guys, calm down, let me put it this way to you about carpenter and what parcells he said, parcells said he learned 3 things from tom landry and one of them was, you keep a player till his 3rd year, and his 3rd year in preseason he has to show you something in training camp, period no more excuses
now im not making excuses for carpenter, but he did have a thigh injury and he could have taken season ending surgery and he didnt,
next, wade philips addmited that he just played him on one preseason game, even after moving him to inside linebacker, from playing outside linebacker, thats a whole different ballgame
now if you guys remember burnett, he hasnt played full time linebacker, but in pass coverage he has been there, that is one of carpenters strenghts, he is good at coverage
i have read reports that he wasnt strong enough, and coming from playing in a 4-3 defense, its a whole different ballgame to play the 3-4 then move from outside linebacker, to inside, so i say give carpenter the benefit of the doubt, like one guy mentioned, randy white,
they even the great tom landry played him at MLB his first year, which really wasted his time, then the next year, he played him at DT, and it took him 2 more years to get ready, like randy said, at DT you had to learn the little baby steps at DT, just alittle too much one way or the other, and your done,
so give carpenter a chance,
another guy i point to is jimmy smith, wr, we drafted him, cut him, he played the next year in phily, they cut him his 4th year, due to one year hurt, he excelled, so give carpenter a chance,
