A few days after Brock Osweiler became the latest member of the Texans Quarterbacks Alumni Association, he met up in Southern California with the charter member of the group, NFL Network analyst David Carr, at Kurt Warner's benefit touch football game.
Even though their career arcs in Houston had some similarities, the main difference was time. Carr had five years to sink, swim and run for his life behind the Texans' patchwork offensive line. Osweiler had less than a year to absorb an offensive system with which he was not familiar, and that wasn't enough time.
"Gary Kubiak's system in Denver was so different," Carr said.