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Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
https://www.si.com/college/florida/football/florida-gators-anthony-richardson-nfl-draft-billy-napier-positive-projections Arm talent? Check. Richardson uncorked an awe-inspiring, ~80-yard throw at the Manning Passing Academy over the summer. His 11.5-yard average depth of target in 2022 is tied for the fifth-highest among 89 qualifying FBS quarterbacks, per Pro Football Focus. His 18 big-time throws rank tied for No. 38 in the same group, despite his 60th-ranked number of passing attempts. Mobility? Check. He averaged 6.3 yards per rush — 3.56 of which came after contact, per PFF — with nine touchdowns on the ground this year. The Athletic reported over the summer that he runs a 4.4-second 40-yard dash. "I thought [he] made a ton of progress," Napier said. "You know, most importantly I think as a person, comfort with the role, you know, the leadership aspect. And certainly, I thought [he] made a lot of progress when it comes to football intelligence and defensive structure, protections." "[He] did a lot for the Gators, man," Napier praised of Richardson. "Certainly proud of him as a person and the way he went about his business and represented this place." -
It’s both but it’s less the first one. Baker isn’t some scrambling QB you have to prep for. The gameplan for him would likely be the same as Stafford or the other backups they can plug in there. The Rams do a far better job at getting routes run that get the WRs open and Baker made throws. It felt like here we ran predictable plays resulting in a few guys getting open. Not because they can’t get open, but because the routes are so obvious it’s easy for the defender to stay on their hips.
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We’ve been a terrible franchise long before Tepper came around. I can’t think of any franchise in any other sport that hasn’t had back to back winning seasons at least once in their history. Even new franchises. Even the Jags. Only us. You can’t claim Richardson had us running well when we we couldn’t string together two winning seasons in a row in the 20 years or so he owned us.
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Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
No it’s not. At his height and with his arm strength he will have the ability to make throws other QBs on our roster can’t get away with. Dishonest is saying you aren’t interested in a QB and spending 90% of your forum activity boosting a thread about him to the point the only threads that get more attention than the QB you aren’t interested in is the Gameday threads. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
He throws those but that’s not his only quality. I mean throwing hard passes will allow him to make throws other QBs on our roster can’t make. But it’s good you watch tape! -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
Be honest, with a new head coach coming in, if they draft a QB in the first two rounds MC isn’t going to get a fair shake at all. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
Oh my fault. I was agreeing with you. Didn’t mean to make it sound like I was coming at you or anything! -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
The other user made it sound like all he does is run. We actively tried to limit his runs this year, sometimes to our detriment. But our backup QB was hurt all year so they didn’t want to risk him getting hurt too and us having to go with Kitna. So Richardson had two 400 yard passing games this year against Vandy and Tennessee. Will Levis had 0 400 yard passing games. Bryce Young had 1. Stroud had 0. Dugan had 0. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
Because he had so many 100 yard rushing games this year. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
This would be an ideal landing spot for Richardson. I still want Stroud. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
If you want to actually break them down, they aren’t similar players coming out of college. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
I mean I miss Cam as well but Richardson isn’t the personality that Cam was/is. Very different folks in terms of being outspoken. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
I want to cry. This was the #1 target for us and we needed it. We have Rashada coming in as well so it will be a hell of a competition but we still need to pull Leary or Hartman from the portal to hold us over for one season. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
I mean this is what happened with Justin Fields. New regime came in with no ties to him. They chose not to invest in him right away and they wanted to see improvement from him. This off-season now they will build more of the line and work on the defense and make the whole team better but now they know they don’t need to draft a QB. Matt’s contract will keep him here for a couple more years. He’s going to need to show the new regime he can play but the odds aren’t in his favor if we draft a new QB high. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
He took a major step back -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
Not against better competition -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
Ryan Leaf didn’t endear people to him. He was an asshole and gave you no reason to want to root for him. So the leash is shorter and he’s easier to move on from. Richardson is a hard worker and he’s a good kid with a good family around him. If he turns into a bust he’s still a guy who can run out there for trick plays at the AND GOAL portion of the field and then also throw here and there. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
That’s why you watch the tape. Stats can catch your eye and that’s fine but then you need to go look at the plays. If a QB gets 200 yards a game off of screens then it’s not him doing work, it’s relying on receivers to do it. If a guy has a bad completion percent, when you watch the game and you regularly see guys get hit in the hands and not come down with it, that helps explain some of that. And those are the types of balls NFL WRs aren’t going to regularly drop. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
He won plenty of games passing the ball. Stop making stuff up. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
You mean you forget like 3 games before the injury he lead us to 21 points in the fourth quarter in a wild comeback against the Eagles? And how he was competing like almost 70% of his passes that year? Scoring wise we were one of the top offenses in football up until that injury and folks and analysts were talking about Cam being an MVP again. -
Anthony Richardson declares for the draft
Varking replied to Ricky Spanish's topic in Carolina Panthers
Justin Fields just threw the ball 25 times this past week, completed 20 of them for like 250 yards. He ran the ball 6 times. He was super effective. And yeah, one of those runs still went for a 50 yard touchdown run. And he had two completions over 40 yards throwing to guys like Pettis and St Brown. Fields is looking like the answer in Chicago. The only knock on him now is he isn’t finishing games. But look at the talent on that team.