The Saints’ offensive struggles caught up to quarterback Derek Carr’s emotions when he blew up on some of his teammates after Thursday night’s 31-24 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The veteran addressed his frustrations following the game and was asked what caused his outburst.
“The slow start,” Carr said, via NFL.com. “I have been showing my emotions a little too much on my sleeve. I have got to kind of chill out and that’s me holding myself accountable because that’s not going to help anything. Just trying to be a calming influence in those moments, especially during moments of heightened frustration — I can be that presence to calm everybody down.”
New Orleans currently has a 3-4 record after Week 7, and the game showed the inability of the play-caller to be on the same page as his offense and there were just too many empty possessions.
Carr also was spotted yelling at receiver Chris Olave down the field.
Derek Carr bombing it 10 yards out of bounds…
then losing his mind the WR didn’t run his route into the bench to catch it is pure comedy pic.twitter.com/8uCa8u40EY
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) October 20, 2023
“I wasn’t talking to Chris, like the past two weeks I was just talking in general,” Carr added. “There were some things that happened today that led to some pretty big negative plays that should never have happened and I think that’s where my frustration came from.”
Carr took accountability as he typically does.
“I’m going to do everything in my power to fix it, and I know our guys will do everything in their power,” Carr said. “It’s not malicious or coming from a bad place. It sucks right now. We are finding everything that sucks right now. We are going to point it out and call it out and work on that to get better as leaders — that’s our job whether it’s really good or really bad.”
“I tell guys all the time we’re not playing the scoreboard, we’re playing against our standard. We have to make sure, not only throughout the week we have to meet that standard, but on gameday, we have to meet that standard. I’m okay if a guy gets beat or if they make a play, they’re going to make plays, but there are some things in football that are completely controllable that I think we can do better.”
[NFL.com]
