<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Monday, Mar 17, 2008 11:27 am EDT David Carr was too darn cool to be any good at his job By MJD ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas recently talked to brand new New York Giant David Carr about his past failures, and his hopes for future success. During the course of the conversation, Yasinskas sacked Carr three times. Okay, that's (probably) not true. But that doesn't mean the conversation wasn't interesting and/or confusing. Carr did offer an explanation or two for why his career hasn't gone exactly as planned: He was just way too cool. Then, his trademark California cool --wearing the glove, dropping the word "dude'' often in conversation and that shoulder-length hair -- started rubbing people in the locker room and in NASCAR land the wrong way. [...] In hindsight, the 28-year-old Carr says he has it now: The California cool has to go. "That's something guys from California have to work against,'' Carr said. "Sometimes, we make things look too easy. I thought I had the right attitude in Houston and Carolina, but I realize now that I didn't. I worked hard, but I didn't prepare myself well enough to give my teammates true confidence in me.'' [...] "I always worked hard and studied film and all that stuff,'' Carr said. "But I didn't really let people know that I was doing that. I've realized you've got to show that to get respect and confidence. I'm going to go in with the attitude that I'm going to work harder than I ever have before and leave no stone unturned.'' First, I'm unclear on exactly what it was that David Carr ever made look easy. Every time I watched him play, I thought, "That looks like it really hurts," which is the reaction I think most people had, since Carr spent most of his time crawling out from underneath a pile of linebackers. Not much about that looked easy. I'm also a little confused on how hard Carr worked. He says he worked hard, and then that he didn't prepare himself well enough. And again, he says he worked hard, he just failed to let other people know that he was working hard, which he should have done, because if he had, his teammates would know that he was working hard, just not quite hard enough to be well-prepared. Because that would have ... helped? I don't know. What's clear, though, is that Carr has always been the epitome of cool. He wears a white glove, which makes him similar to Michael Jackson, and Michael Jackson is still cool, right? I bet Carr also is so cool that he wears a red leather jacket with studded shoulders and multiple useless zippers. For Carr's sake, I hope no sort of scandal hits Michael Jackson that would make him uncool. I think it would be a terrible waste if Carr's cool was sacrificed just so he could be useful in any way in the NFL.</div> http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_...h?urn=nfl,72068 Lol what the hell is Carr talking about?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Monday, Mar 17, 2008 11:27 am EDT David Carr was too darn cool to be any good at his job By MJD</div> The title alone suggests that the author is way out of touch with what it means to be cool. If everyone was "cool". would there even be a word for it? The author put a picutre of David getting his hair cut by a women (not a man in a barbershop), and smiling as if he is enjoying life. On the way into the interview, the secretary probably winked at David as he walked in, but just rolled her eyes as the interviewer followed. Another person in the office probably offered David a water or soda before walking into his office. The interviewer is thinking 'She never offers that to me. Must be my Old Spice and my bald spot. Why can't I attact women like that, instead I'm stuck with this fatass wife.' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas recently talked to brand new New York Giant David Carr about his past failures, and his hopes for future success. During the course of the conversation, Yasinskas sacked Carr three times. Okay, that's (probably) not true. But that doesn't mean the conversation wasn't interesting and/or confusing. Carr did offer an explanation or two for why his career hasn't gone exactly as planned: He was just way too cool.</div> Come on, Carr never said "I'm way too cool for this". The author put that in for effect. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Then, his trademark California cool --wearing the glove, dropping the word "dude'' often in conversation and that shoulder-length hair -- started rubbing people in the locker room and in NASCAR land the wrong way. [...] In hindsight, the 28-year-old Carr says he has it now: The California cool has to go.</div> If I were Carr, I would feel somewhat betrayed by the manner in which this guy is painting him. The writer lured him into an interview, allows him to feel comfortable talking with him, and Carr says the word "Dude" a few times. Who gives a crap? Why even bring up something like that afterward? Why stab him in the back like that publicly? Joe Buck says the word "Dude" and he's one of the most mature, and articulate people I have ever heard. what gloves he wears, the length of his hair? Can you not dig up anything relevant? Mr. Author, did your father doink you as a child if you said the word dude? The author of this article is a dictionary definition of the word "hater". <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"That's something guys from California have to work against,'' Carr said. "Sometimes, we make things look too easy. I thought I had the right attitude in Houston and Carolina, but I realize now that I didn't. I worked hard, but I didn't prepare myself well enough to give my teammates true confidence in me.'' [...] "I always worked hard and studied film and all that stuff,'' Carr said. "But I didn't really let people know that I was doing that. I've realized you've got to show that to get respect and confidence. I'm going to go in with the attitude that I'm going to work harder than I ever have before and leave no stone unturned.'' First, I'm unclear on exactly what it was that David Carr ever made look easy. Every time I watched him play, I thought, "That looks like it really hurts," which is the reaction I think most people had, since Carr spent most of his time crawling out from underneath a pile of linebackers. Not much about that looked easy.</div> Notice how the author removed all of *his* questions from the article. He just cherry-picks a few of Carr's responses, and inserts little assumptions around them. I am betting a ton of money that one of the questions went something like, "You seem to have a very cool persona. You have long hair, and have an *everything is fine, everything is easy* attitude toward life in general, you're not stressed out all the time compared to quarterbacks like Tim Couch, who takes everything so seriously that he cries during a game....california guys seem to blah blah blah...". That's when Carr responds to the "easy" comment. Because the author does not also quote his own line of questioning, I really don't think that he is telling the entire truth about the interview. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>I'm also a little confused on how hard Carr worked. He says he worked hard, and then that he didn't prepare himself well enough. And again, he says he worked hard, he just failed to let other people know that he was working hard, which he should have done, because if he had, his teammates would know that he was working hard, just not quite hard enough to be well-prepared. Because that would have ... helped? I don't know. What's clear, though, is that Carr has always been the epitome of cool. He wears a white glove, which makes him similar to Michael Jackson, and Michael Jackson is still cool, right? I bet Carr also is so cool that he wears a red leather jacket with studded shoulders and multiple useless zippers. For Carr's sake, I hope no sort of scandal hits Michael Jackson that would make him uncool. I think it would be a terrible waste if Carr's cool was sacrificed just so he could be useful in any way in the NFL</div> Translating Carr's quotes here: He didn't watch enough film, his teammates recognised that he didn't, and they called him on it. Then, he later turns a new leaf, watches film, but people don't care because he already started off with a bad impression. Since then, he now has the *reputation* of not working hard enough to win. He says that he wants to bury that reputation now that he is wiser. I think that Carr will get backup QB jobs for the rest of his career. Will he still stay motivated to study film?
This blog is a piece of crap. It's part article from some idiot at ESPN and part blog by a nobody at Yahoo. Why should anyone believe a word of it? It's obvious that both authors (I'm using that word very loosely) have it in for David Carr. Is the Michael Jackson crap supposed to be clever? It might be humorous if it was based somewhat on truth or relevance, but any moron can just make stuff up and this moron just did. It just isn't funny. Shutdown Corner? How about Shutup Corner?
The California cool has to go? I recall one "expert" a few yrs back giving Elway the advantage over Marino because Marino was a surly guy from Pittsburgh and Mr Ed was the laid back Cali type.
