Looks like Chris Leak's dream of being a Carolina Panther won't be much more than that for the time being. Former Houston Texans quarterback David Carr signed with the Carolina Panthers early this morning, making the former #1 overall pick the #2 man behind Jake Delhomme.Carr made this decision the day after coming back from a trip to Seattle. What exactly does this say about Carr's opinion of that city? Does he just not like that much rain? Does he prefer to wash the multiple coatings of pollen off his vehicles himself? (North Carolina is drowning in pollen right now. My car gets covered every morning with the reproductive seed of horny trees and flowers. They're all perverts, I tell you. If I had done that to somebody's car, I'd be arrested, and rightly so...)
But I digress. Carr could have taken a starting job elsewhere, but he chose the Panthers because he felt it was the best place for him to resurrect his career. He did show some improvement over the last year or two, but he was poorly coached by Dom Capers' staff in Houston and had to be re-trained by Gary Kubiak on how to go through reads. Hopefully, he learned something about that in Houston, because he'll have to learn a whole new offense in Carolina this year. Granted, so does everyone else. That will lead people to speculate that Delhomme may lose his starting job if he struggles in 2007. I have my doubts about that, but I don't doubt Delhomme's leash got just a little bit shorter today.
Carr's signing means that the Panthers now have both the top two picks from the 2002 NFL Draft -- the second pick, of course, being Julius Peppers, whose career has been considerably better than Carr's thus far. Of course, Peppers never had to play behind the offensive lines Carr had in Houston, though in Carolina's last game against the Texans in 2003 -- which Houston won, 14-10 -- Pep had zero sacks. Mike Rucker, on the other hand, had two.
Previously at the FanHouse:
Matt Schaub Already Succeeding Where David Carr Failed
Chris Leak REALLY Wants to Be a Carolina Panther
Panthers Talking to Two Tedford QBs Not Named Akili
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4-07-2007 @ 10:20AM
James said...
You might want to check out the Houston Chronicle Sports Section from yesterday in which Andre Johnson said the coaches just told David where to throw the ball because he could not read defenses.
Good luck with your former number 1 pick, as many of us here in Houston already know, he could not be a starter on any team in the NFL
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4-07-2007 @ 2:17PM
Popo said...
I think Carr is a good fit 4 the Carolina Panthers, I mean who's Delhomme's backuP? They released Chris Weinke and their other option is Brett Basanez a guy who was on the practice squad.
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4-07-2007 @ 7:19PM
Lee Roberts said...
Come on Folks... Lay off 'ole David! He is a good man, an honest man, and a good Believer in JC as Savior. I like him as a person and a FootBall player, and so should you! And he is a heck of a lot better as a QB and FB player than people give him credit for... anyone with "1/2 a FB brain" should be able to see that.
Come on folks, get real! Carolan just got a STEAL of a DEAL and I give David about two years and he will be Pro-Bowl material, starting in the NFL again, and if given an OF line this time who will protect him some and give him time to complete a pass, he will even lead a team to the Super Bowl. That is right! I said, you ought to believe it, and it will happen. Listen folks, I know my Football and it will happen.
David's biggest problem ih Houston (other than poor coaching, stupid & cheap ownership, and idiotic managerialship) was the fact that he had NO LINE to protect him. The idiots in Houston just don't know enugh about FB to know that. Poor old G. Kubiak... give him another year or 2 and Houston will fire him, too, due to his lack of FB knowledge anyw ay. I mean come on, the guy could not even start in the Pros hmself! And he tries to coach an NFL team now? Come on now, what gives there?
YES, I will say it again -- David C is a good person and football player. He just needs someone to believe in him again, and give him a decent OF line to protect him a little.
As a matter of fact, Half the OF linemen he DIDN'T have in Houstn ought to all be rouned up, arrested, and imprisoned for "assualt and battery" on poor 'ole David... for letting him get beat up and hit and sacked so many dang times! Right? You know it is right!
The other Half should be arrested for 'impersonating an OF lineman!" It's true, huh? Those dogs were guilty of stealing OF linemen's Identities and that is against the law!
Well, what do you think? Adios, SCUBA Man
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