var _ndnq = _ndnq || []; _ndnq.push([’embed’]);

ALAMEDA — Derek Carr didn’t offer a specific timetable, but said he fully expects to be ready for the offseason program and “absolutely” would’ve played if the Raiders had reached the Super Bowl.

Carr, speaking Sunday to local media for the first time since breaking his fibula on Christmas Eve, also admitted it’s tough to watch the playoffs go on without him and the Raiders.

“I said ‘what if?’, I said, ‘why?’ a lot in the last two weeks,” Carr said as he and his teammates packed up their lockers and headed home for the offseason. “But I can promise you, I’ve been the same person.

“It’s obviously hurt me. Some days, I’ve been really down and sad, but it doesn’t change who I am. It just hurts.”

Carr was unable to travel to the Raiders’ game on Saturday in Houston because of the risk of swelling — “It would set me back weeks” — so he watched at home along with former teammate Rod Streater, who played last season with the 49ers.

“I just feel for my brothers,” Carr said. “We all put so much work together in an offseason and during the season, you just want to be out there.”

Without diving into specifics, Carr said the healing process is going faster than expected — and definitely better than the so-called Twitter doctors have said.

“I see doctors on Twitter tagging me,” Carr cracked. “They don’t have a clue what’s going on. It’s weird. With no X-rays or MRIs they’ve figured it out. If he can do that, he shouldn’t be on Twitter. He should be working at Stanford or something.”

While the Raiders may hold him back, Carr said he’ll be physically ready to go when the offseason program starts in mid-April.

“I’ll be ready for offseason,” he said. “Now how they’ll want me to do and things like that, I don’t know. Obviously, in the offseason you always take it as slow as possible now that we don’t have a chance of playing. So we’ll take it as slow as possible but I anticipate being fine.”

Coach Jack Del Rio wasn’t ready to commit to any Carr timeline.

“I don’t know yet,” Del Rio said. “I know he was thinking he was going to play in the Super Bowl. ‘If you guys get there, I’m playing.’ That being the mindset, he’s coming along nicely. I don’t want to guess on anything though, and if he’s not there you’re asking me why. I think we’ll see. I think he’s got time to do it right, recover the right way, and we’ll expect he’ll be back at full strength soon.”

Carr is rightfully excited about the Raiders’ bright future, even if 12-win seasons like this one are far from guaranteed.

“Our team is going to be back,” Carr said. “We’re going to add pieces like we do every year. I just got done meeting with (quarterbacks) coach (Todd) Downing on the things I need to be better at. The things that were on there, the good things were really good but the things I need to get better at are the things I’m going to work my butt off. That always stays between him and I, but I’m going to work my tail off to be better next year. That’s the mindset our whole team has.”

— Along with the uncertainty of free agency, Carr said he’s hoping running back Latavius Murray is back.

“You don’t know what upstairs is thinking, you don’t know what they want to do,” Carr said. “We all know that we want him back. We love him. He’s one of my best friends in this whole world. Not just because he can run the ball, but because he can pick up blitzes.”

— On Donald Penn, whose first sack allowed this season was the play on which Carr got hurt: “I just gave him a hug and said, ‘Man, I love you bro. It’s never going to change.’ I said, ‘I’m not mad at you. It wasn’t your fault. That happened for a reason.'”