Derek Carr practiced today.
That situation was a little bit more nuanced than just "yelling at Olave during a game."
-Everybody thought Olave quit on the route
-DA's verbiage didn't help
-Olave falls on the sword
-CGM comes out and gives us the play, which takes us back to bullet point 1.
-Everybody thought Olave quit on the route when in reality he was a decoy and his purpose was done as Taysom was open, but even if that wasn't the case, instead of going through progressions, Carr just chunked it and yelled at CO.
And that's where the issue with that situation came from.
I have many, maby issues with Carr, but we are tied to him for the next two years. Given that, I'm hoping he can be fixed. He had a pretty good game on Sunday. The Juwan Johson drop and INT was a very rough way to start a game. I'm not crazy about the way Carr works through his progressions, but earlier in the year the Offensive Line didn't give him any time to work through them.
On this particular play, we all saw Hill break open. Presumably, Carr never saw him. He saw Option One covered, then didn't look at (maybe couldn't see) or throw to Hill. Now, the info we have is Olave was never an option on that play, he was a clear out guy and was not a receiving option, THE WAY THE PLAY WAS DESIGNED. Now, my thinking is, Carr saw option 1 covered, couldn't see, didn't see or didn't look for Hill and then, in his mind was thinking....broken play, ad lib....let me look for Olave, even though he's not a real option the way the play was designed. Now...he sees Olave, sees he pulled up, yeah...Olave did his job the way the play was drawn up, but Carr sees Olave "quit" on the play....
a play that Carr is thinking is now a busted play. Carr figures, the play is now shot anyway and tosses it past Olave as a way to say....keep playing, even on a busted play because that could be a big play. The way the Offensive Line was playing early in the year, most plays were basically busted plays.
Just my opinion, throwing stuff on the wall.