenzie spent the past two years trying to clean up the mess that was Oakland's payroll. The team was able to reap the benefits of that cleanup project this offseason, signing a slew of ...
The Oakland Raiders could have made a safe, low-impact play by starting Matt Schaub. But give them credit for instead going out on a limb and naming rookie Derek Carr their starting quarterback.
Carr, a second-round pick in the 2014 NFL draft, has been the only rookie QB outside of perhaps Blake Bortles to turn heads and make a case for being on the field when the games matter. In the preseason, Carr completed 67 percent of his passes and added four touchdowns, compared to 51 percent completion and zero touchdowns for Schaub.
That was enough to make him the only rookie ...
The Oakland A's have called up three players since the Sept. 1 roster expansion.
The team has been scuffling as of late, but don't expect any of the recent call-ups to be the spark that rights the ship. A regular will have to be that guy. Instead, these three will be looked upon simply to add depth and play roles in key situations.
So, who are they, what roles will they play and what do they bring to the table?
Let's answer all three questions.
Billy Burns
Burns came to the A's organization via trade with the Washington Nationals. He was named the Nationals' Minor ...
The Oakland Raiders have named rookie quarterback Derek Carr their Week 1 starter.
How will Carr's skill set translate to the NFL? Was he the best quarterback available in the 2014 NFL draft? How will Rex Ryan and the New York Jets try to stop him in Week 1?
Watch as Adam Lefkoe goes in depth with Bleacher Report NFL Analyst Chris Simms in the video above.Read more Oakland Raiders news on BleacherReport.com
Derek Carr, named the Oakland Raiders' starting quarterback six days before the team's Week 1 clash with the New York Jets, enters the first game of his NFL career carrying the weight of two families on his shoulders.
The first family is obvious. Derek Carr is the brother of former NFL quarterback David Carr, widely recognized as one of the biggest quarterback busts of the 21st century. As the first pick in the 2002 NFL draft by the expansion Houston Texans, David Carr was supposed to provide the one thing every franchise—expansion or otherwise—needs: a franchise quarterback.
Instead, the Carr name became ...
On Monday, the Oakland Raiders announced that rookie second-round draft pick Derek Carr would be their starting quarterback this season, per the team's official website. For anyone who watched the Raiders play this preseason, it was clear that Carr performed better than Matt Schaub, but performance isn’t the only factor the team had to consider.
Rookie quarterbacks face unique challenges, but the Raiders still made the right decision naming Carr the starter.
When general manager Reggie McKenzie selected Carr with the 36th overall pick in May, the hope was always that he would eventually win the starting job. Carr has exceeded expectations ...