Quincy Carter Sounds Off

The video is a couple of weeks old, but it’s worth a mention. Former Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter, in a videotaped interview with DFWReporting.com, lamented the fact that his NFL career ended in a cloud of marijuana smoke. He accuses owner Jerry Jones of pulling a “billionaire power play” for releasing Carter due to a failed drug test and blaming it on poor performance. “When you got a quarterback who’s . . . failing drug tests, that would weigh heavy on me if I was a billionaire owner and I owned the Dallas Cowboys, I would have to make some business decisions, too,” Carter said. “Now how he went about it was just -- that was bad. . . . You just don’t do people like that and just leave them in the dust like that.” Carter thinks that if he had never failed the drug test, he’d still be a member of the team. “Tony Romo wouldn’t even be playing for the Cowboys right now,” Carter said. And Carter continues to believe that he was wronged, even though the grievance challenging his termination failed. He also makes some powerful -- but unsupported -- allegations regarding the outcome of his grievance. "[T]he main reason I think I lost it [is] because the NFLPA weren’t [sic] able to come up with the actual press conference where Jerry Jones said he is not releasing me because of my play,” Carter said. “I think honestly that he had the NFL . . . lose those tapes. That’s how much power -- and I know because how close I was to him and how much I got into . . . being a Dallas Cowboy, I know how much power he has within the whole NFL.” (Um, Quincy . . . do you mean this press conference?) Even if Carter is right, was it the power of Jerry Jones that kept Carter out of the NFL for the past five years? Let’s face it -- if Carter was good enough to continue to be the starting quarterback of the Cowboys for the past five years, and to hold off Tony Romo from taking the job in the process, wouldn’t Carter be playing for some team other than his current collection of indoor-league slapdicks? Of course, Quincy’s ongoing affinity for his Mexican friend named Mary Jane might have been an impediment. He essentially admitted that he continues to have a problem with pot during part two of the interview. And he was arrested again the day before part one of the interview was posted. And yet he still holds out hope that an NFL team “might come calling.” Quincy, you need to let it go. You’re now even less relevant to the NFL than Freddie Mitchell. And that’s saying something.