Online, there used to be a game called “David Carr Quarterback Simulator”. You snap the ball and a lineman sacks you in 1-1/2 seconds. Then you snap it and a blitzing linebacker sacks you. Then you snap it and a corner sacks you, etc.
He basically got the snot beat out of him in Houston and he lost confidence in his abilities and his teammates. He was worse after four seasons than he was when he first arrived.
Despite backup roles in Carolina and with the Giants, Carr has never gotten “it” back and probably never will. Sad. He seemed like such a good man. But the NFL is brutal that way.
He talks a good game and he still has the raw skills but he doesn’t read defenses well and wilts under pressure. He’s the sort of player that makes a GM look bad for expecting a change of scenery to help him.
My son runs track and plays football. We do a drill where I hike the ball behind a tree. He has the option to either blitz me or try to break up the pass. I have become adept at throwing the ball away because I am too old to run away from him.
At 14, he weighs what I weighed at 25 and is two inches shorter than me.
This is what usually happens to detroit quarterbacks. Detroit drafted some decent quarterbacks and subsequently destroyed them, turning them into gunshy wimps....I used say that when the ball is snapped, you count.....one, onethousand, two onethousand..all the way up to four onethousand...after that the q’back is on his own...detroit got to one onethousand and he was out of the pocket or hit..without an offensive line, it does not matter who is in the backfield ( unless you are barry sanders )