{"id":402783,"date":"2023-02-07T19:51:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=402783"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:36:05","slug":"raiders-grant-derek-carr-permission-to-meet-with-saints-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raiders-grant-derek-carr-permission-to-meet-with-saints-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders grant Derek Carr permission to meet Saints &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/las-vegas-raiders\/\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> granted quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/derek-carr\/\">Derek Carr<\/a> permission to talk to the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-orleans-saints\/\">New Orleans Saints<\/a>&#8216; representatives, who recently invited him for a visit, according to reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Saints<\/a> invited QB Derek Carr for a visit and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Raiders<\/a> have granted permission for that to happen. The plan is for a visit tomorrow. Carr, who has a no-trade clause, is doing due diligence and no trade is imminent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kMSPW2NKaT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kMSPW2NKaT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1623104245615693824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Carr, whose contract has a no-trade clause, will reportedly visit the Saints on Wednesday as the veteran signal-caller is doing due diligence, and no trade is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders and Carr are parting ways after a disappointing 2022 campaign in which the team compiled a 6-11 record despite making several high-profile acquisitions in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Carr has been the Las Vegas&#8217; starting quarterback since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders are expected to cut the veteran signal-caller or find a trade partner for him by Feb. 15, the deadline for when his $40.4 million in salary for the next two years becomes fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterback said last week that he doesn&#8217;t intend to push his contract deadline to help facilitate a deal.<\/p>\n<p>If Carr joins the Saints, he&#8217;ll reunite with head coach Dennis Allen, the Raiders&#8217; sideline boss when they drafted the quarterback in the second round in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Carr completed just 60.8% of his passes for 3,522 yards and 24 touchdowns against 14 interceptions this season while posting a 6-9 record as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders benched him for their final two games of the campaign and permitted him to walk away from the team to avoid being a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints started the 2022 campaign with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/jameis-winston\/\">Jameis Winston<\/a> at quarterback but turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/andy-dalton\/\">Andy Dalton<\/a> after Winston went down with multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans went 7-10 in 2022 and missed the playoffs for the second straight season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Raiders granted quarterback Derek Carr permission to talk to the New Orleans Saints&#8216; representatives, who recently invited him for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":402784,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17261,16755,16920],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Raiders and Carr are parting ways after a disappointing 2022 campaign","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402783"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=402783"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=402783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}