"Get him the F out of here": Ex-Saints WR Michael Thomas insinuates Derek Carr threw a hospital ball after brutal Chris Olave concussion

Chris Olave and the New Orleans Saints scored a combined 91 points in the first two games of the 2024 season. However, things have since gone downhill. They lost their next six games, before showing up in Week 9 to face the Carolina Panthers.

The Panthers have won just one game so far and heading into the game, the Saints were favored to win and end their losing streak. But in the first quarter, disaster struck as wide receiver Chris Olave took a brutal hit to the head while trying to catch a ball thrown by Derek Carr.

Carr's pass was too high for him to catch, and if an incompletion wasn't enough, Olave lay motionless on the gridiron for some time before being taken away on a stretcher.

Former Saints WR Michael Thomas took to X to post a series of reactions where he went off on Carr. Thomas said that he was too scared of the pressure and just threw the ball away before ensuring Olave was in position to catch it and called for his benching.

The Saints soon announced that Chris Olave had been ruled out for the remainder of the game due to a concussion.

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Michael Thomas and Derek Carr's feud explained

This is not the first time that the WR has been critical of the QB he used to play with while he was still with the Saints. In March, earlier this year, the Saints had released him and he has remained a free agent ever since.

During last year's game against the Detroit Lions, Thomas wrote cryptic social media posts targeting Carr. He said that during the game, a wideout was open but Carr threw a pass that was picked off. He wrote, "your eyes don’t work you get people hurt it’s no mystery."

Thomas also blamed him for his seasoning-ending injury and alleged that he was "set up by a bad ball" from Carr in Week 10. He claimed that were it not for the Carr-caused injury, he would've recorded 1,000 yards.

But Derek Carr in a later interview claimed that whenever he was criticized by Thomas, he would call him and talk to him about it.

"I called him right away and said, 'What are you doing?' You know? That’s how I am, and I don’t need to get into more of that, because you’ve got people out there, I’m getting tagged in things, 'Well, if you had a problem, you should have called him.' Well, I did. I am a man, and I handled it man to man."

He also said that they would always end their conversations on good terms. Will a similar thing happen this time as well?