I would like to know which teams David Carr thinks he could have started for. I don't think any team would have picked him up to be the starter.
Carolina looks like an up and down team to me over the years, so I would say there is a chance. The only downside I see is a healthy Steve Smith. I think the Texans will keep it close, but lose to the Panthers.
I see this as a very low scoring nailbiter.Carolina's D will always keep them in games and they are at home.Carolina is usually better at the end of the year though...basically a tossup. Texans 10 Panthers 9 I like the under in a big way....and yes those 6 and a half are attractive as well....but I think the under is the play.
We win this game if we can limit their run game, and force a couple of turnovers by pressuring the QB. I see Delhomme and the passing game working pretty well for them, but we need to force them to pass by shutting down the run, then get to the QB and not allow big plays. For the first time in our history, I'm not worried at all about our offense. We won't put up a ton of points in this game but we'll get enough to win if the defense stays away from allowing big plays.
its important that the texans have nice drives so they can keep the defense fresh. no 3 and outs please this game is so important. i just want it to be close at the end so we can have a shot to win it
Haha! That reminds me remember that doofus who claimed by watching VY that he touched the TV and was instantly cured by that symptom he ailed by? LOL. Some people are just plain gullible. Give him a sugar pill and he wouldn't know the difference. Well, should Schaub continue his prowess they may start calling him a "miracle worker" here.
I have finally begun to understand what Ric feels about all of the VY (aka The Chosen One) bleating because I have come to feel exactly the same way about all of the David Carr was the blame for the Texans being bad talk. This must be due to some quirk of human nature that I just don't understand - to hold just one guy responsible for the failures of others in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. Now Carr wasn't perfect by any means and by now he's a shell of what he should have been but to continue to slam at the guy for the sins of McNair, Capers and Casserly borders on blind obsession. He's now the backup at Carolina and won't be a factor in Sunday's game unless DelHomme goes down to injury and that's all that should be said about David Carr. I wonder just how glib the reaction would be around here if Carr were to come off the bench and beat his former team come Sunday? This game should be a good test for the Texans. I'll be paying specific attention to the line play on both sides of the ball. The OL will face a much better defensive group than last Sunday while the DL won't be facing as bad a group as they did last week. They have a chance to win but I wouldn't be surprised to see a loss here and one next week as well. After all, the road to respectability is going to be a long tough one.
I dont think I've ever heard one person suggest that David Carr, alone, was to blame for the Texans problems. I've heard person after person tell me that he shouldn't be blamed for any of it, because it was really all the OL's fault. That no other QB could do any better than he could. That he'd show us all somewhere else behind a better OL.
Carr caught the most blame because he was the franchise QB and became the poster boy for the failures of this franchise. That, and he sucked. Carolina 27-17 (unless jake gets hurt)
What I don't get is how he's somehow become the personification of everything that went wrong with the Texans even for things that were out of his area of responsibility. I don't see anyone constantly ridiculing the stupid personnel decisions of CBS' GM Casserley nor do I see the same amount of vitriol directed at Capers or McNair for the stupid things that they did as well but the arrows keep flying in Carr's direction while these 3 bozos get away clean. Keeping Carr last year, paying him all of that money only end up cutting him was a mistake but that should be laid at the feet of Kubiak, McNair & Smith because they were the ones who screwed up and not David Carr. I have to agree with you about his defenders being wrong because Carr lacked competitive drive and leadership qualities that would have made him a better QB here. He is what he is (whatever that is) and that is all you can say at this point. I'm not an expert at coaching professional football by any means but I do know that one thing you shouldn't do is to draft a rookie QB, put him behind a rag-tag OL, get him sacked 76 times and then point fingers at him because he winds up adversely effected by that experience. Yesterday, all I heard was the chattering about that interview where the Carolina play-by-play guy said nice things about Carr and how well he fits in and how pleased they were with Carr. The talking heads stroked that like it was a major story or something. Just now, I heard some say that they were on the way to Carolina to see David Carr sit on the bench like that's more important than the game itself. All I'm saying is that I just don't see what all of this continuous digging at David Carr has to do with what's going on now with the team.
1. you don't see people criticizing casserly or capers?? where have you been??!! both lost their jobs before carr lost his!! 2. see..there it is again..."they screwed up, not david carr." yeah..david carr was awesome. none of it was his fault. it was the previous GM's fault that he couldn't hold on to the mother falcon football and liked throwing into quadruple coverage. 3. carr was the face of the franchise. excuse after excuse after excuse was doled out for him that cost us all sorts of opportunities. he very quickly became one of my least favorite houston sports personalities ever. and then he makes dumbass statements. i hope he gets in the game so i can see him fumble and throw interceptions to the texans. i pray he gets in the game. because it means we have a far better chance of winning week 2 than with jake delhomme in.
Ima & MadMax: I'm saying that I don't see the CONTINUOUS slams at Casserly or Capers that I keep seeing about David Carr. Look at what's happening today: a Texans @ Panthers thread degenerates into yet another "David Carr Sucks" thread. He is still catching heat, but what about the others? Where is all of this animosity for Capers & Casserly? Where are they mentioned today at all? Casserly is on CBS every Sunday pontificating like some NFL football genius. It makes me sick to my stomach to see that a-hole on TV but am I the only one? Where is the outrage? The anger? Where was all of his "genius" when he was managing the Texans into the ground? Capers is hiding out over in Miami as the asst head coach. Exactly WTF has he done for you lately? But the mere mention of David Carr and folks here begin to sprew like active volcanos. Look, EVERYBODY F'ed up here, not just Carr but because he was the so-called "face of the franchise", do you actually believe that's reason enough for him and him alone to be eternally held responsible while the other bozos are allowed to fade away into obscurity? That's all I'm asking here - I am not defending Carr because I, too, am glad that he's gone and believe that the team is better off without him but if he deserves to be constantly ripped, then so do all of the rest.
