OT Derek Carr retires

[Brandon_Cox]

Apparently, his throwing shoulder is shot. The Saints are going to be the worst team in football this year and we get to play them.

Saints QB Derek Carr retiring from NFL after 11 seasons due to shoulder injury

 

[The Gr8est]

Apparently, his throwing shoulder is shot. The Saints are going to be the worst team in football this year and we get to play them.

Saints QB Derek Carr retiring from NFL after 11 seasons due to shoulder injury

So….

You are saying there will be ANOTHER Arch Manning in black and gold?

 

[maust]

So….

You are saying there will be ANOTHER Arch Manning in black and gold?

That's exactly what he's saying

 

[Brandon_Cox]

You are saying there will be ANOTHER Arch Manning in black and gold?

I can't see him declaring for the draft after next year. He's making a fortune in NIL and even if he wasn't his family has more money than God. They're going to want him to start for a couple of years in college before heading off to the NFL. Of course, the Saints will still suck in a couple of years with the cap hell they've put themselves in, so maybe I'm saying that after all

 

[Huckleberry1]

Apparently, his throwing shoulder is shot. The Saints are going to be the worst team in football this year and we get to play them.

Saints QB Derek Carr retiring from NFL after 11 seasons due to shoulder injury

Safe to say that the Saints are all in on Arch Manning.

 

[Uptown]

 

[Hammer of Thor]

I can't see him declaring for the draft after next year. He's making a fortune in NIL and even if he wasn't his family has more money than God. They're going to want him to start for a couple of years in college before heading off to the NFL. Of course, the Saints will still suck in a couple of years with the cap hell they've put themselves in, so maybe I'm saying that after all

More money than he’d make in the NFL?

If the Saints hold a special place in his and his family’s heart, the cards may not unfold this way again.

 

[Pape]

Wish he retired before we traded Milton... cest la vie

 

[dliverey44]

Wish he retired before we traded Milton... cest la vie

I feel like the Saints are more comfortable with Shough and Rattler over than Milton.

 

[Ring 6]

Carr was the 17th highest paid player (career earnings) in NFL history for going 77-92 and making the playoffs once and going 1 and done.
Most overpaid player in history?

 

[jmt57]

I feel like the Saints are more comfortable with Shough and Rattler over than Milton.

But Milton allegedly wanted to go to a team where he had a shot at competing for the starting job.

The Saints fit that description far more than the Cowboys do.

Unless NO was already in full tank-for-Arch mode.

 

[Twentytothree]

But Milton allegedly wanted to go to a team where he had a shot at competing for the starting job.

The Saints fit that description far more than the Cowboys do.

Yeah, he could have gone and f'd up their dreams of the #1 pick as well...

 

[Bill Lee]

He did well.

As the article points out, da Raiders sat him for two games two years ago rather than letting his injury guarantees kick in.

They asked him if he'd waive those guarantees, he declined, then signed with NO, played two years and took in around $20M to do so.

Florio's article below says he's walking away from $30M salary he could have gotten if he had surgery and rehabbed for a year.

Florio claims in exchange for accepting a $10M bonus he's willing to waive rights to that extra money because he doesn't want to do surgery and rehab in the near future.

He's able to make that kind of decision because he's got $200M in career earnings already.

He took in four times as much money as his much more highly touted brother David.

His dead cap money means that NO will indeed be better off going with rookie QBs for the next few seasons.

Derek Carr gives up $30 million to retire

After months of awkward chop, the Saints and quarterback Derek Carr managed to figure out a smooth landing.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[imahobgoblin]

So….

You are saying there will be ANOTHER Arch Manning in black and gold?

No. Arch said he is staying in college and not coming out next year.

 

[jmt57]

Actually there is a good chance the Saints could have back-to-back #1 overall draft picks, à la Jacksonville in 2021 and 2022 or Tampa Bay (76-77 and 86-87).

That's a special kind of ineptitude right there.

 

[maust]

I guess Carr is somewhere in the conversation

He did well.
$294M)
He's able to make that kind of decision because he's got $200M in career earnings already.

He took in four times as much money as his much more highly touted brother David.

He has done quite well under the circumstances. The $200M, in combination with the losing record, get him in the convo when people talk about 'most overpaid' but realistically when one considers the teams he played on I'm not sure Carr being 15 games under .500 is more egregious than Cousins (6th in all time earnings $294M) being 9 games over it and making @ $100M (and counting) more. Carr's time with the Raiders could pretty much be considered a wash with Cousins time in Washington in so far as expectations and the relative quality of the rosters but Captain Kirk then went on to 6 seasons with some damn good rosters in MN and still didn't accomplish much more than Carr other than emptying considerably more Brinks trucks. No one has played the NFL contract fiddle quite the way Cousins has, gotta tip our caps to him in that regard.

All that doesn't come close to my personal candidate for most overpaid NFL player of all time though. When it comes to doing squat and walking away with boatload$ of NFL bucks the champ has to be JaMarcus Russell and his $5.623M per win. Carr and his $2.5M per win and Cousins' $3.54M per win have to be combined to get to a JaMarcus level of overpaid. Russell was so overpaid the league created the rookie wage scale to keep it from happening again. THAT is the definition of 'most overpaid'

 

[Pape]

Carr was the 17th highest paid player (career earnings) in NFL history for going 77-92 and making the playoffs once and going 1 and done.
Most overpaid player in history?

thats gotta be dak prescott

 

[Brandon_Cox]

If Garrett Nussmeier has the breakout year at LSU that many are predicting, he might end up 80 miles to the east to play for his dad Doug, who is the Saints offensive coordinator.

And circling back to the Pats, there are no sure wins in the NFL, but we should absolutely roll New Orleans

 

[upstater1]

McDaniels saw this and knew about this; it was obvious at the Raiders

 

[BobDigital]

Saints got Tyler Shough with the 40th pick overall. That choice is going to be looked at closely now.

I know some people didn't believe in Sanders... but to take a guy who will be almost 26 near the time the season starts (yes, you read that right... Turns that is September). And has 1 full season starting which wasn't even all that good.... It was pretty good sure. But considering his injury history it needed to be absolutely great. It wasn't. He was no second rounder... that is for damn sure. At least not imo.