Growl

I wouldn’t be so quick to let Gilmore walk even if they resign Jackson

alright so here’s the recap: the argument in favor of cutting Cam revolved around the reality that his injury may prevent him from being good enough to win you a super bowl, but that he was still too good a player to let you “tank.” Tanking of course being defined not as intentionally losing football games, but as not artificially inflating your W/L record for that season by throwing frivolous money and draft capital around for no reason and simply accepting where you are at in your franchises development so when Cam was cut, from that perspective, it wasn’t the wrong move, even if failing to prepare for it had forced you into a position where you were relying on luck however, the teams moves from there clashed with the above outlook they immediately went out and signed a journeyman QB to a big deal (and a 3rd round comp) to ensure they wouldn’t be getting a top 5 pick (though all things considered, they got lucky picking 8 and would’ve been even higher if the lions weren’t so mindnumbingly trash) and when that predictably went like a bunch of laymen told the paid professionals it would-they did the exact same thing all over again, except this time paying more, including a 2nd round pick. to top it off, they had Fields fall to them but by that point had convinced themselves all the talking points they had fed to the media to talk up Darnold were actually true and not just propaganda it’s remarkable how bad they are at this anyways, yeah, back at square 1. If you’re not going to “tank” then you ride it out with Cam. he should be here until you get a 1st round rookie QB. The Watson ship sailed when you decided to wait until he was clean and you were in a bidding war with 2/3 of the League for him (spoilers)

What they should’ve done is prepare for Cam’s departure before it was necessary but looking likely it wasn’t a surprise when Cam went out there and got hurt again his final season. we knew it was a good QB class well in advance. we had people on this board, yes, me, but many others as well saying to look ahead but they didnt and then they didn’t again when Bridgewaters failure was predictable and then they didn’t again when Darnolds failure was inevitable so forgive me if I have a bigger bone to pick with the team than most may feel proportionate

He should be on the team until a 1st round rookie QB is in house

“According to Elias Sports Bureau data, Newton is 959 passing yards and 194 rushing yards from becoming the first player in NFL history to reach the 30K-5K club for a single team -- although Russell Wilson needs just 426 rushing yards to reach the milestone with the Seattle Seahawks.”

Already bought a ticket.

you shut your mouth

if they embarrass Cam a second time there’s going to be blood in the streets

Do it

Tepper has talked about a desire to “change the culture” since the day he landed the reality is that the Panthers culture was always very good but he did it anyways, setting out to raze every aspect of the previous regime and replace it with things that could be a testament to Dave and his good work now the team has no culture, they’re rudderless, chasing every fart buzzword like “analytics” while playing on a crappy grass turf that everyone hates because it saves Dave a few bucks

okay well the salesman is going to have a whole lot of terms when he’s got two dozen other people each trying to outdo each other’s offer

waiting until everything is peachy keen with Watson and the Texans have 20 different suitors bidding for him would be only the latest mega blunder at the position the organization has made do it now or don’t bother

It wasn’t a prediction. It was common sense. sam darnold had been the leagues literal worst QB for three seasons. We had a college head coach who hadn’t demonstrated an ability to evaluate personnel, and hired a general manager because he could look at rhule and say “yes sir” and at tepper and say “wow how about that Microsoft huh” instead of a GM who could work with authority over rhule and diminish his weaknesses to allow his strengths to shine more prominently. there was never anything scandalous about it. Only scandalous people who can’t hear criticism.

I tried so hard to prepare all of you for this.

whatever I’m not gonna sit around and watch this team stockpile a bunch of camp bodies

so they didn’t even get a future pick out of it lol

oh wow well this changes things, as long as we’re stacking meaningful picks

it feels like “look all darnold cost us was one pick” was the primary objective of the draft

they traded down giving up a 4 and a 5 to get two threes and then traded said three to get a 4 and a 5

I’ve liked this guy

they traded the high one to move up three spots to take the tackle

I bet you’re wrong

he listed about half a dozen different names under the guise of “its okay guys they’ve still got their eyes on” right before said player went off the board

lol If you’ve been following John Ellis’ page you’ll know exactly how the 2nd round out played out for them

lol so they gave Cleveland a 4 to get that deal done Like lol what are they getting in return for helping these teams secure players they want