Mark Davis Tried to Make a Joke About Conversation With Tom Brady But it's Obvious Raiders Are Targeting Him

The now Las Vegas Raiders could be moving on from Derek Carr at quarterback, and they might have their eyes fixed upon unrestricted free agent Tom Brady.

Raiders owner Mark Davis was seen talking with Brady during UFC 246 in Las Vegas last weekend. When asked about the topic of conversation, Davis (attempted) to make a joke, claiming that he was discussing how Brady was going to fight Manny Pacquiao during the debut of the Raiders' new stadium.

I also asked #Raiders owner Mark Davis what he and @TomBrady talked about last weekend. "Oh," Davis said with a wink, "that was about Tom was going to fight [Manny] Pacquiao here to open the stadium."
— Paul Gutierrez (@PGutierrezESPN) January 23, 2020

Yeah...it's painfully obvious the Raiders want to make a run at Brady. And it would make sense from a football perspective, not just a marketing one.

The Raiders currently have Derek Carr entrenched as their starter. While he's certainly a serviceable quarterback in this league, there are legit concerns that he has hit his ceiling. Brady is coming off the worst season that he's had in over a decade, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone that would pick Carr ahead of him going into the 2020 season.

Derek Carr has had enough of the rumors that someone else, like Tom Brady, will be the quarterback of the Raiders https://t.co/1oNwCjDzaP
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 23, 2020

The Raiders will have to do some pretty impressive salary cap gymnastics to get rid of Carr's contract and bring Brady to Vegas, but you couldn't get a better marquee star to introduce football to the people of Nevada than TB12.