![]() ![]() “He didn’t take it too great, obviously,” Carr said with a chuckle. Carr was soon knocking at the door of Dennis Allen, telling his head coach he was considering walking away from the sport before ever participating in a single padded practice. ![]() “I’m thinking, ‘I’ve dreamed of being an NFL quarterback my whole life, so chill out.’”īut chilling was easier said than done for the restless rookie. “The thought was, ‘You need to stop playing football and preach.’”Ĭarr didn’t hesitate to speak back at his inner voice. “In my heart, I’d never had this feeling where I was so overcome with my thoughts that I was like, ‘I can’t do anything right now,’” Carr said as he sat at a table in the lounge of an East Bay hotel. A guy about to be handed the keys to an NFL offense as a rookie was looking for something more that he didn’t completely understand. As he lifted weights in the makeshift field house behind the Napa Valley Marriott, nothing could soothe his soul. Although he didn’t know it yet, the second-round pick was about to be anointed a rookie NFL starter because of that readiness that was all too apparent.Īnd just as suddenly as that dream was about to begin, the pang in Carr’s gut was growing more undeniable. He was a prodigy who was watching game film, and comprehending it, by age 10. Being an NFL quarterback is all Derek Carr ever dreamed about. ![]()
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