Should Rattler be our starter in 2025? (merged)

MikeyF said
It is really poor journalism that not one of our "talking head" Saints reporters have contacted Carr to gauge his interest in playing for Coach Moore & the Saints next year...

It's because they or their bosses are all a lot more concerned about gathering as many eyeballs as possible to make as much money as possible, than they are concerned about creating good journalism and doing thorough reporting.

MikeyF said
As you stated DA brought him in & he is getting older. He may want to go to a better situation.

I think some people can only see Carr as a "DA guy" and they want nothing to with anything that's DA, so they want nothing to do with Carr.

Look at Carr's percentage of sacks per pass attempts compared to his backups. Even if you throw out Carr's first two games, the gap between Carr and his backups is big. Yet some people insist one of his backups has a better feel for the rush and pocket awareness. Carr's backups were his backups, because Carr is objectively better than his backups.

The people who insist Carr has to go are being subjectively biased in their performance and I think it's mostly driven by the fact they can't see past Carr being "DA's guy." Carr is thought of more highly by coaches and team execs than he is by fans. I'm always going to give more credibility to evaluations from coaches and team execs over evaluations from fans.

I wanted Payton to keep Brooks. When Payton let Brooks go, I figured he knew better than I did and indeed he did.