David Carr is vastly superior at underachieving, though
May 25, 2007 David Carr has Post-Concussion Syndrome, Offensive (punch)Line, The Schaub Experiment
In the less-than-one-month existence of DGDB&D, a constant theme has been the skewed perception of the quality of Houston’s offense line play. To recap, these posts usually involve me claiming that the line was nowhere near as bad as people mad it sound last year and that a goodly number of the sacks of David Carr were due to the ineptness and utter lack of pocket presence of David Carr. By that rationale, of course, replacing the inherently-flawed Carr with a QB possessing better presence, better football intelligence, and less estrogen would greatly improve the team.
So, following the trade for Matt Schaub (and the courtesy-flushing of Carr), the question from anyone1 who bought into the above assertions was usually, “yeah… but what makes you thinks Schaub is actually better than David Carr?” Fair enough–considering Schaub’s career numbers, such a question was valid, at least on its face.2
Thankfully, Stephanie over at Fanhouse brings us news of this video from the NFL Network. [Author's Note: The picture of Carr on that post is great.] In said film, Brian Baldinger (with help from his weird, weird pinkie) breaks down all the ways in which Schaub is superior to Carr. Basically, at least according to the video, Schaub reads defenses better, has a better pocket presence, possesses the ability to run if need be, is not footballtarded, and rescues burning puppies in his spare time.3 I have a hard time believing that someone could watch that video and conclude that the Matt Schaub era is not looking more and more promising.
It’s not all bad for Carr. I mean, Schaub may have won the starting job, but David still has his awards to fall back on.
(Honestly, I can’t imagine tiring of that picture.)
1 Read: Non-Texans fans.
2 Unless you had watched Carr over the past few seasons, in which case you probably wondered how anyone could think Schaub wouldn’t be better.
3 Baldinger doesn’t come out and say this last one, but I have my suspicions.
