Proudiddy

Yeah, I don't think PJ is an all-pro, and not sure I would feel comfortable with him starting an entire season, but I'm much more confident in him than the majority of the board is and I think he is a helluva backup. Always have. I know the XFL was its own thing, but those guys were professionals and post-collegiate competition and he dominated. He is more than capable.

For them and our defense. It has nothing to do with our offense. And what I have specifically said about PJ is he has had the strongest arm on our roster for the last 20 months until Cam came back (and he still might in regards to ability to throw farther), and that he has been the best available playmaker at the QB position with his legs, and yet, he was sitting behind Teddy and Sam. And I said his one big flaw was his decision making occasionally. Yeah, he threw a pick, but it was still a better misplaced throw than Sam threw all year, if there is such a thing.... it was close. And I'm not gonna knock him for attempting to make a play and being relatively close in a 20-0 game with how our defense is playing. Regardless, are you going to pretend he wasn't throwing at almost a 70% clip and his ball placement has been A-1 outside of that pick? He is making throws that Sam can't make in a wet dream and the offense is moving. These throws to CMC and the timing throws on slants and such are incredible.

And if that's the case, he's still better than Darnold by magnitudes, which is good enough to win.

Good talk, Dr. Phil. I'll let you marinate in your Cam hate, with a side of Proudiddy fandom. Enjoy.

Here you go. Eat up. It was all Darnold. Robby has had the most production he has had in 1 qtr than he's had all season. No sacks so far and run game more productive than it's been all season. It's amazing what having a QB who can move and get the ball out accurately and quickly can do for a struggling OC, WRs and OL. We won in spite of Darnold and lost almost exclusively because of him. This team was held back for weeks because of pride... now Cam is back and has re-energized the entire franchise, and that can't be understated, but simplified - anyone but Darnold would've done better than Darnold. Also, told y'all about PJ. P.S. - We're back.

Uhh, where did my post make allusions to life and death and NOT strictly football? Relax. Enjoy Cam carrying us to victory. Don't be mad, bro, be glad.

Man, aside from his personality and charisma, it can't be stated enough how much energy and life he brings to a team just in giving them the belief that they have a chance to win every game.

My penis is crying

Cam is fuging ELECTRIC!!! fug ALL YOU HATERS. THE KING IS BACK!!!! AND THIS IS WHAT ALL US REAL FANS KNEW HE WOULD DO!

I usually like to rattle off the old "i want our opponents at full strength," but I would be lying... I dont. I actually want all of our upcoming opponents gimpy as hell until Cam is fully up to speed and has the offense down. The defense should be able to carry us for the next few weeks until that happens, and the offense should be able to do just enough to complement it with Sam gone. Then once Cam is full go, idgaf who they trot out there, we are curb stomping their ass.

Was just gonna say, I hate it for the kid and wish him a quick and speedy recovery, but I'm always gonna have a beef with him for the media gifting him ROTY when it belonged to Chinn. Young is super overrated and the media has hyped him up at every turn.

This is what I was thinking... it's because they know he can play, so they're trying to limit his exposure so they don't lose him.

NGL, he made me want to go back to church on that part. It was moving, and boy was he preaching. Beautiful.

Me and you both, brother. Dude is 5 years younger than me, but makes me feel like how I did watching MJ as a kid. And the universe agrees, Cam as a Panther is just perfect and how it should be.

"Whatever Sam Darnold was" "You can't wear that on a date" "Blue Cam Newton jersey" "Showing Tepper and Rhule you're the franchise" *steel chair to the head* That was perfect.

And I also agree and disagree with your agreement and disagreement. Because as we've seen in this latest debacle with Sam, the OL play is also largely dependent on the playmakers behind it and vice versa. It is a wholly symbiotic relationship. As we've seen with Sam, when the QB is indecisive and unsure and holds the ball too long, the OL play suffers and looks much worse than they would otherwise. If runners are not waiting on their blockers or good at reading the holes that open up from blocking, then the OL is going to grade out worse as well. A huge part of our struggles this season have been purely due to the QB play because it has a snowball effect. The NE game was a prime example... we couldn't generate any offense passing, so then we tried to force the run, but the defense could key on it and sell out because they weren't threatened by the pass. Sam was hardly pressured, and the run game stats weren't bad. The OL did a good enough job, there just wasn't enough offense from the QB position to make it matter. This line isn't much different at all from last season's, yet last season's looked much better because Teddy got the ball out quick, which also then opened options up in the run game for Mike Davis in CMC's absence. No one was complaining about the line last year, and we had Trent Scott starting most of the year at LT because Okung was out, and Chris Reed was horrible and started quite a bit. I'm really hoping Cam masks this OL's deficiencies, much like he did for the unit in 2015. I know he doesn't have the same cannon he did, but he still has plenty enough and the athleticism and size is still there to do things that other QBs just can't. He fills a lot of the gaps that have been missing, coincidentally enough, since he's been gone lol.

I got the feeling Okung didn't really care much for playing football anymore other than paying the bills, and I also got the feeling that Rhule and the staff got the same feeling about Okung, which is why they didn't bring him back.

Also, I watched the full presser for context, and it seemed he said this more in regards to having to put Sam on IR, but there were undertones of "we'll have to figure out what to do with him." There were several times that Fitt rattled off what they would do with PJ, Cam and Matt, and then seemed to toss in Sam like an afterthought. He also said at one point "IF Sam comes back," which seemed to indicate more than just an injury issue.

Cam was never ranked dead last in all-time stats among QBs who have thrown at least 160 passes. Nowhere near. So letting him go was always the wrong move. This Darnold experiment is over. Signing Cam should signal that. This move came from Tepper and put the staff on notice that their experiments with their guys are DONE. I think Cam plays the rest of the year out, plays well, and we re-up 2 or 3 years after this one. Both Rhule and Fitt said yesterday that they see Cam has "a lot of really good football left," and it's arguable if Sam has any. Sam is done. He will be lucky to secure a backup spot after his performance this year, even here.

Damn, I heard the Hawks thought about bringing him in, but I didn't know they actually offered him, but makes since bc Cam knew once Wilson was back, it would be his job. Houston is intriguing because he definitely could've taken that job and kept it, but he didn't. It's as if the stars all aligned perfectly for him to come back home. As though it was always meant to be. Because it was. I dont know, I can't quite articulate it, but I think the reason it stuck with me so much was because I had this sneaky, underlying feeling that our time with Cam as our QB just wasn't done. It felt like seeing him in New England was like seeing your friend on vacation (albeit a shitty one. fug new england), but you knew they were coming back home. This is so poetic.

Amen, brother. Same.

Yes, what he has against Cam is that he wasn't his guy. The word is Tepper is the one that made this happen. I'm sure Rhule has no problem acknowledging what an amazing player Cam is; he has and does. What he has issue with is acknowledging he's better than the guys that Rhule tried to make the face of his teams. So, even though he has had to put his ego and pride to the side enough to make this move happen (although I think he did so because his job was hanging in the balance), it's still gonna be tough for him to admit how Cam was the right guy for the job all along and he made not one, but two mistakes trying to find someone to replace him.

Well, he did openly joke after acquiring Gilmore that he was going to knock around and see if anyone had any LTs available.

He does, but I didn't want to be accused of clickbaiting.