After Week 12 Statement Win, There’s No Denying Derek Carr’s MVP Credentials

November 29, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Derek Carr's hand looked like the mangled weather vane you find in a field after a tornado splinters the old barn. His pinkie was like a Christmas tree ornament-sized rendering of Joe Theismann's leg. 
"Probably some of the worst pain I've felt in my life," Carr told reporters after his Raiders squeezed past the Panthers Sunday, 35-32. Well, of course, it was. Ruthless criminals in movies break fingers to get information, after all. If Carr's pinkie had fallen off and rolled away with the football that dislocated it, the injury would have been only slightly more gruesome. 
You know how this story ended. Carr missed one series with what turned out to be two dislocations in the pinkie of his throwing hand. He returned to the game wearing a thick black glove that looked like the kind that makes it hard to grip a snow shovel. Instead, Carr gripped a football and began threading needles and pinpointing passes. He led a touchdown drive and threw a two-point conv...

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