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Stephen A.: ‘Football is better to watch when the Raiders are relevant!’ | First Take

THEY LEFT EARLY. MOLLY: PISTONS HAVE A GREAT NEW PLAYER, TOO. THE RAIDERS ARE STILL UNDEFEATED AS THEY DOWN THE DOLPHINS IN OVERTIME. DEREK CARR CONTINUES TO PUT UP BIG NUMBERS THROWING FOR 386 YARDS AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND RAIDERS 3-0 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2002. THE LAST TIME THE FRANCHISE MADE IT TO THE SUPER BOWL IS WHAT FUELED THEM THIS YEAR IS OFFENSE. THE 90 POINTS SCORED ARE THE MOST THROUGH THREE GAMES IN 10 YEARS AND THEIR AVERAGE OF 471 YARDS PER GAME IS THE BEST THROUGH THREE GAMES IN FRANCHISE HISTORY. MICHAEL IRVIN, TALK TO ME. ARE THE RAVENS FOR REAL? MICHAEL: LISTEN, THE RAIDERS FOR THE FIRST TIME, FIRST TIME IN THEIR HISTORY, HISTORY STARTING 3-0 IN EVERY TEAM THAT THEY WON FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR WON 10 GAMES.

SINCE THAT, IT'S INCREDIBLE. AND YOU'RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW, I MEAN, THE REAL MAKING OR THE REAL ARRIVING, I HAVE SAY OF DEREK CARR. HE'S HERE NOW AND STARTED TO BECOME THE GUY WE ALL THOUGHT AND HOPED HE COULD BE. I THINK CHUCKY WAS LOSING HIS BITE. MOLLY: TOOK ME A SECOND TO REMEMBER WHO HE WAS AND I GOT IT. MICHAEL: CHUCKY WAS LOSING HIS BITE AND HE HAD IT ALL AND EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE CHUCKY WHEN HE DID THE QUARTERBACK SCHOOL, EVERYBODY, HE'S SO GREAT WITH IT AND THEN HE GETS THIS TEAM AND GETS DEREK CARR WHO WE TALKED ABOUT IN QUARTERBACK SCHOOL AND WOULD LOVE TO COACH AND GET HIM AND HE WASN'T DOING ANYTHING BUT THIS YEAR'S DIFFERENT AND HE HAS HIS TEAM. THE KEY TO IT IS CAN HE REMAIN CONSISTENT AND CAN THEY BE CONSISTENT? I KNOW LAWLER WILL BE CONSISTENT AND WHEN THEY GET JOSH JACOBS BACK AND BARBER, HE RAN FOR REAL.

THAT DEFENSE YESTERDAY, STOP MIAMI IN THAT RED ZONE LIKE THAT, THAT'S THE DEFENSE THAT SAYS WE ARE FOR REAL. I LIKE WHERE THE RAVENS ARE GOING. I LIKE WHERE THE RAVENS ARE. STEPHEN A.: WHATEVER. I GOT TO SEE TO BELIEVE IT. LET'S STOP RIGHT THERE. THRILLER MONDAY NIGHT TO OPEN THE SEASON FOR THE RAVENS AND GIVE THEM CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE AND THEN UP AGAINST THE STEELERS WHICH WE ALL LAMENT IS A SHELL OF WHAT THEY USED TO BE OR WHO I THOUGHT THEY'D BE, OK. SO THE RAIDERS EXPOSED THEM IN THE STEEL CITY AT HEINZ FIELD AND WE GET ALL THAT. THEN AGAINST MIAMI, NO TUA TAGOVAILOA, NOT THAT IT WOULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE AND YOU HAVE JACOBY BRISSETT THE QUARTERBACK WHO DECIDES TO GIVE THEM TWO POINTS, I DON'T KNOW BRIAN FLORES OR SOMEBODY ELSE. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THROWING THE FOOTBALL TO A DUDE IN YOUR OWN END ZONE WITHOUT A SINGLE BLOCKER IN FRONT OF HIM AND THAT GETS A SAFETY? THAT IS A TWO-POINT SAFETY AND CUE HAVE WON THE GAME IN REGULAR NATION AND NEITHER HERE NOR THERE.

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