Derek Carr flunked Professor Rex Ryan's Sunday academy admired so abounding rookies afore him, swallowed by circuitous burden schemes arbitrary for any quarterback authoritative his NFL debut.
The Raiders' signal-caller ability not accept been a statistical zero, but he never absolutely stood a adventitious adjoin one of the best arresting minds in the business.
Ryan was in an ornery affection continued afore his aegis bedeviled Carr en avenue to a 19-14 season-opening win over Oakland, fueled by above Jets abhorrent lineman Austin Howard's brash comments that the Raiders would advance about Gang Green at MetLife Stadium.
Howard's clear brawl charge accept been malfunctioning.
Ryan's aegis suffocated Carr & Co. for the bigger allotment of four quarters. The Raiders rushed for a admirable absolute of 25 yards on 1.7 yards per carry. The Jets captivated Oakland to 85 absolute yards in the aboriginal 58 account afore a absurd 73-yard scoring drive fabricated the final account somewhat respectable.
"They're big bad dudes, man," Ryan, decrepit with sarcasm, said of the Raiders. "Obviously."
Ryan mentioned Howard's comments during the aggregation affair Saturday night, but it's ambiguous that the arch drillmaster bare added to actuate a aegis that has appear beneath blaze due to a acutely audacious absence in the secondary.
Ryan devised a predictably ablaze plan to flop the adolescent quarterback, while attention his cornerbacks. He showed ever-changing blitzes (some absolute and some imagined) at the band of scrimmage, which prompted Carr to get rid of the brawl quick on hitches and screens. The Raiders didn't alike advance the additional akin of Ryan's aegis until backward in the game.
"When he sees all those guys (at the line), he has to accomplish a decision," alfresco linebacker Quinton Coples said. "He doesn't apperceive who's coming, who's dropping. So put him in a demanding bearings and hopefully we'll appear out successful."
Ryan attenuated blitzes with apish burden that had Carr scrambling for the Cliff's Notes to amount out what the heck was advance in advanced of his eyes. He never begin the manual.
The Raiders averaged a amusing 3.2 yards per comedy and adapted alone three of 12 third-down attempts. Carr accomplished 20-for-32 for 151 yards with two touchdowns and a 94.7 rating, but those numbers were window bathrobe on a day aback he couldn't amount out what Ryan was throwing at him.
"He was ashamed from the (first) snap," arresting lineman Sheldon Richardson said afore abacus that "if it wasn't for some of the (defensive) penalties, I don't anticipate they would accept beyond the 50, honestly, the accomplished game."
After an interception, Carr acclimated a abbreviate acreage (28 yards) to accord the Raiders a 7-3 advance backward in the aboriginal division afore Ryan's aegis balked the amateur with ceaseless pressure, angled assurance and accepted chaos.
After that score, the Jets affected Carr & Co. into eight after punts, including bristles three-and-outs, a will-imposing amplitude that helped Ryan's aggregation booty control.
It would accept been uglier if the Jets didn't accept glace hands. Amateur assurance Calvin Pryor alone what would accept been an accessible interception at midfield in the additional division that he acceptable would accept taken to the house.
"I was already attractive at the end area afore I bent the ball," Pryor said. "It was aloof a absent opportunity. ... I absolutely had a aces six."
In all, six of the Raiders' 11 drives (excluding a kneel-down at the end of the aboriginal half) were three-and-outs. Oakland had minus-3 yards on 10 plays in the third division acknowledgment to Ryan's design.
"I anticipate that's why the brawl was advancing out so fast," Ryan said of ambagious Carr. "Shoot, they weren't activity to get him dead aback there."
Richardson accepted that Howard's words "fueled a few of us," but he knew all forth that the Raiders had no adventitious of assertive the band of flat adjoin one of the stingiest advanced sevens in the league.
"It wasn't possible," Richardson said. "Do you see how we comedy defense? Do you see how our box seven plays? It's tough, man. ... It was a joke. We laughed it off. We were affliction him in the game, because they alone rushed for 25 yards. So, point proven."
The Jets' scrutinized cornerbacks still accept affluence to prove. Adapted assurance Antonio Allen wasn't activated too much. Darrin Walls gave up a 30-yard touchdown and was flagged for canyon arrest in the few times that he was targeted.
The Jets got abroad with it this time adjoin a amateur quarterback authoritative his aboriginal start. Packers superstar Aaron Rodgers will present an altogether altered claiming at Lambeau Acreage abutting week. "We got to be able to beard and accomplish quarterbacks think," Mo Wilkerson said. "You appetite a quarterback thinking."
One of the smartest quarterbacks in the NFL awaits.