I guess we don't agree on the progress David Carr made from year one to year three. That's fine. Differences of opinion is what fuels discussion. But I remember being very happy with David Carr year one, year two, & at least half of year three. Would a vet presence been helpful? I don't see how. As far as I can tell, he was doing the things he needed to do to get better, to learn the game.
After year three, I feel like he stopped giving a sht & stopped doing the things that were going to make him better. Maybe he decided to tell people that it was because he valued being a family man more than being an NFL QB & that may have been the case from that point forward. But I'm pretty sure he's not going to say, "The place was a clusterfk. From top to bottom, that organization had no idea how to win. There's only so much one man can do & I decided it wasn't worth my time." Whether it was true or not... he's not going to say it.
But that's what most of us thought about this organization at that time. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the team felt that way.