Derek Carr was a top 10 QB in 2023

J.T. said
My subjective ranking based in part on objective rankings would put Carr in the group under Elite and just under the group of Very Good. People can bicker as to how many QB's are Elite and how many are Very Good. With the current state of the NFL, I think the total of both categories is between 8-12 QB'S max. That puts Carr in the group below 9-13. My own ranking would put Carr between 10-12 or so. Some people can't stand him, but PC had some terrible play calling games early on. Was that because of Carr or because of Pete?

I'm really anxious to see how 2024 plays out. If Carr comes out and plays similar to the latter part of the 2023 season early on, then I'll feel pretty good about our chances.

The whole "hospital balls" thing is an absolute joke. Carr wasn't out there laying out receivers. He was getting crushed by terrible line protection the first half of the season. I would say that Carr took FAR MORE serious hits than Michael Thomas did throughout the season and he kept playing..... If you go by Slant Boy you should be able to take a hit.

This is how I see it. I will dummy this down in a sense. Let’s stay within the division. Baker Mayfield got his team into the playoffs, along with winning the division. So wherever yall have Baker ranked, DC4 should be ranked behind him. Yall can make excuses about crap playcalling by Ole Sneaky Pete, WRs missing assignments, lack of trust with WRs, Oline play, etc…….bc I have stated all of those for our failures this year. However, when it comes to rankings at the end of the season, excuses are just excuses. Every team had problems to a degree. “Had this happened better”, “if we just did this then”, “yada yada”……the point remains that we didn’t do well enough and no one has DC4 in their top 10 rankings bc this past year, he didn’t play his way into the top 10. I HOPE he does bc I am one of his biggest supporters, but yall need to stop and realize that he did not play his way into the top 10 QBs this year conversation and that is perfectly fine bc he CAN do it next year. My God, some of yall act like the world will end by living in the real world.
I challenge anyone to post their top 10 QB rankings for this past year (and be honest) and we can all see exactly where yall have him ranked. And don’t base it on a 6 game sample size. Base it on the entire season. Here’s mine:

Mahomes
Allen
Lamar
Goff
Stafford
Tua
Love
Dak
Purdy
Hurts
Stroud
Baker
All played better this season and all of them got exposed due to their own shortcomings (excluding the last remaining 2 QBs in the Super Bowl).
That’s 12 just right there. This list obviously are missing names due to injury. So I don’t even factor them into this season.