another stupid chicago bear post

Over at the Bears Official Website, they have this thing where this dude, Larry Mayer, answers questions from fans. In the latest edition, someone asks if the Bears are interested in signing David Carr, to which he replied

"David Carr wouldn’t be an upgrade over either Rex Grossman or Brian Griese, so I don’t see any way that the Bears would be interested in signing him."

Um. Here, let me break this down for you: Granted, Carr had a losing record last year, and the threw one more interception (11) than he did touchdowns (12), while Grossman won a bunch of games and threw three more touchdowns (23) than interceptions (20). But here's the thing that kind of skews those numbers: Rex Grossman played for what was an otherwise Super Bowl-caliber team in the NFC, where every other team sucks. And Carr played in the AFC. AND HE PLAYED FOR THE TEXANS. You could take a 25 year old Joe Montana, feed him steroids, and make him drink from the Holy Grail like they did in the one Indiana Jones movie, and he would STILL be able to do not a damn thing. He was sacked forty-one times to Sexy Rexie's 21, yet still managed to complete 68.3 percent of his passes to Rex's 54.6, and had an actual decent QB rating of 82.1, which was way better than Rex's 73.9. He also only accounted for 19 turnovers (12 picks, 7 lost fumbles) to Rex's 29. And the kicker? David Carr didn't single-handedly lose the Super Bowl last year. David Carr sucks because he's a good - possibly great - QB playing for a team stupid enough to draft Mario Williams last year, when they could have traded that pick to any of the 31 other teams who would have mortgaged their teams to have Reggie Bush, used the players/picks/first-born children they got in return to build an offensive line and win some games. Rex Grossman sucks because he just fucking sucks. The Texans sucked and dragged David Carr down with them. The Bears won a bunch of games, and they did it in spite of Rex Grossman.

I'm calling it right now. By this time next year, all the columnists and commentators will be applauding some team (probably the Vikings) for being smart enough to pick up a franchise QB like Carr, after he has a breakout year. Meanwhile, Rex Grossman will just be hoping to catch on somewhere as a backup, in a Joey Harrington/Patrick Ramsey "this is his last chance, seriously" situation. And the Bears will still need a starting QB, which is essentially something they've been looking for since Sid Freaking Luckman retired.

Also, they'll be looking to draft a running back, but that's a rant for another day. 2007 is going to be a looooong year.