Buster: K Daniel Carlson

Daniel Carlson was lights out last season, hitting 15 straight and missing just one field goal as a Raider. That success continued over the first half of this season, with him missing just one field goal the first seven games. Come Week 9, he missed a 45-yard field goal. Carlson would end up missing a field goal in six of the final nine games.

Every single game last season in which he had more than one field goal attempt, he would miss one of them. And those weren’t all outside 50 yards either. He missed once inside 40 yards, five times inside 50, and both of his attempts outside 50 yards. He even missed a couple point-after attempts. That’s horrendous.

Buster: RT Brandon Parker

Remember that significant dropoff at right tackle from Trent Brown? Thy name is Brandon Parker. His horrible play as a rookie was the reason the Raiders made Brown the highest paid offensive lineman in history and placed him on the right side.

You would hope he would have improved enough in his second season to step in to relieve Brown. Nope. Parker looked just as out of his element as he did when he first stepped foot on the field as a rookie. He was a “Buster” in all three of his starts before being benched for David Sharpe. How Parker ever got three starts over Sharpe is a real mystery.

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