Wolf
100% Texan
LOOKING back on it now, I probably owe Steve McKinney, Zach Wiegert and some of the other fellows an apology.
"The safest answer I can give is that perception isn't always reality," Chester Pitts said, taking the words right out of my mouth if, in fact, I happened to be the apologizing type. Which of course I am.
Turns out they might not have been the worthless dogs some of us thought them to be. In fact, the kids might have been all right. Who knew?
"The guys in our locker room knew," Pitts said, "and that's all that counts."
Once upon a time, McKinney and Wiegert were part of an offensive line that was blamed for just about all of David Carr's problems.
Some of us dummies thought if Carr just had more time to throw, if he just had a chance, then maybe, just maybe, he'd be the franchise quarterback he was supposed to be.
He took a brutal beating in five seasons with the Texans , and in those early years, there's little question he didn't have enough protection.
There was a point, though, when the Texans upgraded the talent, and Carr kept getting sacked. Once he departed, the number of sacks dropped dramatically - from 111 in Carr's final two seasons to 55 in two seasons with Matt Schaub and Sage Rosenfels at quarterback.
Talent, injuries and scheme surely were issues at various times. Carr wrote his own check plenty of times.
Thinking has changed
He didn't have that intan-gible thing called "pocket presence," didn't have the ability to sense where the rush was coming from and when to unload the ball.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/...-USTICE:-Line-blamed-for-Carr's-mistakes-