Two weeks ago, Geno Smith took full responsibility for the Raiders’ 16-33 loss to the Cowboys. “Blame it on me,” he said. Head coach Pete Carroll, who brought Smith to Las Vegas from Seattle, took those words seriously. With the Raiders currently at 2-10, Carroll made his perspective clear on his quarterback amid the chaos.

“He’s [Geno] been around long enough to know he’s going to carry the burden and be the one everybody points the finger at,” Carroll said. “So I wanted to make sure and stay with him and hang through that. Get him back to his football and back where he could play really clean. And he really has turned the corner in that regard.”

The Raiders’ season has been painful to watch so far. They’ve been nowhere close to the team fans hoped for after Carroll’s arriva

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