Against the New York Giants on Monday Night Football, he completed 25 out of 40 passes for a career-high 321 yards, including a touchdown pass and a touchdown run. So I’ve surrendered to this program. Said Trujillo: “Quincy was emotional and said ‘This weekend was so freeing for me. They just can’t fight it. [3], Struggling with his baseball career, Carter opted to return to play college football in 1998, but made the highly publicized decision to sign with the University of Georgia instead of Georgia Tech, who officially contested the move but was still overruled by the NCAA.[4]. Carter was 23-8 as the starting quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs and declared for the NFL Draft after his junior season. “Each and every day I get up in the morning, it has to be the same thing. Carter says he has two main focuses these days: His kids and his recovery. This week, Carter celebrated “his most fulfilling” stretch of being drug-free and sober in at least a dozen years. When Carter had one last shot to make an NFL team in 2008 with the Miami Dolphins, it was Henderson who vouched for him to Bill Parcells, who was the Dolphins vice president of operations. “We (Carter and Thomas “Hollywood" Henderson, long-time sponsor and mentor) thought it would help other people to hear my story,” Carter said. He is currently training youth at his quarterback school. He was released in lieu of a $500 bond paid by Dallas sports talk-show host and journalist, Randy Galloway.[29][30]. Now, at 42 years old, Carter has had time to reflect and learn about himself. Carter had an impressive sophomore season while leading a young team, posting 216 out of 380 completions, 2,713 passing yards (school record for a sophomore), 17 passing touchdowns, 5 rushing touchdowns, and 6 interceptions, directing the offense to 416 yards per-game (second in the SEC). On May 1, 2008 Carter signed with the Arena Football League's Kansas City Brigade. Some are surprised to learn that the person helping them used to play quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. At first, Trujillo thought maybe it was a hoax. “That first game in Appleton, Wisconsin, when it was negative four degrees wind chill, when I was playing for the single-A Rockford Cubbies,” Carter said. [2], In 1996, with the Gulf Coast Cubs of the rookie league, he hit .215 and played in 55 games. All rights reserved. But I played at Georgia, so I know how it is: We want another one of those 1980 national championships like yesterday. “Not only that, it would bring more responsibility to me.”. “We might could put some things together and make a run this year. He also completed the third longest streak in SEC history after throwing 170 consecutive passes without an interception. Through the first three games of the season he was the third ranked passer, with a rating of 124.3, throwing for 18 touchdown passes, but he was suspended indefinitely from the team in late May for missing team meetings. [25] Carter was arrested again on June 18, for failing to pay his bondsman after his May 10 arrest. Carter’s latest comeback is his greatest to date. He understood it. “Some of the things were a little hurtful, but at the same time, there are more great people at the University of Georgia—then there were some of those people,” Carter said. Drugs and alcohol will become a distant memory for you if you really live by this AA (Alcoholic Anonymous) book, and really do the things it tells you to do, as well as listen to your sponsors. [16] On the subject of being released, Carter remarked, "This is a joke... an insult." 6-ranked LSU), Kirby is one of the guys that stood up in the locker room and said ‘We’ve got our quarterback. There he is, he got his team in the playoffs, he's the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, he's playing good, he's improving, he can get out of trouble, he's pretty smart, he can make almost every throw -- and it's just, some people just can’t fight the pressure to succeed. Carter says he has also been in touch with UGA about finishing his college degree. Former UGA quarterback Quincy Carter was overwhelmed by the positive reaction from former teammates and Bulldog fans after he tweeted out this week that he hit the six-month mark for being “clean and sober.”, “That love I got … it touched my heart, it really did,” Carter told DawgNation. Of course, when you’re a freshman, you’ve got to earn your stripes on your own. To do so, you must be a registered user on the DawgNation forum. [28], On December 15, 2006, Carter was arrested in Irving, Texas on possession of marijuana charges. “He stumbled and fumbled for years after that (letdown).”. Last spring, Carter became very interested in working as a quarterback trainer with high school and middle school kids. While grateful that he's living life and not simply counting days, the Decatur native understands that the worst times of his life are still very recent. After spending two years away from football, he won the starting quarterback job in a contested battle over future University of Oklahoma starter Nate Hybl, among others. “I finally got to the point where I was sick and tired of being sick and tired,” declared Carter. Carter, 42, has quite a story to tell: He was a three-year starter for UGA at quarterback, and was named SEC Freshman of the Year in 1998. In the 2000 Outback Bowl 28-25 overtime win against Purdue University, he threw for 243 yards and one touchdown on 20-of-33 passing, while running for 21 yards and a score to lead the Bulldogs to the biggest come-from-behind victory in school history. As a junior, he displayed inconsistency, which included a 5 interception game on 10-of-24 passing against the University of South Carolina. He finished his NFL career with 542 out of 960 completions for 6,337 yards, 32 touchdown passes, 518 rushing yards, 3 touchdown runs and 37 interceptions, for a passer efficiency rating of 71.7. [14] He ended up starting three games (winning two) after Pennington injured his rotator cuff, and if not for his performance, the team would not have made the playoffs. I couldn’t get a better job,” Carter said. Carter has a son named Quincy Carter, Jr. who attends Southwest DeKalb High School. We’ve just got to be patient as a program. When Carter went to the airport to fly back to Texas, he called his new-found friend in tears. You really cared about getting to know me, and teaching me about how to run quarterback camps. © 2020 Verizon Media. Don't miss breaking news!Sign up for the DawgNation Newsletter! Carter completed 90 out of 176 attempts for 1,072 yards, 5 touchdowns, 45 carries for 150 yards and 7 interceptions. He received SEC Offensive Player of the Week honors after registering 349 passing yards and a touchdown on 26-of-41 completions against the University of Mississippi. He also completed more than 20 passes in 3 straight games, which was the longest stretch by a Cowboy since Aikman had a streak of 5 games in 1996. In the 1998 Peach Bowl against the University of Virginia, he passed for 222 yards, 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions to lead Georgia from a 21-0 deficit to a 35-33 victory. Before Carter reported to the Bulldogs, he was a high draft pick by the Chicago Cubs and played three years of minor-league baseball. [5] He had a record setting season, establishing school freshman marks for passing yards (2,484), touchdowns (12), attempts (290) and completions (176), while tallying 300 passing yards or more in 4 games. “I’ve surrendered to my recovery,” Carter said in an interview on the Dawg Days podcast from UGASports.com. Regrets, though, are something that Quincy Carter is learning to leave behind. Carter says he is embarrassed it has been that long, but the streak will end shortly as he plans to attend April’s G-Day, the spring scrimmage for the Bulldogs. Outside the NFL, he also was a member of the Bossier–Shreveport Battle Wings, Kansas City Brigade and Abilene Ruff Riders. He played baseball in the minor league system of the Chicago […] and that’s all you can ask of somebody who is fighting a disease that is personal, is physical, is consequential, and is nasty. “The disease of alcoholism and drug addiction is filthy nasty. Carter became an independent youth football coach in Georgia specializing in training for the quarterback position. “I was a very big weed addict from the age of 16 or 17. But Kirby was a big supporter of mine, and I’ll never forget it.”. It came back positive for marijuana. Against Auburn University, he threw for 351 yards 2 touchowns and 3 interceptions. Carter was thrilled when his former teammate was hired as head coach in December 2015. “Not often does the situation break my heart, but Quincy threw the ball tremendously and he did everything they asked him to do,” Henderson recalled. He'd already flunked two previous tests and would have to be suspended for the first four games of the season. The Jets declared him inactive for the divisional playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 15, announcing that he had left the team to attend to his sick mother, when in reality he had enrolled into a rehabilitation program. Would you like to receive DawgNation news alerts? “I knew then that I better love this right here or I’d be going to college real soon.”. The highlight of the season was Carter leading the Cowboys to a dramatic come from behind win for the second time in three weeks (the other one was against the St. Louis Rams), on his 25th birthday he turned a 13-0 deficit to the Carolina Panthers, into a 14-13 victory by throwing an 80-yard touchdown pass to Joey Galloway with 3:55 minutes left, then a 24-yarder to Antonio Bryant with 56 seconds to go.[9].
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