Carson Palmer: Should Oakland Raiders Never Have Acquired Him to Begin With?
April 3, 2013 · D.J. O'Connor · Jump to comments
The Carson Palmer experiment in Oakland has officially ended (via CBS Sports) with the Raiders sending Palmer plus a draft pick to the Arizona Cardinals for two draft picks.
It doesn't seem so long ago that the Oakland Raiders were a team that was almost a shoe-in to make the playoffs after acquiring Palmer in a trade from the Cincinnati Bengals.
This occurred in the middle of the 2011 season. The Raiders were at one point a 7-4 team in sole possession of the AFC West. Then the Raiders lost four of their last five games while Tim Tebow had his one-hit wonder of a season to knock Oakland out of the playoffs. That chain of events would send the franchise into a tailspin.
Before that tailspin, the Raiders' 2011 season had some major turbulence. On Oct. 8 of that year, Al Davis passed away. A week later, QB Jason Campbell was lost for the season to injury. The following week, Darren McFadden joined Cam...
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