Derek Carr is done with all the rumors.
In the past, the Las Vegas Raiders quarterback would simply shake off rumors or any other news surrounding him, but not this time around.
More speculation came up involving him after Tom Brady was seen talking to team owner Mark Davis at a UFC event in Las Vegas last weekend.
“C’mon, man, when’s it going to end?” Carr told Paul Gutierrez of ESPN.com.
“I mean, there was a lot of quarterbacks at that fight,” Carr told ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez, reportedly with a laugh, Thursday when asked about Brady’s encounter with Davis this past Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. “And there was a lot of football players at that fight that are free agents. And it’s like, every time, with my job, it’s always a story. No matter what. And knowing some people that were around, I even know what the conversation was (between Davis and Brady), and it’s like, ‘C’mon, man, when’s it going to end?’ ”
It’s very possible neither Brady or Davis even brought up football, let alone his impending free agency, but them being spotted together is enough to get the rumor mill going.
“All of these things that (you’d think) everyone would be like, ‘Yes, we’re going the right way. Everything’s getting better, and we know where we need to add things and where we (need) help.’ You would think that that would be the story,” Carr said Thursday, according to Gutierrez. “But that’s not how it works. And I understand that now.
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“Especially when people are seen with certain people. It’s like, ‘Oh, gosh. Well, I was at dinner with (Davis) last night. Does that count for anything?’ Golly. It’s just funny. But I’m used to it now. But I’ll say it this way: I look forward to taking the first snap in that stadium, and I look forward to taking every snap from here on out — until I’m done.”
Carr posted career-highs in passing yards (4,054), yards per attempt (7.9), completion percentage (70.4) and QBR (63.7) in 2019, but the Raiders still fell short of making the playoffs.
