In an attempt to cure the insomnia I had while at a sleep study, I actually read some of them and started seeing the same arguments, which I found to be highly disagreeable. One usually inactive Twitter user even flooded my mentions with links to articles filled with puffery about Carr. Carr is the 53-touchdown-throwin', possibly-eyeliner-wearing, better-than-his-brother-ever-was, baby-faced stud. Oakland is tired of the retreads, reclamation projects, and draft busts from the last three decades.
DEREK CARR STATS VS BRONCOS FULL
Oakland fans came out in full force to back their guy, because that's what a fan base starved for success will do when you criticize the player who might be the best quarterback their team has drafted since Ken Stabler in 1968. Carr's C%+ went from minus-1.3 percent (29th) as a rookie to minus-1.2 percent (31st) in 2015, and this even adjusts for things like dropped passes and throwaways.
DEREK CARR STATS VS BRONCOS TV
Between that comment and hearing on my TV that Carr was the best young quarterback in the league, I guess I felt the need to say "stop the presses" with the late-night tweet that he was overrated, which I quickly summarized in our look at the bottom passers in adjusted completion rate. You basically cannot talk about Bridgewater without someone bringing up Carr and vice versa, for obvious 2014 draft-related reasons.
One of his fans already left a misguided comment in the discussion thread for our ESPN article on the top 10 quarterbacks in this metric, which included Teddy Bridgewater at No. I was working on the second part of our look at passing plus-minus for ESPN Insider, and I already knew Carr would cause some controversy. Last week, I poked the bear on Twitter when I said Oakland quarterback Derek Carr was overrated. One thing sportswriters usually want to avoid is poking the bear for fun, because that's when the bears get really angry, and the mama bear is most protective when you target her young cub. When a sportswriter incurs the wrath of a fan base with his work, he probably said something they find highly disagreeable.
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