LinvilleGorge

I really, really wish you had been. Honestly, we would've beat the Pats if we'd benched Darnold at halftime like I honestly anticipated happening.

No, Darnold is done. Cam will be the starter next week and moving forward.

I tried to tell y'all that Darnold was just THAT bad. But noooooo... That limited playbook we had installed for Cam today? I honestly don't think the playbook we'd whittled Darnold down to was much thicker.

Says the guy who has now pulled a full 180. Everyone was supposed to be behind Darnold and the Panthers no matter what. All positivity all the time. Sam goes full meltdown and you disappear just to come crawling out throwing shade at people who are happy Cam is back. Triggered? Yeah, you are.

Agreed. Even the most storied franchises only have a few NFL MVPs.

Uh oh... Mr. Positivity himself comes along and tells on himself. Nah man, we ain't coming over to your house.

@Catsfan69 your feelings don't matter. Go listen to Ricky Proehl (our WR coach at the time) talk about it. He was in the locker room. He was Smitty's position coach. There might not be a better direct source than that and he openly discussed it relatively recently.

Might wanna go listen to Ricky Proehl talk about that one. He pretty much outright admitted that Smitty was causing a toxic locker room.

Likely confirms the intention was always to ultimately retire Cam's number IMO.

Gus Johnson just makes watching college football more fun. I always despised Dick Vitale. The guy just came across as thinking that he and his commentary were bigger then the game. But the worst announcer of all time might be Bill Walton. What a complete pompous fuging ass. No one cares about your trips to the desert or Grateful Dead concerts or whatever the fug else you're barely coherently rambling on about. We're trying to watch a fuging college basketball game and all you're doing is acting like the game is an annoying distraction from you telling your completely unrelated and irrelevant stories. Go fug yourself. I hate the guy on a personal level because of this poo. It's just blatantly apparent at how arrogant and self centric he is. Well, that was a pretty solid rant.

We already have this thread.

Can't wait that long. Going fishing. I should be caught up on DVR by the start of the 2nd half anyway.

Of course we are. We've seen enough. We're done with Sam Darnold.

When does the inactive list come out? If Cam is inactive I'm going fishing and watching on DVR later.

Yep. Sam seems like a legit good dude. He can accomplish great things with the money that football has provided him, but he's not going to accomplish great things on the football field.

I'm honestly not sure if Sam Darnold ever makes another NFL active roster.

Watch the previous two years if you wanna see him operating more as a pure passer.

Absolutely absurd. You KNOW a defensive player would've been fined for trying to twist a QB's foot off.

Here's to hoping he gets all $10M!

This is what I like about Howell. So many questions have been answered. He checks the physical boxes. Would it be nice if he was taller? Sure. But he has the build. He has the arm. No, he doesn't have Elway's arm but his arm is good even at the NFL level. How does he respond when his team is outmatched? Check. How does he respond when his receivers are dropping balls? Check. How does he respond when his OL can't provide even minimal protection? Check. How does he respond when trailing? Check. Trailing big? Check. In crunch time in close games? Check. When the run game is struggling? Check. When he has to carry the entire offense? Check.

I wish the deal would've gotten made on Monday so Cam could've been ready to go tomorrow.

X-rays negative. Howell will keep on Cam'ing this team to competitiveness.

Cam floated Shula for five years. He hasn't sniffed an OC job since. I'd call that "saving".

That was probably about the time the "Let's go Pats!" chants got going as the Panthers fans hit the doors leaving us outnumbered 5:1 vs. Pats fans.

I'm hearing whispers that Sam Howell broke his collarbone on the final play of the game last night where the OL blocked literally no one. I have to point out the specific play since the OL blocking no one happened on most of the plays last night.