Originally posted by 12b6demurrer:
Originally posted by blizzuntz:
Originally posted by 80sbaby24:
Originally posted by 12b6demurrer:
Originally posted by 80sbaby24:
Originally posted by LambdaChi49:
2010 vs Eagles on national TV...our fans chanting for David Carr.
Forget about Alex being boo'd....I got so much s**t that MONTH because of the "We Want Carr" chants.
I dont understand why people keep bringing up David Carr. We werent chanting for Carr because we thought he was good. We were chanting for our backup QB, because our starting QB was playing awful. It could have been Nate Davis.....Shaun Hill....Troy Smith.....Cody Pickett.....whoever. Our backup could have been dopey the clown, and we would have chanted for him.
People need to get off their high horse and stop insulting people who were chanting for Carr. At least we were supporting our team by going to the games.
Yeah, and I still don't understand the logic.
"I'm starving and all I have is this bland sandwich. Instead, I will eat my own s**t." That's basically the logic behind chanting for Carr.
And if that's the support that you're going to provide, don't go to the games. SF fans already had a reputation of being bad fans, and that really just solidified it.
The bold is the dumbest analogy I have ever heard in my life.
Calling Alex a bland sandwich and David Carr s**t is ridiculous. Disagree? Well that same s**t had a higher career QB rating than Alex did at the time....and guess what? Even after Alex's "great" 2011 season, he has less than a 2% better QBR. And just to keep going with the facts, ALL (yes every single one) of the excuses made for Alex are valid for Carr as well.
You can resort to insults all you want. Call me a bad fan, whatever. Bad fans arent lifelong season ticket holders. Get off your high horse please.
I don't know, s**t was bad any way you want to spin it.
Carr? Really?
If all the "excuses" for Smith applied, then why scream for Carr? You knew what you were going to get - someone worse than Alex Smith who was even more damaged. That's why the analogy works. If you want a more specific analogy, Alex was a bland/moldy sandwich, and Carr was a bland/moldier sandwich bought from the store three years earlier. Either way, the chant made no sense. Every franchise around the league has lifetime season ticket holders, yet the 49ers fanbase is the only one known to have booed its own team the loudest, along with having the most fairweather fans. I'm not accusing you of the latter, and I'm not trying to insult you personally. But that game was by far the lowest point of the franchise for me. Never heard a football team being booed by its home fans like that, while castigating a single player when it was clear the problem was systemic. And that year really goes to show that quarterbacks don't play in a vacuum. If Alex Smith was bad on that team, then a 23.6 quarterback rating is...well...yeah, s**t. That's what the fans got with David Carr.
Bolded - I am not saying that the excuses applied for Alex so it made sense to scream for Carr. What I am saying is that Alex was playing like s**t, and deserved to be taken out of the game. Every excuse made for Alex pre-boogate, could also have been made for Carr as to why he didnt succeed in Houston. Sometimes players need a fresh start (Steve Young, Rich Gannon, etc). Fans were sick and tired of Alex not performing. We wanted a change. Even if it was Carr. You never know what you have until you try it....which was why it was so infuriating to watch Alex fail time after time for 6 years. Like I said, if you think Alex should have been given every chance to succeed because of coaching, OLine, weapons, etc. then why couldnt Carr have been given the opportunity? Alex was just as broken as Carr was at that point. (For the smart a***s who will respond to this, I am not advocating that David Carr is unquestionably better or worse than Alex at the time, it was just time for a change).
Italic - You are really going to say that fans in Philly or other big time football cities have never booed their own player? Im sorry, but this is ridiculous. Booing is part of sports. Only difference is that here in SF, some fans have seemed a little more tolerant of bad play. If a #1 pick played poorly for the Jets for 6 years, please believe there would be death threats to the QB rather than just booing. I find it absolutely ridiculous that you think that only in SF would a hometown player get booed. I honestly cant believe you would think that.
second bolded - You are entitled to your opinion. Thats fine. I personally dont see how this single event was a worst moment than Roger Craigs fumble, Joe being traded, Garrison Hearst going down against the Falcons, Steve Young's career ending injury, the Yorks taking over the team, the Kyle Williams fumble, etc. I feel like I could go on and on. But like I said, if you think booing Alex Smith and chanting for his backup during a 6 win season is worse than any of these events, thats fine. I just cannot agree.
second italic - Again, I am not some huge David Carr fan or anything. But the fact of the matter is, in just as bad a situation if not worse, Carr was able to accumulate better career stats than Alex had. So how can you call Carr s**t yet feel like Alex wasnt? And for the record, that 23 QBR was for ONE GAME. I guarantee you I can find games where Alex had that bad of a QBR, and probably worse.
