PNW_PantherMan

Outside of playoff wins its up there for me. I'm trying to think of another regular season moment that's meant that much as a fan. Maybe its too soon to tell, but that hit pretty hard for me yesterday.

What a day to be a Panther fan. Feels incredible to see Cam out there again.

And they were willing to pay draft picks to risk the whole season on him? That's just careless.

I wonder if Cam would have accepted an extension equal to what Teddy was paid? If so, you can pretty much blame Rhule and company for the departure. I get the feeling that Rhule didn't want to deal with Cam's presence. He wanted to reboot the whole locker room. Maybe they thought he wasn't going to be healthy again. That's the angle they played. That they couldn't take the risk. But they'll risk giving 60 million dollars to a backup QB. Or trade multiple draft picks to risk the whole season on a draft bust turning it around. It's not very consistent with the explanation we were given. Rhule failed to replace Cam and I think that Cam's return is Tepper taking the keys away.

Emergency QB on this team? So 2nd string?

Every DC in the league seems to know it, so how hard could it be to learn?

I think there's a chance Robby turns it around with a better QB. At least Cam has DJ.

Lets see how he does with Cam as his QB

Sam seems like a terrible backup because all he does is make mistakes. I'd rather have a boring, safer veteran on the bench.

I never saw this coming. What a turn of events. Welcome back Cam.

Glad to have Cam back. This is exciting.

They'd never swallow their pride enough to do it, but I wouldn't mind seeing Cam come back at this point. Who knows if he would even want to.

He's going on IR with a broken heart.

You do you, but the older I get the more I can appreciate players on other teams. Panthers will always be #1 but after 20+ years of this poo it helps to appreciate good players. I was afraid Fields would be a bust, so I didn't want us to take him. He's inconsistent with his accuracy, but when he's accurate he drops a dime. He has star potential.

What a game. Great effort by Fields.

Seemed questionable to burn the last timeout to ice the kicker. there's still 26 seconds left.

He's raw, but he's got one thing Darnold doesn't have. Potential.

I agree nobody could be successful with the way Darnold is playing. A huge part of this style of offense is hitting receivers on 10-20 yard patterns. Darnold can't read the field, so he can't complete anything other than a check down route. Whether it's a short hitch by DJ or a back coming out of the backfield. He can't seem to find anyone else on any other route. The only other pass he throws is a prayer downfield, regardless of the coverage. He's very inaccurate down the field as well. It's incredibly difficult to tell if the offensive scheme is any good, because Darnold isn't capable of running it. Even though Teddy wasn't elevated to stardom, he put up some of the best numbers of his career in the same system. We had red zone problems, but we didn't have a problem moving the ball. That said, I've lost faith in Matt Rhule and I think we need to clean house.

Yep and if you rewind that further, it would have been better to roll with Cam, Kyle Allen, or Taylor Heineke (or even Will f'n Grier) than signing Teddy to a 60 million dollar contract. Certainly wouldn't have to pay that much to win 5 games. Any of those guys could have done that. This has been one error compounding after another. And I'm almost certain they're about to compound it again with another one to replace Darnold.

i think we're still on the hook for a large portion of that even with a trade. Perhaps all of it. It depends on how the 5th year option is structured. I'm guessing its guaranteed.

Nope. I'm going to disagree with this. Jerry wanting his kids to be involved ran Bill Polian out of the organization after 96. He went on to build a very competent team with the Colts.

To be fair they have game 5 of the World Series in town tonight. Would you really go to the Falcons game instead of that?

If anything, Sam would be a decent backup.

We ran a R2P2 offense today if I've ever seen one.

Probably because context is a thing. Brady is the best to ever play QB. Sam has never proven anything.