With the opening of the Texans’ pre-season training camp, the players are being asked about what it’s like not to have David Carr quarterbacking the Texans for the first time in the team’s history. Carr is already on record as saying that he’s glad to be away from the Texans’ sieve-like offensive line, which prompted some mild barbs back at Carr from his former main target.
But as this Stephanie Stradley post reports, more of Carr’s former teammates are “diplomatically” letting it be known publicly that they are not sorry that Carr is gone. Even Bob McNair goes on record as saying that the team had bent over backward to accomodate his slow development as an NFL QB, but finally just had to move on.
My, how times change.
Houston's Clear Thinkers
Longtime Houston attorney Tom Kirkendall's observations on developments in law, business, medicine, culture, sports, and other matters of general interest to the Houston business, professional, and academic communities.
A lot of people pile on the Texans’ O-Line (and with reason, for the most part), but I don’t remember Sage Rosenfels or even Tony Banks playing like it was thier first game of football ever when they got in.
If the O-Line was so bad last year, why did Sage almost bring the team back against TEN when Carr kept getting sacked behind the same line earlier in that game? Maybe it’s because of Carr. At some point, the national media will figure out that Carr was as big a part of the problem, probably right around the time he starts costing the Panthers some games and Shaub is quietly efficient for Houston.