With Jake Delhomme on injured reserve, I asked David Carr on Wednesday if he feels like this is HIS now his team.
"No, it’s not," said Carr, a comment clearly made out of respect for Delhomme. "I know I’m the quarterback out there and I’m going to do everything I can to win football games, do what I’ve done my whole life. But that’s something you just don’t hand over. Jake’s been here a long time; he’s done some great things. That’s tough to say."
Carr went on to say that he thinks he will start Sunday against Arizona, although he still walks a little stiff.
"Ah, it'll be all right," Carr said. "It's sore right now and really tight. We're just taking precautions. It just kind of grabs once in a while if I'm at a wrong angle. We're just trying to calm that down."
Carr said the training staff has been doing everything they can to get him back on the field.
"They got suction cups on my back; they've got electrical -- it's like plugging your (TV) camera into my back, is what it feels like. They've got everything; whirlpool, I'm going to the pool after this. They're doing everything they can to keep it loose," he said.
There apparently is no real medical diagnosis for what happened to Carr.
After the game he called it a "mean chiropractor."
"Basically, the vertebrae just got squished," he said. "I went the wrong way, leaned forward too far. It's like if you're stretching your legs and someone about 300 pounds comes and sits on you right at the point where you're not supposed to go any farther. It inflamed the whole thing."
Carr said he's left games before for less painful injuries.
However, he felt like he had to return on Sunday because the theme of the week had been about sticking together.
"I wanted to show (my teammates) by coming back, I wasn't going to give up on them just because my back hurt a little bit," Car said. "That stuff you can fix. We talked so much about just being a team the whole week and sticking together, for me to just put a towel on my head and sit on the sideline for the rest of the game, that wasn't my personality. I didn't want to show that to them in only my second start with these guys. It was definitely important for me to get back out there."