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Love the post but just want to point out that Carr isn’t throwing off his back foot all because of the blocking. I mean it is probably a flinch like reaction because of a 250 plus lineman coming at him but ultimately he could probably move and sling it with his feet planted. We have seen the best to ever do it in a Saints uniform and maybe of all time.

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In reality his backfoot stuff is cumulative. He's played a lot of football and has developed tendencies in how he reacts to pressure. It's all on his tape from his entire career. In a perfect world he'd be able to have a short memory and go back to fundamentals. In reality, he reacts poorly to pressure up the middle. So when you sign a guy like that the coaches have to build things to highlight his best parts and hide his bad parts. They have not done so.

The Saints have not done anything like that for Carr like they did for Drew. Drew had one of the best interior lines to ever play. They gave Drew a clean pocket to step into when outside pressure came and they gave him throwing lanes that covered for his shorter stature. If he had to play behind this line, he wouldn't be very good either. We even saw that his last couple of years.