My beloved 49ers traded Shaun Hill to the Lions for a 2011 draft pick. I can live with the picks, I mean, who doesn’t want more picks? I’m just having a hard time understanding why David Carr is a better answer for this team when we still don’t know:
1. If Alex Smith can play in the NFL
2. If Alex Smith can succeed in the NFL
3. If the 49ers offense can thrive under Alex Smith
or
4. If David Carr can still play
In case we forgot, David Carr set the record–though it wasn’t all his fault–for being sacked the most times in a season when he came out and went to Houston to stand behind a sucky offensive line. Now that he’s spent most of his career on his backside–on the bench or the turf–why would the 49ers take him on when they are not completely stable?
I can see a much better team taking Carr and saying, “We can do something with this guy”, but for the 49ers to have such a tenuous QB situation to take a guy who’s spent most of his career getting sacked makes no sense to me at all.
Now, do I hope Carr can do something in San Francisco? Yes! Maybe he learned from all those crappy years in Houston. Maybe he’s better than Alex Smith. Maybe someone sprinkled some pixie dust on him and now he can throw the ball 80 yards in the air. That would be nice, but I’m not holding my breath.
This just seems like a huge gamble considering how “up and down” the 49er offense was last season. I know Mike Singletary isn’t playing around, but he might kill one of these QBs if they can’t deliver.
This could get ugly really fast and the 49ers will be out of options.
Ouch!
