Carr emotional at podium after Raiders' latest loss

LAS VEGAS -- Derek Carr, rocking backmost and distant astatine the podium with tears successful his eyes and a halting voice, apologized for being "emotional" successful the aftermath of the Las Vegas Raiders' 25-20 loss to the Indianapolis Colts connected Sunday astatine Allegiant Stadium.

The Colts came successful with an interim coach who had ne'er coached supra the precocious schoolhouse level successful Jeff Saturday, an violative coordinator who had ne'er called plays earlier successful Parks Frazier and a seasoned backmost who had been benched earlier successful the play successful Matt Ryan.

Carr needed respective pauses to cod himself arsenic the Raiders backmost addressed what went connected successful the people of the decision that dropped Las Vegas' grounds to 2-7 successful a play that began with truthful overmuch committedness a twelvemonth aft going to the playoffs for conscionable the 2nd clip since 2002.

"I emotion the Silver and Black and I'm going to springiness it everything I tin each clip I spell retired there," Carr said. "And I can't talk for everybody, for each man, what's going connected successful their head, but I tin archer you what's going connected successful my caput and I'm going to springiness it each that I can, each azygous time."

Carr paused for 12 seconds earlier helium was asked if determination was a "disconnect" betwixt himself and first-year manager and violative playcaller Josh McDaniels.

"I don't deliberation so," Carr said, done tears. "I emotion Josh. I emotion our coaches. They've had thing but success. Way much occurrence than I've ever had. And I'm atrocious ..."

A choked-up Carr paused again, for 8 seconds.

"Sorry for being emotional," helium continued. "I'm conscionable pissed disconnected astir immoderate of the things, you know, that a batch of america effort and bash conscionable to practice. What we enactment our bodies through, conscionable to slumber astatine night."

Carr again paused, for 9 seconds.

"And for that to beryllium the effect of each that effort, pisses maine off," helium said. "Pisses a batch of guys off. It's hard, knowing what immoderate guys are doing ... conscionable to practice. What they're putting successful their assemblage conscionable to slumber astatine night. Just truthful we tin beryllium determination for each other. And I privation everybody successful that country felt the aforesaid mode astir this place. And arsenic a leader, that pisses maine off, if I'm being honest."

It was the sixth one-score nonaccomplishment of the play for the Raiders, tied for the third-most specified losses without a triumph successful one-score games successful a play since 2000 with the 2017 Cincinnati Bengals, down the 2001 Carolina Panthers (0-9), and 2019 Bengals (0-8), per ESPN Stats & Information research.

This aft the Raiders went 7-2 successful one-score games past play and won 4 consecutive games to decorativeness 10-7 and unit their mode into the postseason nether interim manager Rich Bisaccia and wide manager Mike Mayock. Raiders proprietor Mark Davis chose to regenerate them with New England Patriots stalwarts McDaniels and Dave Ziegler, respectively, saying the moves were made to instrumentality the Raiders "to the adjacent level."

Instead, and aft landing an All-Pro receiver successful Carr's assemblage teammate Davante Adams, the Raiders person the second-worst grounds successful the NFL, Carr looks mislaid astatine times successful McDaniels' discourtesy and the postgame locker country was rife with vexation and seeming dissension, with respective players cursing retired large and 1 apologizing to another.

Carr said the squad captains spoke to the locker country aft the game.

"Ain't nary magic message," said Adams, who had 9 catches for 126 yards, with a 48-yard catch-and-run TD. "We're going to support what was said in-house. Wasn't thing crazy, just, we had a speech arsenic a team."

Asked if players were not "buying in" to McDaniels' system, Adams shrugged.

"I don't deliberation we're like, 'F what he's talking about' or, 'I'm going against the grain,'" Adams said. "It's conscionable a substance of executing erstwhile it's time."

"It's hard, knowing what immoderate guys are doing ... conscionable to practice. What they're putting successful their assemblage conscionable to slumber astatine night. Just truthful we tin beryllium determination for each other. And I privation everybody successful that country felt the aforesaid mode astir this place. And arsenic a leader, that pisses maine off, if I'm being honest."

Raiders QB Derek Carr

Carr, who went 0-for-5 successful the archetypal quarter, the archetypal clip immoderate backmost had thrown astatine slightest 5 passes successful a 4th this play without a completion, was past 11-for-11 successful the 2nd quarter. He finished 24-of-38 for 248 yards and 2 TDs, but his last shot, a slice into the near broadside of the extremity portion for Adams connected fourth-and-7 from the Colts' 16-yard enactment with 52 seconds to play, was breached up by cornerback Stephon Gilmore.

The ninth-year seasoned said helium was not "perfect" aft the game.

"I'm ne'er going to beryllium perfect," Carr said. "But the emotion I person for this place, and the effort that I'll give, volition beryllium 2nd to none, each time.

"The emotion of conscionable 9 years of worldly deed maine today, for however overmuch I truly emotion this place. It's not going to alteration anything. I'm going to travel retired present and combat and vie adjacent week, and that's what I'm going to do."

Still, helium was booed heavy by fans arsenic his representation was shown aft the crippled arsenic helium walked disconnected the field.

"I ne'er instrumentality it personal," helium said. "I'm conscionable the 1 that's been present the longest.

"I'm huffy astatine it too, truthful don't interest astir it."

And portion speculation is moving rampant connected McDaniels' occupation security, the manager said, "It starts with me.

"So, you know, we're going to person to fig retired thing antithetic to bash to effort to get escaped from immoderate of these adjacent scores and adjacent games, and/or marque capable plays astatine the extremity to win. So it ever starts with us, starts with me, truthful I'm going to bash everything I tin bash to effort to fig retired what we tin bash to bash amended to alteration the results."