I didn't mean to imply he never has time — clearly, even the worst offensive lines will protect here and there during a game — but on average, the time isn't there, imo. And, on the occasions it is, I believe Carr's mental clock (in terms of the time he thinks he has in the pocket) is definitely out of sorts. Don't take this as an endorsement of Carr or a thread dealing with that — I think he's gone. But, imo, the bad habits of not going through progressions that Carr developed would also be developed by whoever we bring in, imo, until the protection is significantly upgraded. As a result, I think the Texans would definitely be better suited to use Moulds' money on legit offensive linemen, if that's the plan.
my god, the anti-carr crowd reminds of the jfk conspiracists - if they bump into a wall of sound, rational thinking, they just expand their net of hysteria. so now carr locking in on our undeniably best offensive player is considered a bad thing.....?
you were the first person to mention carr in this thread and then you get upset when someone replies? talk about rational
Has a QB locking onto a single receiver, let alone the same receiver all the time, ever been considered a good thing? That's one of the absolute worst things a QB can do, no matter how good the receiver might be.
when plans b-f are rookie owen daniels and then eric moulds, kevin walter, ron dayne, edell shepard, jeb putzier, uhm... i mean, last year, he didn't get andre johnson the ball enough; this year, he locked in on him too much...
While the anti-Carr crowd is certainly guilty of such disingenuous arguments, I can't see how anyone can argue that Carr was good at reading defenses and going through his progressions.
I ahve faith that one the Texans are going to be a good franchise, keeping/cutting Moulds isn't going to affect that one way or another. He seemed a good guy so I hope he catches on somewhere where winning the SB is the first goal but the fact is the Texans are miles from the playoffs let alone SB at this point.
i hear ya. i've just heard it said so many times that if carr had more time it would be different. even when carr has time, it's not very different. in fact, he makes the same mistakes. by now, you should have seen more. that may very well be the OL's fault at the origin...but we're so far passed that now, it's hardly worth mentioning if you're considering the future.
how long are we gonna keep saying this, though? we can make this excuse to keep from upgrading anything...or maintaining anything positive at all. "well, we won't win the super bowl next year, so it doesn't matter if we improve at (insert position here)."
how in the world could any of us have enough insight to make such a judgement? he may very well suck at it; or, he may be very good at it, and his teammates are incapable of carrying out their assignments. i mean, who knows? we certainly don't. did linemen pick up the proper read? did WRs run to the proper spot? did RBs pick up the blitz? i mean, there're dozens of things that could go wrong on any given play - we all just assume carr's mostly responsible and i don't believe its ever that easy. btw, slightly shifting gears - this was posted on our board - supposedly [grain of salt time] the push to get carr out of town is actually coming from.... carr, or so his brother is strongly suggesting on the official boards. the sentiment is that he wants to go to a team with more talent; that he has yet to fill the texans have provided him enough... it certainly puts an interesting spin on things...
this baffles me. moulds was a great compliment to AJ. our 2nd reciever is KEVIN WALTER!? god be with whoever our QB is next year, he is SCREWED.
I wish it wasn't so but the foundation of this team was garbage from the get go, until that is repaired with resasonably young and gifted talent you could have the entire rosters filled with used to be talented players and the team still won't win. It will take two, three years of good drafting before adding players like Eric Moulds should be considered a good thing. Personally were I Texans management when looking at potential F.A. signings 26 maybe 27 would be the cutoff age for players I would consider dumping big money on. Of course managment can't do this because they have to look like they are trying to win now. But until the nucleus of the team has been developed free agency should be avoided unless there is a young player who is already good enough to be considered without question a guy who can lock down his position for years to come. Right now, I would say we have, tops, five players who could be considered building blocks for the future, that needs to be expanded big time. I wish there was some magic formula that would make us contendors next season but unfortunately, that will only come from years of good decisions a nail on the head drafting.
I certainly don't have enough insight. I've read it and heard it, however, for five years and from multitudinous sources. In those five years, there has been almost 100% turnover among OL, WR, and TE. There are two common denominators: poor response to defense, and David Carr.
If its Carr, it will be another excuse to use for him. Unless it was for financial (cap) reasons I don't understand getting rid of Moulds.
I'm not saying I want Carr to come back, but it's quite a lot to expect him to morph into some great and productive QB on the rare times he actually has time to throw. I think Carr is done here in Houston, but let's not act like it wouldn't have happened to 95% of the QBs out there had they played behind the same OLs that Carr has.
