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Carson Palmer is out to show last season was a fluke

Found August 09, 2012 on 60 Max Power O: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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When QB Carson Palmer was traded to the Oakland Raiders and thrown into the mix after Jason Campbell went down, he says he just basically winged it without having a chance to get acclimated to the offense. This year will be very different, he tells the Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury-News. "No comparison,… I mean, no comparison." He says he never had a chance to get comfortable under Hue Jackson. "I didn't even read every page in the playbook," he said. "I didn't have a chance. I didn't even read 50 percent of it. I was just trying to read the plays I was hoping (coach Hue Jackson) would call." Apparently, Jackson called the other half of the plays Palmer didn’t get a chance to read. In 10 games in Oakland, he had 13 TDs, 16 INTs and was sacked 17 times. "When you go back and look at it, the first game I played in, I never even watched a snap of tape of Kansas City, because I wasn't going to play," Palmer sai...
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