David Carr effectively took Steve Smith away from me in Fantasy; good riddance, although he seems to be a very nice guy.
not a carr hater here. that was not the reason for the initial post. poor guy got the **** knocked out him for five years here in houston. i hope it works out for him.
He'll be holding a clipboard somewhere. He's good for a few downs while the starter gets his ankle wrapped. He does seem to be an o.k. guy and the Mrs. is rather hot.
Is he the biggest bust for a #1 overall draft pick? I could be drawing a blank but who else has been worse as a #1 overall draft pick? I'm not saying its all his fault (playing in Houston for 5 years and leading the NFL in getting knocked down over that span will hurt your development) but either way he has not panned out.
the mrs is pretty not hot. he was definitely one of the worst busts of all time. the OL was terrible but the QB was just as big of a problem with the offense.
Certainly one of the worst #1 picks in NFL history given that Houston could have traded down stockpiled multiple picks giving their numerous needs at the time.
Carr always sucked. I had season tickets for his entire time in Houston (I refused to renew them after they didn't draft Vince) he was there and there was no doubt it was mostly his fault. For a while, Capers just wouldn't let him do anything, they just ran for no gain on first and second and then he had to throw and the other team could pin their ears back and go after him. But from day 1 he sucked at the two minute drill. When given some authority, he couldn't do it. The only people that thought he would do better elsewhere are people that had not watched him play for extended periods of time.
the line excuse is lame. Somehow behind same line marginal talent with his 4.6 40 Dominic Davis ran for 1k yards?
Running for 1k yards doesn't mean much if you're the starting RB and you don't miss games with injury.
Not to mention the fact that an OL being good at run blocking and bad at pass blocking isn't exactly impossible. That being said, Carr sucked. I watched him play once live (the VY OT run) from the end of the field and his field vision was crap. He had open guys down the field, or at least down the field in the NFL sense meaning 10-15 yards, but would always check down to a shorter option. It's like he had trained himself to have his face oriented to where it appeared like he was looking downfield but he wasn't actually looking. The question is whether or not this was just the way he was from the beginning or if he had it beaten into him his first few years in the league. Either way he should have been able to get over it.
One of the biggest #1 overall busts of all time. The guy was hyped up by the media after nobody had ever heard of the guy. He never played against elite talent in college and that showed in the NFL. Alex Smith of the 49'ers is on the very same track. He's about to get benched in favor of some nobody 3rd stringer.
Just for grins... I looked up Free Agent QBs who would have been available prior to the 2003 Draft in case the Texans wanted to go with an experienced signal caller. The only ones even worth considering.... Jake Delhomme, Trent Dilfer, and Gus Frerotte. Funny enough, Carr wound up being Delhomme's backup in the end.
barring trading down, houston made the 'right' pick for carr at the time of the pick. he was the #1 on just about any and all draft boards. he was a very good college QB. he did not suck. then, houston did him the non-favor of not getting any OL, followed by not getting any real running threat and no WR threat until Andre Johnson (great pick). That OL still sucks and doesn't have any player that would start on more than half the teams in the league. You saw Matt Schaub running for his life this year, too. No, David Carr did not always suck. Yes, David Carr does now suck. Yes, passing on a QB in 2005 was dumb. No, Matt Schaub and Sage Rosenfels are not the answers.
Yes the line was bad, yes Capers put him in a no win situation with the conservative game plans,and yes he got the crap beat out of him. He was also one of the last players to the locker room in the morning, one of the first to leave, might have watched less film than any quarterback in the league, seemed more interested in making the cover of GQ than the Pro-Bowl, and was far more interested in spending time with his family than learning blitz pick-ups and the proper check downs. There is nothing wrong with a man putting his family first, but he was made an instant millionaire by the Texans and given a job that only 31 other people in the country held. Maybe the Texans were at fault, but so was David. It is not a job you can do from 9 to 5. Why did Troy Aikman wait to get married until after he finished playing ball? Is it an accident that Brady and the Mannings are film junkies?
