Anyone else question why did Carr leap?

AARPSaint said

He could have just gone down. Reaction: Carr is soft; bench him (of course, with no thought about the alternative)

Or, he could have tried to get the first down and failed. Reaction: What a stupid, risky decision. Bench him (of course, now we find out about the alternative).

The Carr haters got their wish. And many of them will be clamoring to draft one of the variety of the mediocre QBs available in the upcoming draft.

Build the supporting cast. The next good QB is not appearing soon. The best scenario is to stick with Carr until a good QB draft or the sudden emergence of one of the youngsters.

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We probably have Carr for one more season, at least, as I don't see Carson Beck or Quinn Ewers as having great, NFL-READY transition intangibles to quickly or gradually evolve into good NFL starters. Regrettably, I do see some scenarios where maybe a few desperate NFL teams and GM's looking to rapidly reboot a 3-4 year process into just a 1-2 years and take a chance on either Beck or Ewers. They'll make a similar mistake the Panthers did choosing Bryce Young over C.J. Stroud (even though former Panthers HC Frank Reich and most of the team wanted Stroud, ultimately, their idiot owner David Tepper's opinion won out and that disaster of a pick occured.)

Let's see how Carr does with hopefully a younger, fresher, more motivated HC who can focus entirely on rebuilding and reinforcing our supporting cast. Build up and bulk up on the trenches on both sides of the ball.