joemac

Right....had Watson not gone public with his desire to leave Houston, would any of this have even come to light? I wonder....

Im sure they do. These are billion dollar enterprises with access to whatever they want. Im sure every interested party has hired private investigators, lawyers, analysts and whatever else money can buy to get as much intel as humanly possible on the situation.

So yeah, we should totally just give up on trying to acquire a superstar QB, because they obviously cannot win games all by themselves.

Can we pleasssssseeeeeee try to keep this somewhat civil and out of the Tinderbox for at least 24 hours?

And Bobby Wagner....

Exactly. Im not saying we go out and win the Super Bowl next year if we get Watson, but I damn sure think we would win the South.

THIS. If we can settle the QB position with a superstar QB like Watson, all we need is a couple nice o line additions and we are in business. Especially with the current state of the NFC South.

The thing is....you have absolutely no idea until it happens. And Rhule and Co HAVE done a very good job turning the defense around. Just a few years ago it was a laughing stock that couldn't get off the field to save its life, now we're among the best defenses in the league. Perhaps with the right QB the same thing could happen to the offense. Yall around here act like we've gone 0-33 the last 2 seasons and gotten blown out in every game.

Times have changed in the NFL. Teams are absolutely willing to move high draft picks for actual star players they want. More and more teams are going to start following the Rams GM model - aka "fug Them Picks".

Sounds like its down to us and Washington.....possibly Philly as a dark horse #3. All I know is that things are gonna get REALLLLY interesting in the next couple days. I imagine everybody involved wants to get this settled before the start of free agency.

Well....maybe Rhule is a much better coach with a superstar QB?

Nice. I can respect a man with strong convictions.

Rae Carruth was actually convicted and served prison time. Highly unlikely any of that happens to Watson.

Hes gonna end up playing, and playing well somewhere very soon. Are you just going to quit watching the NFL, period? Or is this just a Panthers thing? Because you kinda have to carry it all the way thru now.

I mean dude come on. He’s right on that. A long time college and NFL head coach and an NFL GM definitely know more football than 99.99% of the randoms online.

Some team is going to trade for Watson very soon and they all know more football than any of us around here. So….yeah.

I don’t think it’s quite as speculative as you think. She’s obviously got a source or 2 somewhere In the NFL

Youngish all time great franchise QBs don’t go on the market very often. We’re in uncharted territory here.

Lotta rumblings out there about the Watson situation heating up. Verge seems to think he’s coming home. Gonna be an interesting next 48 hours or so…also Ben Albright seems to think we’re on the brink of landing him. He pinned a tweet talking about “what betting site has the best odds for Watson going to Carolina”.

Thats for sure. If only we had the 6th pick next year instead of this year. Hell, the way things are going though we will probably have a top 3 pick next year, when there is a much better crop of college QBs set to come out.

What makes everybody so sure that the Broncos are just "a QB away"?

poo....we would absolutely be a contender next year if we signed/drafted a few key o-line guys and obtained a QB the caliber of Wilson. O-line and QB are the only glaring holes on the roster, however those are just the 2 most important things.

Yes, but they are not at all the same situations. Wilson is a choir boy and Watson is a sex pest, with many legal hurdles ahead of him. If everything were the same, I could see a similar deal for Watson, however things are not the same and Watson is going to be had for a discount.

Sounds about right to me. And as the poster above said - Sam almost certainly has to be part of said trade as well.