Most the article is about another QB, Joey Harrington but it talks about Carr as well. David Carr very well looks like he is the #1 pick. Here are some of the stuff they had to say about Carr. There was one drill Sunday in which receivers were asked to do slant routes at roughly 11-yard depth. Carr's job was to drop back seven steps and rifle the ball. Instead, Carr stepped up an extra yard or two and added more velocity to his throws. Crash. Bang. Boom. Clank. Receivers were dropping balls as though they were hot missiles. Carr's throws were accurate. They were just too hard too hand. The coaches who were working the receivers begged Carr for mercy. He was killing their receivers. "Poor guys, I feel bad for them," Carr said. "They were saying you were beating up our guys." "Carr's really out there, he's a freak," Rams coach Mike Martz said in praise of Carr's talents. "Carr is just a strong-armed quarterback," Ravens coach Brian Billick said. "He has a little lower delivery than most ... but then it's like, find somebody that throws like Favre. No one throws like that." http://sports.espn.go.com/nfldraft/columnist?id=1345070
It seems there is little to question about his skills. How long will it take him to pick up things like: Reading defenses? Throwing the ball away instead of trying to thread the needle? Clock management? Sometimes it takes these really talented QB's longer to figure these things out. Being good in college is one thing, the NFL is an entirely different set of circumstances.
Bob -- agreed...but the advantage to Carr is that he was 5th year senior in a pro style offense. this is not like converting steve mcnair to the NFL....the difference for Carr will be the speed of the game...but if you saw Carr play in college you already know he looks off receivers well...
I still believe in Carr, but Kiper is saying that Harrington outpayed him at the combine. Anybody have access to that article?
kiper's a tool. he also inexplicably jumped mike williams ahead of bryant mckinnie prior to the combine despite both having been inactive for nearly three months. what could he have possibly based that on? and then williams showed up at the combine overweight and with a partially torn ACL. way to go, mel. mel sells mel, that's all he does. he shakes things up, prefers shock value, gets his name thrown around. but he's virtually worthless as a legitimate source of information. maybe harrington did outplay carr, wouldn't shock me. unlike carr, harrington has no idea where he's going in the draft, so he still needs to impress people. carr wasn't even going to attend until the texans' staff talked him into it. in terms of talent, any scout will tell you there's a definte gap between carr and harrington.
A-freakin-men. Mel has had some questionable rankings, IMO. Sometimes I think he does it for the controversy or pure shock value involved. Regarding the QBs, Mel has had Harrington ahead of Carr for quite some time. Either it's a natural bias, or Harrington did do better at the combine, therefore validating Kiper's earlier rankings. Personally, I think that even if Harrington stunk up the place at the combine, he'd still be ahead of Carr in Kiper's eyes (even if his "Big Board" says otherwise).
most of the comments i've read so far about Carr from the combine indicate he was pretty impressive...apparently Martz from St. Louis loves him.
