MillionDollarCam

Here’s the kicker… why pay Darnold $9M when you can pay Trubisky $3M? No one is going to want Darnold even at $9M unless a second or third is attached to him. Back up QB’s don’t make $9M a year…

Not saying this will be an easy win, after all, it’s a west coast road trip… but… Vegas has injuries all over their roster. We need to take advantage and put together a nice string of wins here. Our division is starting to tighten up.

Why do people want to keep Darnold? With the way practice squad’s are setup now there is absolutely no reason to keep more than two QB’s on the roster (as soon as Cam is up to speed Matt Barkley will be cut). Draft a QB that can learn under Cam, get rid of Darnold, and let’s close the book on him. Keeping him does nothing for Darnold or the Panthers. In fact, keeping Darnold prohibits the Panthers from planning for the future.

Projected Lines coming in hot. Per those in the know, KK was practicing face-off’s in practice this morning and either Stepan or Lorentz will be the healthy extra. Svech - Aho - Jarvis Turbo - Trocheck - Necas Nino - Staal - Fast Martinook - Kotkaniemi - Stepan/Lorentz Slavin - Bear Skjei - DeAngelo Smith - Cole Raanta Andersen Injured: Pesce

The only and absolutely only reason we should give up more draft capital in order to get rid of Darnold is if Reddick, Jackson, Gilmore, and Cam approach the front office and indicate that they want to stay with the team and that they’d be willing to take team friendly deals to do so. We’d need the extra $18M to keep all four of the players above. Otherwise Jackson or Gilmore will be gone and at that point you cut Darnold and eat the $18M. There’s absolutely no way you keep him on the roster, he was brought in to be the starter or at the very least compete for the starting job. With Cam supplanting him, his time here is done and a rookie QB should be in order as they would gain a lot from being under Cam’s wing. Gilmore, Reddick, Jackson, Cam, and Luvu are the only guys that are really must haves in my opinion. It would be nice to keep DaQuan Jones, Juston Burris, Brandon Zylstra, Marquise Haynes, Jermaine Carter, and Kenny Robinson but they are replaceable if it comes down the issue with cap space.

What’s funny is in the postgame interview that’s what he said he tried to do… he just obviously did it very, very, very poorly.

Well for starters I don’t think we should have gotten rid of Cam… if we don’t get rid of him then we probably aren’t having this discussion. Knowing that we did ultimately get rid of Cam, I personally wanted Trubisky on a one year deal. I guess kudos to the staff for trying to find a replacement but I’m not too thrilled about giving up draft capital for a player who won’t be a part of our future going forward. I think Matt Nagy is a QB killer and would have liked to seen Trubisky in a different offense. I’d take Trubisky on a 1yr./$2.5M deal over trading assets away for Sam Darnold (and then picking up his 5th year option). Both are risks but one risk doesn’t have the same repercussions as the other risk. I guess on the bright side Darnold helped us get Cam back. I’m not entirely sure Trubisky would have been bad enough for that to happen.

The Rams look like trash tonight and they have the Packers next week… implosion incoming?

A Rams win makes it difficult for the 49ers to potentially make a run. A win tonight by San Fran and the 49ers could find themselves at 9 wins with with wins over Jacksonville, Minnesota, Atlanta, Seattle, and Houston. I think it’s in the best interest of the Panthers that the Rams win.

Really could use some help from the Rams tonight… San Francisco would be 4-5 with a win tonight and they have outstanding games against the Jaguars, Vikings, Seahawks, Falcons, and Texans… all winnable games… winning those games would put them at nine wins.

Is Jalen Ramsey pissed that his coach isn’t allowing him to play press man or is he pissed that he’s getting that ass taken out back behind the shed???

Nice article on the current makeup of our roster. For those that aren’t aware, each team is provided with eight international player slots, players on green cards do not take up an international player slot. The current makeup is as follows: Adam Armour (USA), Brandt Bronico (USA), Christian Fuchs (Austria - Green Card), Sergio Ruiz (Spain - Intl. Slot), Riley McGree (Australia - Intl. Slot), Jan Sobocinski (Poland - Intl. Slot), Guzman Corujo (Uruguay - Intl. Slot), and Jordy Alcivar (Ecuador - Intl. Slot) Five of Charlotte’s eight players currently occupy an international player slot. The good news is we have acquired two additional international player slots to bring our total to ten. That means that we have currently used five of our ten international player slots but we could see some of the slots open back up with a few of the above players in the process of obtaining green cards. Charlotte can still acquire three designated players (Alcivar may become one of them, it’s undecided) and they also have the expansion draft and MLS Super Draft coming up. The total roster is comprised of up to 30 players and with five players potentially being added during the expansion draft and an additional three players added in the SuperDraft, we’ll be well on our way to a full roster shortly.

I’m gonna be honest, the best KK has looked so far this year was on the fourth line with Stepan and Marty.

I still don’t think there’s been a solid argument for Cam not getting 100% of the snaps if he’s physically ready. Save Joe Brady calling a play that Cam doesn’t have down yet there is no reason why he should come off the field. I stated in another thread that you either believe that Cam can make all the throws that P.J. made this past week which ultimately lends credence to Cam getting all the snaps or you believe that P.J. will throw a better ball than Cam right now. They may script 30 or so plays to begin with and then give Cam a list of additional plays that they want him to know for certain situations… it’s not like he needs to learn the whole playbook this week. Ultimately it should come down to who gives you the best chance to win and Cam can simply do things that P.J. can’t.

That’s true… tbh I say I’d hate but then when it happened I’d be the one screaming my ass off.

I actually would hate this to be honest. I love that he’s back and all the nostalgia that comes with it but like he said, he’s here to win. It will start to feel more like the ‘retirement party’ if we start to pull stunts like this.

I didn’t say that it was ALL due to the fans but I did ask for an example similar to this one (in any sport), can you provide an example? We could have easily gone after RGIII or Blake Bortles but we came back to Cam.

Lyon looked solid and Leivo played decent, thankful for their service but excited to see what a fully healthy Canes lineup can do. The real thing here is…. who sits? I’m not sure if it will be a popular opinion but I’d probably sit KK. Svech - Aho - Jarvis Turbo - Trocheck - Necas Nino - Staal - Fast Lorentz - Stepan - Marty

This is an interesting point. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fanbase clamor for a particular player so much and actually get that particular player. This isn’t some NFL Draft situation where the fanbase universally agrees that they want such and such. This was a situation where an NFL franchise got rid of a player and the fanbase became so upset with the direction of the team that they begged to bring back the outcasted player. I can’t think of a situation where that has happened before.

People who aren’t giving him credit for the defense are foolish. Rhule and Snow have this defense playing at a level that Carolina fans have only seen a few times. The issue I have again is the process… so we missed out on Stafford; that’s not anyone’s fault. Watson likes tuggies so it was a no go; once again not anyone’s fault. I am in the same boat and don’t like Fields so no argument from me there. What wasn’t the right move is compounding the Bridgewater mistake by bringing on Darnold.

I already gave him credit for the defense… Brown, Chinn, Reddick, and Horn are all solid players and Snow has them playing at an elite level. Gilmore on the other hand was a Fitterer move as all the trades have been at his discretion. I think the issue here is that Igo basically stated that Tepper gave Rhule an ultimatum in regards to Cam’s return… it was at the point where Tepper wouldn’t let Gilmore have the number one jersey because it was already on his mind at that point. I actually think Rhule is a brilliant football mind and knows the X’s and O’s as good as anyone, with that said, one person shouldn’t be responsible for total control of a football team. Fans of Carolina sports should know this… MJ ruined Hornets basketball for years because he wouldn’t listen to anyone. Finally Kupchak talked some sense into him. I think Rhule will have success but it’s because of him taking a step back and letting our GM be the GM.

I’ll add this well since it won’t let me edit my original post. The guy who was the director of college scouting for the Seahawks and identified Russell Wilson in the third round probably knows more about identifying talent than the college coach who’s best QB’s have been P.J. Walker and Charlie Brewer.

You can’t be serious… giving full control to a college coach has never worked… Greg Schiano, Doug Marrone, Chip Kelly, Bill O’Brien, and now Rhule. Harbaugh was the only coach who had any success and his players ran him off because he was a dick. And it’s not just the QB position, it’s hard to evaluate every position, hell it took this staff just as long to find a kicker as it did to realize they made a mistake in releasing Cam. Using one example of Brady doesn’t make your case any stronger. The big issue here is that the answer truly was on the roster but now we are paying $40M more than we needed to in order to find out what we knew all along. Not to mention they didn’t even give Cam a chance to compete… it was a new coaching staff that was egotistical and wanted full control and knew they wouldn’t have full control as long as Cam was the QB because of his presence. Now you have everyone on here asking how we are going to keep Cam, Reddick, Gilmore, and Jackson… well we could have if we weren’t paying $40M to Rhule’s QB’s. Bottom line is Matt Rhule knows football, where he’s struggled so far is player evaluation and he was on the verge of getting himself fired until Tepper made him reach out to Cam.

Barnidge’s “pro wrestling” career was better than his NFL career… that’s saying something.