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When the going gets tough: Put in Sage, Pull Carr

Wolf said:
did you watch any games.. I have seen him get hit in that formation. on a 4 man rush mind you
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I'm not saying he didn't.......... just saying you can't blame anyone other than the QB for taking a sack from the shotgun.
 
CajunTexan said:
The one name that is missing that, IMO, renders this stat useless, is the guy whose team has won 1/3 of the Super bowls since 1996. Tom Brady.

I would also be willing to bet, that if they projected this stat back over the Super Bowl era, there would be some other names that might not be in the "significatley good" catagory either. Bradshaw, Montana and Aikman.

These guys were on teams, during their championship runs, that rarely put them in a postition to need to comeback, little on score in the fourth quarter.

No Brady is in the top ten for the hard stats of 4th Quarter comebacks. 13-8 with a good share of them in the post season. He just didn't have enough situations to overcome to place up there with Kent Graham!

So Wolf...if I had to guess with out the numbers in front of me... I would think the Patriots and the Steelers had the most 4th Quarter games, since Bledsoe lost a whopping 61 of them since 1996.
 
thunderkyss said:
you can't blame anyone other than the QB for taking a sack from the shotgun.

That's absurd. The shotgun generally screams to the D, hey this is a passing play pin your ears back. In the meantime it does nothing to get the WR's into their routes and open faster. It also, in contrast to a designed roll out, does not put the QB out of the pocket such that the ball can be thrown away without an intentional grounding penalty. 11 of Peyton's 17 sacks last year came from the shotgun, 9 of 13 sacks the year before. Every QB in the league takes sacks from the shotgun and they aren't all just too stupid to figure out that it should never happen.
 
infantrycak said:
That's absurd. The shotgun generally screams to the D, hey this is a passing play pin your ears back. In the meantime it does nothing to get the WR's into their routes and open faster. It also, in contrast to a designed roll out, does not put the QB out of the pocket such that the ball can be thrown away without an intentional grounding penalty. 11 of Peyton's 17 sacks last year came from the shotgun, 9 of 13 sacks the year before. Every QB in the league takes sacks from the shotgun and they aren't all just too stupid to figure out that it should never happen.
The shotgun can also put the RB out of position to pick up the blitz. Lots of gunfire here. I hope it's all because they are happy over the world cup. Heard less in Iraq in '04
 
thunderkyss said:
I'm not saying he didn't.......... just saying you can't blame anyone other than the QB for taking a sack from the shotgun.

yeah Mr.Thunderkyss, that's a losing battle. I would just take a knee and punt on that one. The Shotgun has had critics that date back to the day it started with Red Hickey. Some guys can do it and a lot can't.
 
TwinSisters said:
yeah Mr.Thunderkyss, that's a losing battle. I would just take a knee and punt on that one. The Shotgun has had critics that date back to the day it started with Red Hickey. Some guys can do it and a lot can't.
Have you checked the immigration staus of said monkeys, and shouldn't there have been some progression in the shotgun offense since its inception? Also,
what are your thoughts on a hit and run type offense for the Texans and can Eric Moulds be the base stealer Phil "I'm a Kubiak Fan" Garner thinks he should be? Should Zidane be considered as a free agent aquisition/team captain for the Texans in light of Frances unlikely advance to the finals in the World Cup? Dos the World Cup even matter? Is the 7 hour time difference in allowable drinking hours showing? Try being in France when they lose the World Cup.
 
DocBar said:
Have you checked the immigration staus of said monkeys, and shouldn't there have been some progression in the shotgun offense since its inception?

There has.. it's called the spread and the run'n'shoot. And all three suffer from the same criticism: that it gives up too many sacks.

Yet with the right guys it always seems to work well... Starbach, Moon, Elway, Favre, etc.

http://www.packersnews.com/welcome/to/pack_1326618.shtml

even did it with "hands of stone" Corey Bradford.
 
TwinSisters said:
There has.. it's called the spread and the run'n'shoot. And all three suffer from the same criticism: that it gives up too many sacks.

Yet with the right guys it always seems to work well... Starbach, Moon, Elway, Favre, etc.

http://www.packersnews.com/welcome/to/pack_1326618.shtml

even did it with "hands of stone" Corey Bradford.
But what about the monkey's? And only Moon ran an authentic version of the "chuck and duck". Well, maybe that Houston guy who defected to Buffalo did. What is his name? If he's not a Hall of Famer, he should be. Great passer.
Oh yeah...Jim Kelly. Everyone else did it halfway at best.
 
TwinSisters said:
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2006/06/26/ramblings/stat-analysis/3978/

Nothing really all that telling here, but an interesting article nonetheless.



Billy Joe Tolliver is ranked with Carr... I think I am going to start the Lord's Prayer right now.
Matt Haselback sucks to I guess.

PLEASE PEOPLE take in the fact what the guy has had to work with, will you do me that next time you try to act like this guy has had it just as good as some other QBs in the NFL.

I have an idea lets just put up all Joe Montanas records and compare them to Carrs.
 
thunderkyss said:
I'm not saying he didn't.......... just saying you can't blame anyone other than the QB for taking a sack from the shotgun.
You cant?...............Give me a break, it is almost too funny with some of the stuff I read here.

Let me put it this way, I just started up playing football again, playing DE. The team we played yesterday had a guy in the Shotgun!!!!!! I jumped the snap, the LT barely got out of his stance, Got my sack IN A SHOTGUN fromation, and that is the QBs fault for only having 2 seconds to throw the ball? AND WE were pressing as well, he had no chance, it was NOT his fault.
 
[[Gary Kubiak]] said:
I agree, the best player to get us wins should start at QB. For now it's Carr.

I disagree. I would rather start Sage and take my chances. Carr is terrible. The sooner this franchise realizes this, the better off we will all be.
 
swtbound07 said:
I disagree. I would rather start Sage and take my chances. Carr is terrible. The sooner this franchise realizes this, the better off we will all be.


We won't know if Carr is terrible until after this season, now that he has weapons around him and (hopefully) a better offensive line. I am not a big Carr fan, but at the same time I would love to see the Carr haters stand in his shoes for a few games and get their heads taken off repeatedly. Let me put it this way: Carr, Sage, hell even Brady or Manning, take your pick and put them behind the same line and with the same weapons (or lack thereof) that David's had for four years and you get basically the same result - losses.
 
bigtex77 said:
We won't know if Carr is terrible until after this season, now that he has weapons around him and (hopefully) a better offensive line. I am not a big Carr fan, but at the same time I would love to see the Carr haters stand in his shoes for a few games and get their heads taken off repeatedly. Let me put it this way: Carr, Sage, hell even Brady or Manning, take your pick and put them behind the same line and with the same weapons (or lack thereof) that David's had for four years and you get basically the same result - losses.

Cry me a river with the hard life Carr has led as an NFL quarterback. I already know he is terrible...I had 4 years of watching him to know that. You might want to give him more time, I don't. Every quarterback in the nfl doesn't get gift wrapped a great set of circumstances. Let me put it this way. At his salary, with his performance, he is the most overpaid player in the NFL.
 
swtbound07 said:
. Every quarterback in the nfl doesn't get gift wrapped a great set of circumstances. .


what would you all 200+ sacks over the years (yes we can debate all day long about if it is his fault or the OL fault).


you tell me another QB could perform with the pass blocking that our team has had?

and yes based on stats, one could say he is getting paid more than what he should
 
Wolf said:
what would you all 200+ sacks over the years (yes we can debate all day long about if it is his fault or the OL fault).


you tell me another QB could perform with the pass blocking that our team has had?

and yes based on stats, one could say he is getting paid more than what he should


I dont care WHY he didnt win....I care that he didn't. He got sacked a lot. So what. You dont KNOW that he can perform with weapons. Im saying 5 years in the NFL is too long to hang the "potential" tag on somebody. Yes, I would rather start Sage. At least I dont KNOW he can't win. And the point is not whether peyton or vick or anyone else COULD have performed here either. We'll never know. You dont know how those qb's would have done, its a pointless hypothetical. What you do know, is what Carr did....or more accurately DIDNT do.
 
swtbound07 said:
I had 4 years of watching him to know that.


You are right, you've had 4 years of watching him behind no offensive line and with no weapons, if he doesn't drastically improve this season then I will feel the exact same way that you do.
 
bigtex77 said:
You are right, you've had 4 years of watching him behind no offensive line and with no weapons, if he doesn't drastically improve this season then I will feel the exact same way that you do.

What has he done to EARN the right to start for a 5th year for the Texans.
 
You also don't "know" that David can't win, not for a fact, because of the lack of support. You can have your opinion, but theres no way to know.
 
bigtex77 said:
You also don't "know" that David can't win, not for a fact, because of the lack of support. You can have your opinion, but theres no way to know.

Yes I do....he has had ample opportunity.....4 seasons worth, and that IS a fact. Fine....dont say he "can't" win, since future prediction is impossible.....lets just say he DOESNT win. That I can prove.
 
swtbound07 said:
What has he done to EARN the right to start for a 5th year for the Texans.

How about standing in there and taking the freaking beating he's taken for four years? I think he's more than earned a chance to prove he can be successful this season.
 
Hulk75 said:
Matt Haselback sucks to I guess.
I have an idea lets just put up all Joe Montanas records and compare them to Carrs.

All right... all things being equal. It's the 4th Quarter and you are down by one score. You make the call.

Do you A: Insert Joe Montana?

or

B: Leave David Carr in command and sit peacefully sipping your cold beer knowing that the game is surely won.

---

Doc on Jim Kelly.. the thing about him is that I remember him mostly for his no huddle command and Thurman Thomas made his run-n-shoot work. ( the Gamblers period would be different, but to tell you the truth I cannot remember a single USFL game!!! )
 
bigtex77 said:
How about standing in there and taking the freaking beating he's taken for four years? I think he's more than earned a chance to prove he can be successful this season.

Being a tackling dummy doesn't earn you anything in my book. I don't want to waste a "sympathy season" on Carr because he got hit a lot. He hasn't done anything, hasn't had a winning season, hasn't shown much during the season to make me think his performance was anybody's fault but his, and hasn't earned anything. He gets gift wrapped a large contract extension, and everybody around here is pretending we are okay with him as our qb when we have been repeatedly shown we are not. Start Sage.
 
swtbound07 said:
What has he done to EARN the right to start for a 5th year for the Texans.


you don't know if he has EARNED the right to start year 5, Kubiak is deciding that when TC starts. and yes more than likely David will start but I do recall Kubiak saying no one is getting a free pass (see TJ).

To me in the Capers era, they should have benched Carr when he struggled, just to get Banks in to give Carr some game film to study from Banks (whether good or bad) who was an experienced NFL QB.

At this point I trust Kubiak isn't going to make the same mistake. we wouldn't have had this discussion after the 2004 season,because It is almost safe to say everyone was pleased with the progression Carr was making
 
Wolf said:
you don't know if he has EARNED the right to start year 5, Kubiak is deciding that when TC starts. and yes more than likely David will start but I do recall Kubiak saying no one is getting a free pass (see TJ).

To me in the Capers era, they should have benched Carr when he struggled, just to get Banks in to give Carr some game film to study from Banks (whether good or bad) who was an experienced NFL QB.

At this point I trust Kubiak isn't going to make the same mistake. we wouldn't have had this discussion after the 2004 season,because It is almost safe to say everyone was pleased with the progression Carr was making

Its not safe to say that....I dont know if you feel like archive digging, but I've been down on Carr for quite some time. Carr is being given a free pass by everyone on this board and i can't for the life of me understand why
 
swtbound07 said:
Yes I do....he has had ample opportunity.....4 seasons worth, and that IS a fact. Fine....dont say he "can't" win, since future prediction is impossible.....lets just say he DOESNT win. That I can prove.


That's my point, an "ample" opportunity to what? Get killed? OK David,
1) Here's the worst o-line in the league
2) AJ (oh never mind the fact that he's double covered, you'll never have time to get the ball off anyway)
3) Corey (Hands of Steel) Bradford

Good luck.

Thats like sendiing Lance Armstrong to the Tour de France with a tri-cycle and then saying he sucks because he doesn't win.
 
bigtex77 said:
That's my point, an "ample" opportunity to what? Get killed? OK David,
1) Here's the worst o-line in the league
2) AJ (oh never mind the fact that he's double covered, you'll never have time to get the ball off anyway)
3) Corey (Hands of Steel) Bradford

Good luck.

Thats like sendiing Lance Armstrong to the Tour de France with a tri-cycle and then saying he sucks because he doesn't win.

Excuses. Im tired of excuses for david carr.
 
my honest opinion on Carr, if Kubiak can't turn him around, and with the talent we have added, then noone can

Carr can make all the throws (see videos that are posted on website), yet Kubiak has to get into his head and get him to make the right reads and make them fast..

I can give the offense and defense some leadway early in the season due to all new schemes, but if Carr regresses with kubiak leading the way, I'll agree with you 100 percent

It would stink ,but I'd be petitioning for Quinn
 
Hulk75 said:
You cant?...............Give me a break, it is almost too funny with some of the stuff I read here.

Let me put it this way, I just started up playing football again, playing DE. The team we played yesterday had a guy in the Shotgun!!!!!! I jumped the snap, the LT barely got out of his stance, Got my sack IN A SHOTGUN fromation, and that is the QBs fault for only having 2 seconds to throw the ball? AND WE were pressing as well, he had no chance, it was NOT his fault.

Theoretically the shotgun is supposed to give the QB an extra split second to read the D..........that "extra" time goes right out the window when the OL is facing the D secondary instead of the DL..:brickwall
 
swtbound07 said:
Excuses. Im tired of excuses for david carr.

You can't honestly tell me that David has been given a truly fair chance to win with this organization, before this season. If so, you are kidding yourself.
 
bigtex77 said:
You can't honestly tell me that David has been given a truly fair chance to win with this organization, before this season. If so, you are kidding yourself.

The NFL isn't fair. I dont believe he deserves a "fair" chance. I want a qb that wins, and could care less about carr or his feelings or hardship. He controlled his destiny, he took the snaps, he dictated the results. He didn't win. No sympathy over here.
 
swtbound07 said:
The NFL isn't fair. I dont believe he deserves a "fair" chance. I want a qb that wins, and could care less about carr or his feelings or hardship. He controlled his destiny, he took the snaps, he dictated the results. He didn't win. No sympathy over here.
My sides hurt again.lol:
 
The Pencil Neck said:
He convinced Kubiak (and several other coaches) that he should be his starter.

That's all it takes.

Yippy. Kubiak gets a paycheck and we get another sub .500 season. You satisfied with that? Im not.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Theoretically the shotgun is supposed to give the QB an extra split second to read the D..........that "extra" time goes right out the window when the OL is facing the D secondary instead of the DL..:brickwall
Can you explain that?

Are you saying a sack that happens in 2 seconds when the QB is in Shotgun is the QBs fault?
 
"It is almost safe to say everyone was pleased with the progression Carr was making"


Why is it that so few people remember that the 2nd half of 2004 was not good for Carr or the Texans, ending with that horrendous game against the Browns? Carr had more INT's than TD's the 2nd half and we only beat 1 team with a winning record all year (Jags twice)--other 5 victories were against losing teams including the Titans (twice), which means we only beat 3 other teams besides the Jags and Titans.
 
NATHANHALE said:
"It is almost safe to say everyone was pleased with the progression Carr was making"


Why is it that so few people remember that the 2nd half of 2004 was not good for Carr or the Texans, ending with that horrendous game against the Browns? Carr had more INT's than TD's the 2nd half and we only beat 1 team with a winning record all year (Jags twice)--other 5 victories were against losing teams including the Titans (twice), which means we only beat 3 other teams besides the Jags and Titans.


I am saying as a season as a whole, he improved in areas but yes after the dreaded possible "playoff" talk in the middle of the season ..we flopped
 
swtbound07 said:
That refers to my work in the no-spin zone......I legitimately think Carr is garbage.

I was just kidding. I do understand why you feel that way towards Carr, the only difference between us is that this season will be the deciding factor for me. If he still sucks, I hope you have room on the "Carr sucks" bandwagon.
 
swtbound07 said:
That refers to my work in the no-spin zone......I legitimately think Carr is garbage.
Yes for the 2,000,000,000 time we understand, maybe you should write a letter and tell how much you HATE.......oooppps I mean tell them how much you dis-like him. :cool:
 
Hulk75 said:
Yes for the 2,000,000,000 time we understand, maybe you should write a letter and tell how much you HATE.......oooppps I mean tell them how much you dis-like him. :cool:

I plan on being a bastion for my position over the offseason Hulk....for every pro-carr post, for every "lets give our buddy carr another chance" post, I'll be there as a counter-view. Its my dedication. You can say hate...I don't mind. I imagine I will sound like a broken record over the next few months...but remember what I said about the draft...it applies here too. Once kickoff starts, I cheer for ALL the Texans. But in the offseason....Carr=overrated.
 
swtbound07 said:
I plan on being a bastion for my position over the offseason Hulk....for every pro-carr post, for every "lets give our buddy carr another chance" post, I'll be there as a counter-view. Its my dedication. You can say hate...I don't mind. I imagine I will sound like a broken record over the next few months...but remember what I said about the draft...it applies here too. Once kickoff starts, I cheer for ALL the Texans. But in the offseason....Carr=overrated.
Okay great I really dont care, I just dont know were all the hate comes from, has nothing to do with football, come on now, hate suck garbage idiot...........come on man you can show a little respect to the guy...........I mean what if the guy goes off and and becomes a pro bowler and a Super Bowl Champion, then were does that leave all your comments? I mean there are NFL coaches over at Reliant that think he will be.

Give respect to get respect..............
 
swtbound07 said:
I plan on being a bastion for my position over the offseason Hulk....for every pro-carr post, for every "lets give our buddy carr another chance" post, I'll be there as a counter-view. Its my dedication. You can say hate...I don't mind. I imagine I will sound like a broken record over the next few months...but remember what I said about the draft...it applies here too. Once kickoff starts, I cheer for ALL the Texans. But in the offseason....Carr=overrated.


but why would you hate on Carr, if you had the chance to make millions and take care of your family, you'd do it too :D
:stirpot:


BTW SWT I am kidding with ya , I was reading the post in the no football talk
 
IMO, there are 2 primary areas in the passing game that Carr has not mastered-- (1) reading the defense and (2) getting rid of the ball. For whatever reason, Carr came to the pro level without several asapects of the pro game he should have already been doing automatically, like not locking onto his receiver and not running out of bounds with the ball. I still do not understand why the team waste so much of the play clock in the huddle, instead of getting to the line of scrimage to read the defense. How much is the slow reaction to read, react, and throw Carr's fault?

OK, so we improve the pass blocking plus move Carr around to help avoid the rush-we get the TE's involved in the passing game as well as the FB, and we add a #2 WR plus new faces at #3 and #4. Now, instead of a couple reads for Carr, we add several more. Does this mean he will now be able to do what he has never done before? Read. Find. React. Throw...
 
NATHANHALE said:
IMO, there are 2 primary areas in the passing game that Carr has not mastered-- (1) reading the defense and (2) getting rid of the ball. For whatever reason, Carr came to the pro level without several asapects of the pro game he should have already been doing automatically, like not locking onto his receiver and not running out of bounds with the ball. I still do not understand why the team waste so much of the play clock in the huddle, instead of getting to the line of scrimage to read the defense. How much is the slow reaction to read, react, and throw Carr's fault?

OK, so we improve the pass blocking plus move Carr around to help avoid the rush-we get the TE's involved in the passing game as well as the FB, and we add a #2 WR plus new faces at #3 and #4. Now, instead of a couple reads for Carr, we add several more. Does this mean he will now be able to do what he has never done before? Read. Find. React. Throw...
There is a lot Peyton and Brady (maybe not Brady):) have not MASTERED.

And really we dont know that, you cant tell spit what he cant do yet with the sorry Offense he has ran in the past. And it was and still is sorry.
 
swtbound07 said:
Yippy. Kubiak gets a paycheck and we get another sub .500 season. You satisfied with that? Im not.

You really think that Kubiak is getting paid for sub 500 seasons? I don't.

Personally, given the talent on this team, the best I expect this year is 8-8 and I don't care WHO's the QB. I'll be happy with over 5 wins this year. I expect a winning season next year.

The bottom line is that it hasn't been David Carr that's been losing all these games. Games aren't won or lost by the QB. They're won and lost by the team. Until we have a team that plays as a team, we're not going to be winners.
 
Hulk75 said:
Can you explain that?

Are you saying a sack that happens in 2 seconds when the QB is in Shotgun is the QBs fault?

Exactly the opposite..........I'm agreeing with you. If the OL isn't holding the the DL, it means the DL is already in the back field, leaving the OL looking unobstructed at the D secondary. In other words the OL's been beaten and hasn't given the extra time to the QB.............thus leading to the sack of the poor schmuck with the ball in his hands.:hides:
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Exactly the opposite..........I'm agreeing with you. If the OL isn't holding the the DL, it means the DL is already in the back field, leaving the OL looking unobstructed at the D secondary. In other words the OL's been beaten and hasn't given the extra time to the QB.............thus leading to the sack of the poor schmuck with the ball in his hands.:hides:
Okay I just did not understand the way you put it before.:ok:
 
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