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Why Derek Carr's surprise retirement has prompted questions

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METAIRIE, La. -- Kellen Moore didn't have the answers.

Less than three months after the New Orleans Saints named him head coach, Moore found himself confronting a barrage of news conference questions about a player he had never coached -- never even met with in person -- since taking the job. The Saints had announced quarterback Derek Carr's surprise retirement three hours earlier, with the team saying in a statement that Carr experienced pain in his throwing shoulder in late March after his first significant throwing session of the offseason. The Saints said scans determined Carr had a torn right labrum and "significant degenerative changes to his rotator cuff.