Raiders 40, Seahawks 34
Q. Second straight overtime walk-off. How good does it feel just to be able to put something together like that?
DEREK CARR: Yeah, it was good. Again, it reaffirms the things that we've been talking about. It reaffirms the things Josh has been talking to us about. The exciting thing is after the game of course we're excited, of course, but it's like everyone is sitting there talking about man, I could have done this or I could have done that, and that's what's going to push us to be better as an organization for the long-term and push us to be better as a team in the short-term.
Q. Along those lines, there were some responses; you got stuck on a 4th down, there were some opportunities that didn't go your way, but you guys didn't hang your head and let that define the game and you bounced back --
DEREK CARR: Yeah, and it's pro football. You want it to be perfect all the time. The nine years I've been in the league, no matter who's on the roster, when you come to Seattle it's a tough game. We came here, we knew it was going to be tough, and they made plays, and then we made some plays at the end to bounce back and answer back.
It was a great football game. It was tough. It was hard. It was a little cold, too, and it was good to see our guys be able to answer back even when it didn't go our way. No one was hanging our head or it was over or anything like that. I think the confidence from last week, too, to know that, hey, we're never out of it, so I think that was a good thing for us.
Q. Foster had a play that didn't go his way earlier in the game, but you didn't show any hesitancy to go to him when it was on the line for the game-tying touchdown. Just talk about that and the confidence in spite of it didn't go his way earlier, that that didn't affect how you were going to attack him moving forward.
DEREK CARR: Yeah, and I mean, that's a ball -- that's going to be a tough catch for him to make, but it's something that I trust him with, and him and Darren and all the tight ends running up the seam, just trying to throw it where the linebacker can't see it. They made a good play. So I told him we're not losing confidence in that. That's on me, too; I was trying to make it hard. I could have checked it down. I was trying to be aggressive and make a throw.
So when they doubled -- they were playing quarters to Tay's side and they ended up trying to double Tay and they let Foster get behind them, and I just to give him a ball to where he could just make a play on the ball, however it looked, and get his feet down, and he came up huge for us in that moment for sure.
Q. Josh had 303 all-purpose yards, set a franchise record, set the franchise rushing record, too, with 229 yards rushing, as well. How important is what he brings to this offense to the goals you want to accomplish?
DEREK CARR: Yeah, I think the best thing I can talk about him and I've talked about with you guys over the last year and a half or so is that mentality. That mentality that he brings and that mindset, the way he runs and the way he over and over and over again is finishing not just downhill but through people. He's always finishing forward. 2nd and 8 in this league is way different than 2nd and 5, 2nd and 4. Him bringing that mindset and how hard he's worked, all those things, I said at the beginning of the year when we added Davante, I said the happiest person in the building besides me is going to be Josh Jacobs, and we're seeing the fruits of that now.
Q. The field goal in overtime, how much confidence did you have the defense was going to get the ball back to you?
DEREK CARR: I had great confidence. We had been -- again, you see the points and you see the yards and you see certain things, but there's always -- again, it's pro football. It's the next play. What's their call, what's our call, what's our execution, and I think it was Max I was watching on the thing, but came free, and they were putting pressure on him, trying to make it tough, and we ended up getting the ball back.
For me, the confidence level is high. Just like it hurts because you want that to be the game over, but at the same time, it's like, if we get another chance at this, we still have to go win the game, and Josh was able to do that on that run.
Q. At what point did you know he was going to the house?
DEREK CARR: As soon as he broke the tackle. I saw him get through. I knew what coverage they were playing. As soon as I see him get through, it was really him and the safety. If he beats him, it's a big play.
I think going back and looking at the double team, looking at Jakob in a lead play like that, I'm sure Josh will want to give all those guys credit, but he made that last guy miss to be able to take it to the house. I didn't run down there because I know how fast he is, but then at the end I saw 27 trying to run down there and I was like, please don't get caught because I've got to run 80 yards to come do the next play.
To see him finish like that, I know what he's been dealing with. I know how hard he works. It's really cool to see that.
Q. He said also he didn't have breakaway speed there.
DEREK CARR: That's what I've heard, but his Madden rating on speed should go up after that. To do it at the end of the game, to win it, to run that far -- you see running backs get free a lot, and some guys it's not their style or whatever, and to see Josh be able to finish like that was really cool.
Q. That throw to Ameer, was there an option to throw it to him earlier than that, because it looked like he turned to look at you and then you guys both sort of --
DEREK CARR: Yeah, that was almost -- soccer is a free-flowing game, right, and sometimes football -- when I looked at him, I thought Quandre -- I think it was Quandre on that play, I thought he would make the tackle and the timing, so I kind of just look at Ameer and he looked at me and then hit the gas because he was coming downhill, and that was all Ameer, being able to think what I was thinking. So it was not planned that way. I just didn't want him to get hit short of the sticks right there, and he made a great play.
Q. Raider Nation travels, two back-to-back road games, they were here in the stadium today. Do you have a message for Raider Nation?
DEREK CARR: Yeah, everyone that showed up today, that was loud. It was unbelievable. Obviously the stadium is loud already, but when we were making plays, it was pretty impressive to hear how many of our fans were here.
The support -- we had a whole bunch of Raider fans behind our bench, after bad plays they're like, you guys are good, we're going to win the game, all that kind of stuff. Anytime you're in a hostile place and you hear those things, it always means something.
We appreciated everybody that traveled, and my friend that sits in the front row, Seahawks fan, he's yelled at me for nine years now, but I had a good talk with him, too, so that was good.
Q. You guys didn't give up. There were some dark times here earlier this year, but obviously you haven't lost that fight. What does that say about what Josh is trying to build and what's in that locker room?
DEREK CARR: I think it shows that we believe in him and we're trying to do everything right. Again, it's new schemes. It's a new philosophy to play the game and there's different rules for certain things. I messed something up today where I was like, he got mad, and I was like, what are you talking about, I was right. And then I had to think, oh, that's a couple systems ago. I'm still processing through some of that and certain things, but it's just growth, and we're all just trying to do things the right way and do them his way.
It shows that everyone is believing in that and trying to do them that way. For me, I'm trying to execute the reads and everything exactly how he wants it. So is the whole team. You can tell everyone is believing and buying into that because of the success we're starting to have. It doesn't mean anything now. We still don't have a good record. But we're heading in the right direction.
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