What sucks for Pete is he's the only part of "the problem" that can be moved on from contractually.
There's a long string of OCs that haven't been able to develop a winning game plan w/Carr. PC is just the latest, which means he's not an elite OC, but it's unknown whether he's a bad OC.
Carr is stuck here.
DA is the guy at the office that keeps getting chances he doesn't deserve because he has "the look".