What boat am I missing on Bruce Carter?

[PoetTree]

Someone needs to help me out here, because I'm having an entirely different experience of Bruce Carter's play than the mainstream perspective that has become the narrative of his season...

I have spent most of every game on the phone with a friend of mine who lives in a remote location and cannot view the games live. So, I watch and give him a play-by-play. One of the players we were excited about going into this season, and have been focused on assessing throughout so far, is Bruce Carter.

As such, my eyes were very much fixated on his play through the early games of this year as I recounted what was happening for my friend...

Leading up to the San Diego game, I had surmised for my buddy that Bruce Carter might have been our best player, or certainly one of them, in every single game. For instance...

The Giants game showcased Carter's speed, agility, play-diagnosis, and tackling ability. For the longest time in the game, as I watched Eli simply sidestep everyone's pass-rush over & over again, I kept calling for ONE of our defenders to make an adjustment and get that guy on the ground. Finally, they blitz Bruce Carter and he was the *only* one who did. I had watched Eli twice evade Ware with ease (when the sack was his for the taking), and Manning had further avoided Hatcher, Selvie, and Scandrick in much the same way. But when Bruce Carter came on a middle-blitz, Eli looked like he was going to just step up and avoid him the same way he'd been doing to our rushers for three quarters, but Carter became the first defender all game to adjust his pursuit angle and track Eli down for the sack. Sensational!

Furthermore, he was roaming sideline to sideline making tackles all game, and had a KEY stop on a 3rd & long screen play in the redzone that looked like it was going to be a first-down (and possibly a touchdown), which had him knifing/fighting through two o-linemen downfield to bring the back to the ground. The Giants kicked a field goal. Given how close the score turned out, it might have been a game-saving play.

I proudly announced to my friend on the phone that Bruce Carter was our best defender that game and looked forward to seeing his play throughout the year.

Over the course of the next few weeks, I gave similar reports to my friend on the phone. I thought Bruce Carter was dynamic. He looked like the surest tackler on our team, period; even over Sean Lee. I flat-out did not see *anyone* escape a Bruce Carter tackle. Once he got his hand on the ball-carrier, they went down. His speed to the sideline, sniffing out screens or passes to the flat, was unparalleled from anyone else on our D. He also demonstrated a clear knack for blitzig and had an impressive takedown of Alex Smith against KC on a perfectly-timed launch between the line at the snap.

All in all, through the first 3 weeks of the season, I easily ranked Bruce Carter as one of the very best defenders we had and a guy who was only bound to get better throughout the year. Then came San Diego...

This is the game that, strangely, got Bruce Carter benched. I say strangely because, despite the hoopla, I counted only one bad play from Carter throughout the entire contest. Yes, Woodhead caught two TDs on him, but honestly, I thought he had exceptional coverage on the first one and thought he was going to knock the pass away; however, Rivers was on that day and the angle of the ball's descent could not have been more perfect, dropping it with indefensible precision over Carter's outstretched hand. It was a TD, sure, but this was hardly a blown coverage or assignment on Carter's part. Quite the opposite, actually; it was great coverage, but just a perfect pass.

Now, Woodhead's second TD of the game was absolutely a blown coverage on Carter's part and I don't know what happened to him on that play; hey, it happens to the best of them. But to my eye, four games into the season, it was literally the ONLY bad play I'd seen from Carter all year. Yet somehow, that one play seemed to change the entire narrative of his season, get him benched, and has had fans down on him ever since.

Am I cRAzY??

For the life of me, I could not understand his benching or the reasoning behind our coaching staff taking one of our most dynamic defenders off the field. Indeed, before Sean Lee really found his groove around week 6, I would have called Carter our best linebacker through the early part of the year --especially in man-to-man coverage, where I thought Sean Lee showed some early growing pains in making the transition to the 4-3. Who else remembers Antonio Gates torching Lee for the back-breaking TD versus the Chargers, and being several steps late in coverage against Denver's Julius Thomas all game long??

Yet the coaching staff stuck with Lee and he has worked through those struggles to become one of the most feared defenders in the League. But Carter? Despite in my eyes being one of our best defenders all year, he gets benched after ONE bad play against the Chargers and made a scapegoat for a team loss that was about far more than a single blown coverage.

I just don't get it.

Now it seems like the deck is stacked against him, as perception has changed in the media and amongst the fan-base, his playing time has decreased, and even when he makes a potentially attitude-changing play (I believe it was against the Eagles he had a perfectly executed zone-drop pick-6), the play gets nullified by a Selvie offsides call and his stellar performance once again gets swept under the rug.

I'm at a loss.

From everything I can see Bruce Carter has been one of our best defenders ALL SEASON LONG, arguably our very best through the first three games, and yet gets treated like a bum by our coaching staff, the media, and these fans.


I appear to be in some alternate reality where Bruce Carter is an awesome player. Wish the Cowboys staff would join me here. I think he could help our team...

 

[cannonball44]

Yes and no.

Nobody is denying his talent. They are denying his consistency, and rightfully so. For years i wished we had taken a more active approach in benching poorly performing players (Roy Williams, Miles Austin, a plethora of Olineman) so i cant get mad when the coaches decide to bench BC.

You have to remember that Garrett is big on CONSISTENCY.

 

[perrykemp]

I believe it has been hinted at the Carter is either not practicing the way they want, doesn't have the attention to detail they want to see in his prep (I assume film study, etc), etc.

Hard to say -- but what else could it be?

 

[PoetTree]

Yes and no.

Nobody is denying his talent. They are denying his consistency, and rightfully so. For years i wished we had taken a more active approach in benching poorly performing players (Roy Williams, Miles Austin, a plethora of Olineman) so i cant get mad when the coaches decide to bench BC.

You have to remember that Garrett is big on CONSISTENCY.

I think you missed the point of what I wrote...

By my eye, through the first many weeks of the season, Carter was consistently playing at a high-level (more so than Sean Lee), and had what amounted to ONE bad play against San Diego --where Sean Lee, who had been playing less consistently good than Carter, also had one really bad play-- and yet it's Carter who gets blamed & benched.

 

[perrykemp]

I think you missed the point of what I wrote...

By my eye, through the first many weeks of the season, Carter was consistently playing at a high-level (more so than Sean Lee), and had what amounted to ONE bad play against San Diego --where Sean Lee, who had been playing less consistently good than Carter, also had one really bad play-- and yet it's Carter who gets blamed & benched.

For what it is worth, PFF has Carter as 19th ranked (out of 34) 4-3 OLBs, and Ernie Sims as the 31st (out of 34) 4-3 OLBs.

 

[ufcrules1]

Carter was consistently playing at a high-level and had what amounted to ONE bad play against San Diego

Oh, it was just one bad play? He must have given his jersey to some other player then, because I saw #54 make several bad plays in that game.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Carter was consistently playing at a high-level (more so than Sean Lee), and had what amounted to ONE bad play against San Diego

Better rewatch the game.

 

[lqmac1]

Someone needs to help me out here, because I'm having an entirely different experience of Bruce Carter's play than the mainstream perspective that has become the narrative of his season...

I have spent most of every game on the phone with a friend of mine who lives in a remote location and cannot view the games live. So, I watch and give him a play-by-play. One of the players we were excited about going into this season, and have been focused on assessing throughout so far, is Bruce Carter.

As such, my eyes were very much fixated on his play through the early games of this year as I recounted what was happening for my friend...

Leading up to the San Diego game, I had surmised for my buddy that Bruce Carter might have been our best player, or certainly one of them, in every single game. For instance...

The Giants game showcased Carter's speed, agility, play-diagnosis, and tackling ability. For the longest time in the game, as I watched Eli simply sidestep everyone's pass-rush over & over again, I kept calling for ONE of our defenders to make an adjustment and get that guy on the ground. Finally, they blitz Bruce Carter and he was the *only* one who did. I had watched Eli twice evade Ware with ease (when the sack was his for the taking), and Manning had further avoided Hatcher, Selvie, and Scandrick in much the same way. But when Bruce Carter came on a middle-blitz, Eli looked like he was going to just step up and avoid him the same way he'd been doing to our rushers for three quarters, but Carter became the first defender all game to adjust his pursuit angle and track Eli down for the sack. Sensational!

Furthermore, he was roaming sideline to sideline making tackles all game, and had a KEY stop on a 3rd & long screen play in the redzone that looked like it was going to be a first-down (and possibly a touchdown), which had him knifing/fighting through two o-linemen downfield to bring the back to the ground. The Giants kicked a field goal. Given how close the score turned out, it might have been a game-saving play.

I proudly announced to my friend on the phone that Bruce Carter was our best defender that game and looked forward to seeing his play throughout the year.

Over the course of the next few weeks, I gave similar reports to my friend on the phone. I thought Bruce Carter was dynamic. He looked like the surest tackler on our team, period; even over Sean Lee. I flat-out did not see *anyone* escape a Bruce Carter tackle. Once he got his hand on the ball-carrier, they went down. His speed to the sideline, sniffing out screens or passes to the flat, was unparalleled from anyone else on our D. He also demonstrated a clear knack for blitzig and had an impressive takedown of Alex Smith against KC on a perfectly-timed launch between the line at the snap.

All in all, through the first 3 weeks of the season, I easily ranked Bruce Carter as one of the very best defenders we had and a guy who was only bound to get better throughout the year. Then came San Diego...

This is the game that, strangely, got Bruce Carter benched. I say strangely because, despite the hoopla, I counted only one bad play from Carter throughout the entire contest. Yes, Woodhead caught two TDs on him, but honestly, I thought he had exceptional coverage on the first one and thought he was going to knock the pass away; however, Rivers was on that day and the angle of the ball's descent could not have been more perfect, dropping it with indefensible precision over Carter's outstretched hand. It was a TD, sure, but this was hardly a blown coverage or assignment on Carter's part. Quite the opposite, actually; it was great coverage, but just a perfect pass.

Now, Woodhead's second TD of the game was absolutely a blown coverage on Carter's part and I don't know what happened to him on that play; hey, it happens to the best of them. But to my eye, four games into the season, it was literally the ONLY bad play I'd seen from Carter all year. Yet somehow, that one play seemed to change the entire narrative of his season, get him benched, and has had fans down on him ever since.

Am I cRAzY??

For the life of me, I could not understand his benching or the reasoning behind our coaching staff taking one of our most dynamic defenders off the field. Indeed, before Sean Lee really found his groove around week 6, I would have called Carter our best linebacker through the early part of the year --especially in man-to-man coverage, where I thought Sean Lee showed some early growing pains in making the transition to the 4-3. Who else remembers Antonio Gates torching Lee for the back-breaking TD versus the Chargers, and being several steps late in coverage against Denver's Julius Thomas all game long??

Yet the coaching staff stuck with Lee and he has worked through those struggles to become one of the most feared defenders in the League. But Carter? Despite in my eyes being one of our best defenders all year, he gets benched after ONE bad play against the Chargers and made a scapegoat for a team loss that was about far more than a single blown coverage.

I just don't get it.

Now it seems like the deck is stacked against him, as perception has changed in the media and amongst the fan-base, his playing time has decreased, and even when he makes a potentially attitude-changing play (I believe it was against the Eagles he had a perfectly executed zone-drop pick-6), the play gets nullified by a Selvie offsides call and his stellar performance once again gets swept under the rug.

I'm at a loss.

From everything I can see Bruce Carter has been one of our best defenders ALL SEASON LONG, arguably our very best through the first three games, and yet gets treated like a bum by our coaching staff, the media, and these fans.


I appear to be in some alternate reality where Bruce Carter is an awesome player. Wish the Cowboys staff would join me here. I think he could help our team...

Wrong scheme!

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Maybe it is the new scheme and he is having a little trouble picking it up and needs more time.
Maybe Carter bought into his own hype and thought he was talented enough to just play and not prepare.
Maybe he is just having a down year.
Maybe he just isn't as good as we all thought and hoped.

Too bad Sims or Durant haven't stepped up to let us forget about Carter.
Too bad Holoman has a neck injury and has been out for a long while. Would be nice to see him out there.

 

[theSHOW]

Your not alone on Carter playing well. He did struggle vs San D and Den but he has surely outplayed Simms and vs Minny he seems to get more minutes. I am sure you will see Bruce back in the starting unit this week in the SuperDome

 

[DogFace]

I'm with you op. They choose this guy to teach a lesson? Last year pff had him as the highest rated by percentage tackler in the league. Or tackling lb can't remember. The benching hurt him this year. Sims is terrible. Was last year too.
Therefore benching shouldn't have been an option. IMO

 

[Seven]

I think you missed the point of what I wrote...

By my eye, through the first many weeks of the season, Carter was consistently playing at a high-level (more so than Sean Lee), and had what amounted to ONE bad play against San Diego --where Sean Lee, who had been playing less consistently good than Carter, also had one really bad play-- and yet it's Carter who gets blamed & benched.

He had more than one bad play. There were times, in that game, where he was a liability. Meaning he was in the way, missed the tackle and caused others to miss the tackle. See: Sean Lee.

I'm sorry dude.......San Diego was a mess for Carter. He was schooled by Rivers.( I HATE to even type that.)

With that said I love the kid. He's brimming with potential, IMO. They just gotta find a way to tap that potential consistently.

 

[OhSnap]

I think he want's to go to NO with RR and is bored playing second fiddle to Lee.

 

[The Natural]

For the life of me, I could not understand his benching or the reasoning behind our coaching staff taking one of our most dynamic defenders off the field

Because there appears to be only one competent coach on the defensive side of the ball...and it aint the LB coach. Pretty much par the course for this team to pick and choose who they want to make an example of.

 

[Idgit]

I really like Bruce Carter. The problems with his play in SD were with more than one really lazy coverage on a wheel route. And I don't think Sims has been as bad as advertised, either, though he has been out of position at some important times.
Overall, I'm glad these defensive coaches are withholding snaps when players don't meet their expectations, and that they're doing it for relatively high-profile players like Bruce Carter. That said, the light going on for him is one of the things I"m most hoping for for the second half of this season. Along with having a second rangy safety we can play on passing downs, getting Ware and Claiborne back and relatively healthy, and maybe getting some defensive snaps from Holloman when he comes back after the bye. These are my biggest hopes for improving the play of the pass defense and making this team capable of contending against other good teams in a possible playoff stretch.

Oh, and on offense: hoping Dez' back issues aren't chronic and don't cause him to miss time after the bye week.

 

[the_h0wey]

Someone needs to help me out here, because I'm having an entirely different experience of Bruce Carter's play than the mainstream perspective that has become the narrative of his season...

I have spent most of every game on the phone with a friend of mine who lives in a remote location and cannot view the games live. So, I watch and give him a play-by-play. One of the players we were excited about going into this season, and have been focused on assessing throughout so far, is Bruce Carter.

As such, my eyes were very much fixated on his play through the early games of this year as I recounted what was happening for my friend...

Leading up to the San Diego game, I had surmised for my buddy that Bruce Carter might have been our best player, or certainly one of them, in every single game. For instance...

The Giants game showcased Carter's speed, agility, play-diagnosis, and tackling ability. For the longest time in the game, as I watched Eli simply sidestep everyone's pass-rush over & over again, I kept calling for ONE of our defenders to make an adjustment and get that guy on the ground. Finally, they blitz Bruce Carter and he was the *only* one who did. I had watched Eli twice evade Ware with ease (when the sack was his for the taking), and Manning had further avoided Hatcher, Selvie, and Scandrick in much the same way. But when Bruce Carter came on a middle-blitz, Eli looked like he was going to just step up and avoid him the same way he'd been doing to our rushers for three quarters, but Carter became the first defender all game to adjust his pursuit angle and track Eli down for the sack. Sensational!

Furthermore, he was roaming sideline to sideline making tackles all game, and had a KEY stop on a 3rd & long screen play in the redzone that looked like it was going to be a first-down (and possibly a touchdown), which had him knifing/fighting through two o-linemen downfield to bring the back to the ground. The Giants kicked a field goal. Given how close the score turned out, it might have been a game-saving play.

I proudly announced to my friend on the phone that Bruce Carter was our best defender that game and looked forward to seeing his play throughout the year.

Over the course of the next few weeks, I gave similar reports to my friend on the phone. I thought Bruce Carter was dynamic. He looked like the surest tackler on our team, period; even over Sean Lee. I flat-out did not see *anyone* escape a Bruce Carter tackle. Once he got his hand on the ball-carrier, they went down. His speed to the sideline, sniffing out screens or passes to the flat, was unparalleled from anyone else on our D. He also demonstrated a clear knack for blitzig and had an impressive takedown of Alex Smith against KC on a perfectly-timed launch between the line at the snap.

All in all, through the first 3 weeks of the season, I easily ranked Bruce Carter as one of the very best defenders we had and a guy who was only bound to get better throughout the year. Then came San Diego...

This is the game that, strangely, got Bruce Carter benched. I say strangely because, despite the hoopla, I counted only one bad play from Carter throughout the entire contest. Yes, Woodhead caught two TDs on him, but honestly, I thought he had exceptional coverage on the first one and thought he was going to knock the pass away; however, Rivers was on that day and the angle of the ball's descent could not have been more perfect, dropping it with indefensible precision over Carter's outstretched hand. It was a TD, sure, but this was hardly a blown coverage or assignment on Carter's part. Quite the opposite, actually; it was great coverage, but just a perfect pass.

Now, Woodhead's second TD of the game was absolutely a blown coverage on Carter's part and I don't know what happened to him on that play; hey, it happens to the best of them. But to my eye, four games into the season, it was literally the ONLY bad play I'd seen from Carter all year. Yet somehow, that one play seemed to change the entire narrative of his season, get him benched, and has had fans down on him ever since.

Am I cRAzY??

For the life of me, I could not understand his benching or the reasoning behind our coaching staff taking one of our most dynamic defenders off the field. Indeed, before Sean Lee really found his groove around week 6, I would have called Carter our best linebacker through the early part of the year --especially in man-to-man coverage, where I thought Sean Lee showed some early growing pains in making the transition to the 4-3. Who else remembers Antonio Gates torching Lee for the back-breaking TD versus the Chargers, and being several steps late in coverage against Denver's Julius Thomas all game long??

Yet the coaching staff stuck with Lee and he has worked through those struggles to become one of the most feared defenders in the League. But Carter? Despite in my eyes being one of our best defenders all year, he gets benched after ONE bad play against the Chargers and made a scapegoat for a team loss that was about far more than a single blown coverage.

I just don't get it.

Now it seems like the deck is stacked against him, as perception has changed in the media and amongst the fan-base, his playing time has decreased, and even when he makes a potentially attitude-changing play (I believe it was against the Eagles he had a perfectly executed zone-drop pick-6), the play gets nullified by a Selvie offsides call and his stellar performance once again gets swept under the rug.

I'm at a loss.

From everything I can see Bruce Carter has been one of our best defenders ALL SEASON LONG, arguably our very best through the first three games, and yet gets treated like a bum by our coaching staff, the media, and these fans.


I appear to be in some alternate reality where Bruce Carter is an awesome player. Wish the Cowboys staff would join me here. I think he could help our team...

Where does your friend live that he cant watch the game on tv, the internet, or listen to it? Mars?

 

[xwalker]

Someone needs to help me out here, because I'm having an entirely different experience of Bruce Carter's play than the mainstream perspective that has become the narrative of his season...

I have spent most of every game on the phone with a friend of mine who lives in a remote location and cannot view the games live. So, I watch and give him a play-by-play. One of the players we were excited about going into this season, and have been focused on assessing throughout so far, is Bruce Carter.

As such, my eyes were very much fixated on his play through the early games of this year as I recounted what was happening for my friend...

Leading up to the San Diego game, I had surmised for my buddy that Bruce Carter might have been our best player, or certainly one of them, in every single game. For instance...

The Giants game showcased Carter's speed, agility, play-diagnosis, and tackling ability. For the longest time in the game, as I watched Eli simply sidestep everyone's pass-rush over & over again, I kept calling for ONE of our defenders to make an adjustment and get that guy on the ground. Finally, they blitz Bruce Carter and he was the *only* one who did. I had watched Eli twice evade Ware with ease (when the sack was his for the taking), and Manning had further avoided Hatcher, Selvie, and Scandrick in much the same way. But when Bruce Carter came on a middle-blitz, Eli looked like he was going to just step up and avoid him the same way he'd been doing to our rushers for three quarters, but Carter became the first defender all game to adjust his pursuit angle and track Eli down for the sack. Sensational!

Furthermore, he was roaming sideline to sideline making tackles all game, and had a KEY stop on a 3rd & long screen play in the redzone that looked like it was going to be a first-down (and possibly a touchdown), which had him knifing/fighting through two o-linemen downfield to bring the back to the ground. The Giants kicked a field goal. Given how close the score turned out, it might have been a game-saving play.

I proudly announced to my friend on the phone that Bruce Carter was our best defender that game and looked forward to seeing his play throughout the year.

Over the course of the next few weeks, I gave similar reports to my friend on the phone. I thought Bruce Carter was dynamic. He looked like the surest tackler on our team, period; even over Sean Lee. I flat-out did not see *anyone* escape a Bruce Carter tackle. Once he got his hand on the ball-carrier, they went down. His speed to the sideline, sniffing out screens or passes to the flat, was unparalleled from anyone else on our D. He also demonstrated a clear knack for blitzig and had an impressive takedown of Alex Smith against KC on a perfectly-timed launch between the line at the snap.

All in all, through the first 3 weeks of the season, I easily ranked Bruce Carter as one of the very best defenders we had and a guy who was only bound to get better throughout the year. Then came San Diego...

This is the game that, strangely, got Bruce Carter benched. I say strangely because, despite the hoopla, I counted only one bad play from Carter throughout the entire contest. Yes, Woodhead caught two TDs on him, but honestly, I thought he had exceptional coverage on the first one and thought he was going to knock the pass away; however, Rivers was on that day and the angle of the ball's descent could not have been more perfect, dropping it with indefensible precision over Carter's outstretched hand. It was a TD, sure, but this was hardly a blown coverage or assignment on Carter's part. Quite the opposite, actually; it was great coverage, but just a perfect pass.

Now, Woodhead's second TD of the game was absolutely a blown coverage on Carter's part and I don't know what happened to him on that play; hey, it happens to the best of them. But to my eye, four games into the season, it was literally the ONLY bad play I'd seen from Carter all year. Yet somehow, that one play seemed to change the entire narrative of his season, get him benched, and has had fans down on him ever since.

Am I cRAzY??

For the life of me, I could not understand his benching or the reasoning behind our coaching staff taking one of our most dynamic defenders off the field. Indeed, before Sean Lee really found his groove around week 6, I would have called Carter our best linebacker through the early part of the year --especially in man-to-man coverage, where I thought Sean Lee showed some early growing pains in making the transition to the 4-3. Who else remembers Antonio Gates torching Lee for the back-breaking TD versus the Chargers, and being several steps late in coverage against Denver's Julius Thomas all game long??

Yet the coaching staff stuck with Lee and he has worked through those struggles to become one of the most feared defenders in the League. But Carter? Despite in my eyes being one of our best defenders all year, he gets benched after ONE bad play against the Chargers and made a scapegoat for a team loss that was about far more than a single blown coverage.

I just don't get it.

Now it seems like the deck is stacked against him, as perception has changed in the media and amongst the fan-base, his playing time has decreased, and even when he makes a potentially attitude-changing play (I believe it was against the Eagles he had a perfectly executed zone-drop pick-6), the play gets nullified by a Selvie offsides call and his stellar performance once again gets swept under the rug.

I'm at a loss.

From everything I can see Bruce Carter has been one of our best defenders ALL SEASON LONG, arguably our very best through the first three games, and yet gets treated like a bum by our coaching staff, the media, and these fans.


I appear to be in some alternate reality where Bruce Carter is an awesome player. Wish the Cowboys staff would join me here. I think he could help our team...

Good post.

I agree to an extent. Carter makes a lot of good plays. The benching seems odd.

He does have some plays where he appears to lose focus or lack intensity, but that seems very limited. He is much better than Sims, IMO.

 

[Nightman]

He had more than one bad play. There were times, in that game, where he was a liability. Meaning he was in the way, missed the tackle and caused others to miss the tackle. See: Sean Lee.

I'm sorry dude.......San Diego was a mess for Carter. He was schooled by Rivers.( I HATE to even type that.)

With that said I love the kid. He's brimming with potential, IMO. They just gotta find a way to tap that potential consistently.

Lee had a pretty bad game against SD as well. I know he got the INT, but Gates abused him most of the day. I think Carter needs to play more, his speed is undeniable and his tackling is pretty solid.

 

[tomsanders921]

Lee had a pretty bad game against SD as well. I know he got the INT, but Gates abused him most of the day. I think Carter needs to play more, his speed is undeniable and his tackling is pretty solid.

Yeah, its not like Carter was the only one who didn't play well. The whole defense struggled in that game. It seemed like Rivers had an answer for everything we were trying to do on defense.

In Carter's defense, he had great coverage on the one touchdown. It was just a perfect throw and catch. You can't really play much better coverage than that. He missed swatting the ball by a couple inches. Granted, the wheel route was pretty bad on his part.

Lee got abused just as much as Carter that game, including the game sealing touchdown to gates.

 

[Dhragon]

I thought I remember Garrett mentioning something about Carter's attitude. That's the impression I got. Maybe he is moping around because he likes the 3-4 better and isn't buying into his new job in the 4-3?