{2023 Thread Bumped} Underhill Giving No Quarter to Nick Wright

zorro37 said
While you are absolutely right about the general cap opinions (attitude of "make it happen Loomis" etc), I wouldn't say opinions have moved too much on Carr.

I think most people at the time accepted Carr was our best option all things considered and we were better going via the free agency route than trying to take a QB with a very late first round pick in a down year for QB talent outside the top picks (Will Levis was the only QB taken anywhere near our pick). However, I think everyone did know that signing a QB via free agency meant giving him way too much money that his resumé merited and that we were getting a guy in Carr whose level of play had been shown to be in that middle tier of QBs in the league for top 10 QB money.

The hope was that the quality in the rest of our roster was going to be good enough to win without a QB at that level for the next couple of years or Carr could make that step up. Unfortunately, wrong on both counts.

Best option, I wouldn't say that. Best available QB, maybe. To me there was a lot of sign Baker, re-sign Andy Dalton, take a mid to late round flyer. I think a good portion realized that signing Derek Carr put you exactly where you are now. Best case scenario with Carr was a fringe playoff team that might get lucky in a wild card round. A good portion of fans, myself included, knew that signing Carr meant at best a mediocre team and we didn't want that. Three years ago, Mickey could have avoided a lot and been ahead of the cap had they just done what everyone, minus the front office, knew was for the betterment of the team. Suck for a year or two (we're on year 3 of suck now) and stop putting bad contract after bad extension out there to ruin next years cap. So many but Mickey saw this coming and it amazes me for all he thinks of himself he didn't, it actually concerns me. We hire a bad coach with mediocre as his ceiling, we hire an offensive coordinator in Pete that for a nice of a guy as he is can't speak publicly without sounding like a 10 year old boy at a spelling bee, sign and extend aging vet after aging vet, and trade away draft asset after draft asset because Mickey thinks he's Nostradamus or Mrs. Cleo out there. Local media and fans tend to get pulled into the bs of the front office. While Sean was here, even after Drew, we had a chance to make something out of nothing. Now with what we have leading this team it's going to take a whole lot of something to get something back out of it.