Derek Carr Should Be Unemployed

The Los Angeles Rams beat the New Orleans Saints 22-30 on Thursday night and on paper, Derek Carr was instrumental in keeping New Orleans in the game. He had 319 passing yards and 3 touchdowns. But I promise you, Derek Carr lost this game.

With 1:41 left in the first half and the team down 7-10, you’d expect your quarterback who’s making $30 million to take your team from their own 35-yard line to scoring position. That’s plenty of time for great quarterbacks to at least get his squad in field goal range. Especially against the Rams and their 19th-ranked defense.

The New Orleans Saints did not score.

Carr completed 2 passes for a total of 23 yards and the drive ended after Carr threw an absolute piece of shit to no one on 4th and 5.

#Saints have no answers on 4th down…pic.twitter.com/v36DPbziOj https://t.co/ZzDt2RpSB3

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) December 22, 2023

The Los Angeles Rams got the ball with 56 seconds left. They scored a touchdown going into halftime. Again, The New Orleans Saints did not.

His first drive back from halftime ended with Derek Carr, under pressure, blindly throwing another disgusting piece of shit into double coverage. It landed right in Jordan Fuller’s hands. Jordan Fuller plays for the Rams.

The Rams scored another touchdown.

Derek Carr redeemed himself with yet another failed 4th down attempt throwing the ball to Juwan Johnson about 5 yards behind the first down marker.

But none of it matters because the Saints play in the worst division and could still make the playoffs without winning another game because the Panthers don’t have any NFL players on their roster, the Falcons offense is designed to keep the ball away from their talented skill players because their coach’s are offensive geniuses and Falcons fans can’t comprehend the art being painted in front of them every week—and the Buccaneers are constantly holding their breath hoping Baker Mayfield doesn’t revert to his captain of the high school football team bullshit where he thinks he can singlehandedly win football games despite years of evidence proving otherwise.

And that’s why Derek Carr continues to exist. His mediocrity is always either rewarded or excused.

Before Thursday night and all of his late-game stat-padding, Carr had one more touchdown pass than Joe Burrow—who hasn’t played since November 16th. He had fewer touchdowns than Kirk Cousins—who hasn’t played since Halloween.

It’s time for the Derek Carr era to end

Typically, I’d pat someone like Carr on the back for finessing his way into being an automatic starting quarterback every year making millions while simultaneously being a cheap Burlington Coat Factory knockoff of what an actual NFL QB is.

But on Monday night, after not getting an opportunity to play for the last 3 years, Drew Lock led the Seattle Seahawks to a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles and gave a pretty emotional interview afterward.

Drew Lock with an emotional postgame interview following a huge MNF win ❤️

(via @NFL)
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— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 19, 2023

There are so many guys who are thrown into terrible organizations right out of college with ridiculous expectations put on them and treated like failures for not being able to turn around poorly run, bottom-feeding, talentless franchises while Derek Carr has been an NFL starter for TEN FUCKING YEARS and made the playoffs once.

Last year.

With 1:51 left in the game, down by a touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals with a chance to tie the game and prove why he’s worthy of being a perennial starting quarterback, he threw an interception and the Raiders lost.

How are the Saints not walking through this horrific NFC South division with a 10-year veteran leading?

He’s been to the Pro Bowl 3 times in his career but somehow couldn’t score more points than Desmond fucking Ridder.

Am I missing something? We may never get to see Trey Lance ever play football but every Sunday, for some fucking reason, Derek Carr, covered in mascara, is out there stealing job opportunities.

It seems like his backup, Jameis Winston, is more beloved by the other 51 players on this roster. New Orleans loves Winston and he has to sit on the bench watching Carr overthrow wide-open receivers because he’s afraid of getting hit so he just closes his eyes and blindly chucks it out of bounds to avoid any and all physical contact.

Derek Carr plays football like he works at his dad’s hardware store and he keeps trying to prove he’s ready to take control of the business and let his old man finally retire—he makes a drastic mistake that removes all of his dad’s trust but he’s his only son so he gets another opportunity to come back to Carr’s Hardware and prove himself once again.

A guy like Tommy DeVito will never get another real shot to consistently play in the NFL again while Derek Carr’s head internally bleeds from rubbing against the ceiling of his talent for over a decade.

This is all David Carr’s fault.