Hungry for win, Raiders look to feast on rookie QB

The Raiders are bare for a triumph aft getting their archetypal sensation of decision this play successful Los Angeles against the Chargers past week.

It’s a bully clip to person a rookie backmost connected the paper for a ravenous Raiders antiaircraft enactment looking to feast.

Defensive extremity Maxx Crosby believes his radical is poised to marque beingness hard for Bears starter Justin Fields erstwhile the crippled kicks disconnected astatine Allegiant Stadium astatine 1:05 p.m. Sunday, but they person to instrumentality attraction of the small things first.

“We speech each the clip successful the antiaircraft enactment country that it’s each astir america nary substance who we’re playing,” Crosby said. “We evidently ticker the movie and spot what we see, but it starts with us. It starts with our get-off, getting aft the backmost consistently, stopping the tally and past feasting. That’s what we person to do, nary substance who the hostile is. We’re looking guardant to the challenge.”

The program has worked. Crosby leads the league successful backmost pressures with 30 and successful walk unreserved triumph complaint astatine 29.3 percent, according to Pro Football Focus.

He’s besides the site’s second-highest graded borderline rusher.

He volition look to get aft Fields, who is making his 3rd commencement and archetypal since being named the full-time backmost by manager Matt Nagy, connected Sunday.

His archetypal came against a precise bully Browns defence and was historically bad. Fields showed betterment past week successful a triumph implicit the Lions, with respective large plays mixed with immoderate disfigured ones.

It’s the benignant of inconsistency the Bears tin astir apt expect arsenic Fields figures retired the league. The Raiders anticipation to make much downs than ups connected Sunday.

Raiders antiaircraft coordinator Gus Bradley knows the biggest alteration Fields brings to the Bears’ discourtesy is the imaginable for dynamic plays downfield.

“He keeps getting better,” Bradley said. “Very athletic, precise strong. Throws a truly bully heavy ball. He looks downfield erstwhile he’s scrambling and getting distant from the rush. So he’s been impressive.

“I deliberation the biggest stat is they’ve had similar 14 oregon 15 explosive plays connected the year, which is down, but past week they had 7 erstwhile helium was astatine quarterback. So he’s a feline that tin decidedly agelong the tract connected us.”

But helium is inactive a rookie. Raiders backmost Derek Carr knows each excessively good the trouble of learning connected the occupation astatine 1 of the astir hard positions successful each of sports.

He started each 16 games for the Raiders successful 2014 aft being drafted retired of Fresno State, finishing with a vocation debased successful QBR and limping to a 3-13 record.

Carr raves astir Fields’ imaginable but acknowledges NFL defenses get excited astir welcoming rookies to the league.

“I don’t cognize if they odor humor successful the water, but it’s conscionable a information for immoderate rookie,” Carr said. “Every crippled I was going into I knew I was seeing thing caller each time, and truthful he’ll spot a caller sum oregon caller blitz oregon a caller thing.”

One of the galore lessons Carr has learned successful his 8 seasons is however to woody with losses, an quality that has travel successful useful this week aft the Chargers handed the Raiders their archetypal nonaccomplishment Monday night.

“Well, it inactive sucks,” helium said. “I don’t footwear my dog. I deliberation I grip it honestly better. It’s not easier to grip now, but I deliberation I spell done my process better.

“Even aft wins really, you conscionable replay the things that didn’t spell right. … It inactive hurts. It inactive pains my heart. I get frustrated. Maybe my woman says I get a small quiet. But you’d alternatively triumph that’s for sure.”

Carr and his teammates person a accidental to bash that Sunday and person the close matchup to marque it happen.

Now it’s clip to eat.

Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected Twitter.