Context matters. You are using words like tone setter and culture… after 2025 Carr is gone and players like Cam Jordan, Demario Davis, Honeybadger are going to be extremely close to gone if not gone.
If Carr was 24 years old not on a 40mil per year contract and our defensive leaders weren’t in their mid 30s absolutely a 9-10 win team fighting for division is great for the future. But getting a 14-17 draft pick when the entire team will start to be rebuilt and leaders will be gone in 2026 makes zero sense to me. And I don’t think that’s a ridiculous view to have.