Bye week assessment

[chuck]

That's a nice narrative but it's not true. McNair has inserted himself again and again into the football side of things invariably with disastrous consequences.

I'll choose one instance for your enjoyment. He extended David Carr (never mind drafted him...) in 2005 and insisted that any new head coach accept Carr as the starter. As a result we were a) stuck with Carr for one more pointless year b) stuck with the dead money after the team inevitably released him c) limited in head coaching candidates to people who would accept a job knowing i) the owner would force his will onto football operations ii) David Carr would be his starting quarterback.

So we end up with palm licker and eight more years of beautiful futility.