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ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Khalil Mack has given the Oakland Raiders a motto to live by this season: By any means.No matter what hurdles have presented themselves, the Raiders have proved adept at dealing with them.Three early starts in the first four weeks. A full week in Florida between road games. A home game at high altitude in Mexico City.Then came the latest example on Sunday against Carolina. The Raiders came into the game on a short week after beating Houston in Mexico City, while the Panthers had extra time off following a Thursday game.Quarterback Derek Carr then hurt the pinkie on his throwing hand on the second play of the second half, helping spur 25 straight points by the Panthers before Carr led a late comeback and Mack sealed the 35-32 win Sunday with a strip sack.By any means.Ive even borrowed it a couple of times. It rubs off, coach Jack Del Rio said Monday. You like it, right? It makes sense. Because whatever we have to do, by any means. Its awesome and its really been what weve been about.The Raiders (9-2) have lived by that motto to move to the top of the standings in the AFC. They lead Kansas City by one game in the division and are tied with New England for the best record in the conference.Not that it has come easy. Seven of the nine wins have come by seven points or fewer and Carr has led five fourth-quarter comebacks already this season. The latest came Sunday when he came back from the injury to tie the game midway through the fourth quarter with a TD pass to Clive Walford and a 2-point conversion to Seth Roberts and then won it with an 82-yard drive to set up Sebastian Janikowskis game-winning field goal.One of the things I really love about the NFL is the extreme highs and lows and we got a good dose of those yesterday, Del Rio said. Always best when you finish with a win.Its just the latest clutch performance from Carr, who has thrived under pressure this season. He has completed 80 of 118 passes (67.8 percent) for 1,109 yards (9.4 yards per attempt), 10 TDs, one interception and a 122.5 passer rating when tied or trailing in the fourth quarter or overtime.The latest comeback might have been most impressive because of the pain he dealt with after jamming his finger on a fumbled snap. He managed to come back in after missing one series with a glove on his right hand and taking all snaps from the shotgun and there seemed to be no long-term effects from the injury.Im doing good. Im doing good, Carr said Monday on his weekly appearance on 95.7 The Game radio station . Obviously its a little sore, but thats expected. But should be good. Just get some swelling down and well be all right.The Raiders are counting on that if they want to end a 13-year playoff drought and make a run come January. They already are having their best season since winning the AFC in 2002 and have realistic hopes of doing much more.First they will have to negotiate a tough closing stretch to the season starting with a home game against Buffalo on Sunday. Oakland then has three road division games in the final four weeks, including a Thursday night game against the second-place Chiefs on Dec. 8, as well as the home finale against Indianapolis on Christmas Eve.But those are on the back burner for now.Right now everything were doing is all about Buffalo, Del Rio said. Its all about Buffalo leading up to this weekend.Game notes Del Rio said he still expects DL Mario Edwards Jr. to return this season from a hip injury sustained in the exhibition opener on Aug. 12. ... Del Rio had no update on the status of CB DJ Hayden, who left Sundays game with a hamstring injury. ... CB David Amerson tested out his injured knee before the game but was not made active. 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Everybodys making money except the players. Were the ones waking up early as hell to be the best teams and do everything they want us to do and then the players get nothing. They say education, but if Im there for a year, I cant get much education.The documentary follows Simmons from his time as a prodigy in Australia to his high school career at Montverde Academy near Orlando, Florida, his one year at LSU and his journey to the NBA draft, where he was selected first overall by the Sixers.Throughout the film, Simmons wrestles with the trappings of his newfound fame. With agents and shoe companies hovering in Baton Rouge, Simmons said he had to avoid temptations.At LSU, he said he was offered a Bentley, a Wraith Rolls-Royce, watches, jewelry, a house ... anything. It literally is anything. People coming at you, offering you things.Simmons didnt say who offered him those gifts, which would have made him ineligible to compete in college. On a trip to a shoe store, he quips that a salesman would let me take whatever if he asked.His mother, Julie Simmons, claims she feared the NCAA would eventually unravel her sons stint at LSU. But his sister, Emily Bush, says she has receipts for every item Simmons purchased while he attended the school. But that doesnt mean the family approves of the regulations.If you get a kid whos a child prodigy and plays the violin amazingly, no ones saying to them you must go to college for a year before you join the philharmonnic orchestra, Julie Simmons said in the film.ddddddddddddFriction in the family is evident in the film as Bush begins to manage her superstar brothers career and minimize the role of their parents. But the documentary focuses on his collegiate experience and contempt for the NCAA and its standards.Simmons was barred from the Wooden Awards final list after he failed to achieve a 2.0 GPA. He was also benched for four-plus minutes of a conference matchup for missing a class.In one scene, filmed last season, Simmons said he had no intention of attending class after he became eligible for the second semester.I got Bs and Cs; Im not going to class next semester because I dont need to, Simmons said. ... Im here to play, Im not here to go to school.Collegiate athletes who are eligible by the end of first semester can also compete in the second semester, even if their academics slip. Simmons admits he stopped caring about class.[Coach] Jones said, We need to make up a punishment if you miss another class, Simmons said. I missed my next class about preparing for better study habits. Im going to the NBA next season. Why bull---- if its not going to help me?Simmons also said the NCAA used him to make money, so he planned to become a voice for college athletes after he left LSU.The NCAA is messed up, Simmons said. I dont have a voice. ... I dont get paid to do it. Dont say Im an amateur and make me take pictures and sign stuff and go make hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars off one person. ... Im going off on the NCAA. Just wait, just wait. I can be a voice for everybody in college. Im here because I have to be here [at LSU]. ... I cant get a degree in two semesters, so its kind of pointless. I feel like Im wasting time. ' ' '