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POSTED 6:30 p.m. EDT, July 1, 2007
CARTER NOT CLOSE TO AN NFL RETURN
As we see it, whatever favor ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli was repaying when he suggested that former Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter might have a shot at getting back to the NFL must have been a huge one.
On Friday, Len wrote that at least one team is "considering" bringing Carter in for a workout. If that's true, the owner of said team should be "considering" firing the G.M.
For starters, Carter couldn't even make it in the CFL, and couldn't land a job in the Arena Football League. Instead, he's been relegated to the AFL's B-level cousin, and he's not exactly tearing things up there.
An af2 source (hey, we've got sources at every level of the sport) tells us that Carter is playing "okay" by af2 standards. And he's coming off of a one-month suspension for "missing team meetings and a practice," and all that that might imply to folks who are inclined to try to read between the lines, correctly or otherwise, if they so choose to try to do so.
Carter's numbers are good but not great -- in eight games (through Friday night), he has thrown for 2,190 yards, with 48 touchdowns and six picks. And, as the source explained, Friday night's loss to the Amarillo Dusters showed that Carter still doesn't have the maturity necessary to succeed in the NFL.
On fourth and goal from the Amarillo one-foot line in the fourth quarter of a tight game in which Carter's Bossier-Shreveport Battlewings held the lead, Carter tried to dive over the pile. He was denied. Carter then went bonkos, spiking the ball and then throwing his helmet.
The result? Two penalty flags, giving the Dusters the ball not on their own one-inch line but at their 21 yard line. Two plays later, the Dusters scored the go-ahead touchdown. Game over for the Battlewings.
For Carter, the game ended a long time ago.
CARTER NOT CLOSE TO AN NFL RETURN
As we see it, whatever favor ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli was repaying when he suggested that former Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter might have a shot at getting back to the NFL must have been a huge one.
On Friday, Len wrote that at least one team is "considering" bringing Carter in for a workout. If that's true, the owner of said team should be "considering" firing the G.M.
For starters, Carter couldn't even make it in the CFL, and couldn't land a job in the Arena Football League. Instead, he's been relegated to the AFL's B-level cousin, and he's not exactly tearing things up there.
An af2 source (hey, we've got sources at every level of the sport) tells us that Carter is playing "okay" by af2 standards. And he's coming off of a one-month suspension for "missing team meetings and a practice," and all that that might imply to folks who are inclined to try to read between the lines, correctly or otherwise, if they so choose to try to do so.
Carter's numbers are good but not great -- in eight games (through Friday night), he has thrown for 2,190 yards, with 48 touchdowns and six picks. And, as the source explained, Friday night's loss to the Amarillo Dusters showed that Carter still doesn't have the maturity necessary to succeed in the NFL.
On fourth and goal from the Amarillo one-foot line in the fourth quarter of a tight game in which Carter's Bossier-Shreveport Battlewings held the lead, Carter tried to dive over the pile. He was denied. Carter then went bonkos, spiking the ball and then throwing his helmet.
The result? Two penalty flags, giving the Dusters the ball not on their own one-inch line but at their 21 yard line. Two plays later, the Dusters scored the go-ahead touchdown. Game over for the Battlewings.
For Carter, the game ended a long time ago.
