Derek Carr was a top 10 QB in 2023
LOL yeah let's make an assesment based on the games where the OL play was absolutely ABYSMAL and got DC knocked out of the game TWICE and was hurt. Let's also take into consideration the poor receiver play and the many drops.Also lets not consider the last 6 games where he had the highest QBR in the league. It's a league of what have you done lately and the lately DC was pretty darn good when he was healthy and the ol was not so putrid. And before you say look at who we played The Chiefs with the best QB in the game were 17th in strength of sched. but no one is saying look who they played. Or you can bring out Rouxble's DVOA fancy slide rule metric that sounds like what they do when they want to show the economy is on the upswing when everyone is jobless and broke. Sorry last part of the season DC was one of the top QBs in the leagueRespectfully, we are only having this conversation because of the last 4 games of the season, as @los226 pointed out.
It's easy to create this narrative when using raw stats but for metrics that takes things on a game by game basis, it doesn't work like that. Most metrics have him 14 and lower. I believe that the last 2 games gave us something to build on but to say that he played his way into a top 10 spot ignores over 75% of the entire season. Up until Week 15, the only thing that he could rest his hat on was completion percentage, which means nothing in the grand scheme of offensive production
