BREAKING NEWS: David Tepper speaks on Cam Newton status with Panthers

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, MHS831 said:

I was referring to the draft---I guess you could add Norwell to the mix if we include undrafted free agents and free agents.  Point being, the OL seems to have not been much of a priority--

Norwell was a Gettleman pickup too.

Check your timelines, dude. Marty was fired in October of 2012, brought back in late July of 2017. Anything between those two dates is either Gettleman (hired January of 2013) or Brandon Beane.

[MHS831]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Norwell was a Gettleman pickup too.

Check your timelines, dude. Marty was fired in October of 2012, brought back in late July of 2017. Anything between those two dates is either Gettleman (hired January of 2013) or Brandon Beane.

I had different years and went with it.  I was at work, interacting with students, and doing this between chats--multi-tasking--just not effectively.

But to the important issue---Gettlemen did more in the few years he was here for our OL than all of Marty's years combined. 

Marty signed a gimpy-legged C that Elway let walk and an Ivy league, undrafted, free agent G.  Then he drafted Little and Daley this year, after Cam is hurt.  A bit reactive--a bit too late if you ask me.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

I had different years and went with it.  I was at work, interacting with students, and doing this between chats--multi-tasking--just not effectively.

It happens.

Sometimes I'd like to change history too

[Icege]

I mean, what isn't a cop-out answer? Walking thru every detail on all of the what if scenarios?

The fact of the matter is that no team is going to give the Panthers anything worth a damn unless they know that Cam is healthy, nor will he start if he has any setbacks.

Let the man fuging recover before you make Cam face his future, holy fug.

If Cam is healthy and all-in, the team keeps him and now has the luxury of rebuilding while Cam gott dayym Newton is the QB. If he isn't, then the team saves $19M. This isn't difficult.

All of these talks about a trade: What do you think the going rate is on a former NFL MVP that changed the most important position in the sport? A 2nd rd? FOH. You don't trade Cam unless you get the farm AND the town gas station.

[MHS831]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

It happens.

Sometimes I'd like to change history too

However, if Gettlemen was the GM for most of the second half of Cam's career here (Marty years 1-3, 8-9) then he tried to surround Cam with Hog Mollies--Marty just didn't.  His comments after drafting Silatolu are downright embarrassing. 

 

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, Icege said:

I mean, what isn't a cop-out answer? Walking thru every detail on all of the what if scenarios?

The fact of the matter is that no team is going to give the Panthers anything worth a damn unless they know that Cam is healthy, nor will he start if he has any setbacks.

Let the man fuging recover before you make Cam face his future, holy fug.

If Cam is healthy and all-in, the team keeps him and now has the luxury of rebuilding while Cam gott dayym Newton is the QB. If he isn't, then the team saves $19M. This isn't difficult.

All of these talks about a trade: What do you think the going rate is on a former NFL MVP that changed the most important position in the sport? A 2nd rd? FOH. You don't trade Cam unless you get the farm AND the town gas station.

Albert Breer said two second rounders.

[jfra78]

20 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Bama Panther's earlier post in this thread is right, though. You can't think that way.

Football decisions have to be based on what they're going to do, not what they've done before. Rewarding someone with a contract because of what they did previously is how you get dumb contracts like Jake Delhomme's extension after the Cardinals disaster.

If we were gonna think that way now, why would we have let Greg Olsen go with one year left on his deal?

Letting Cam play the final year of his contract is not rewarding him on past performance.  No one knows if Cam can play at a high level this year, but he deserves to be given the chance.  

[LinvilleGorge]

32 minutes ago, PantherFanInPhilly said:

lol at this is who is chosen to moderate THE Panthers forum. Yikes.

Hey, at least I haven't thrown snowballs at Santa... yet.

[LinvilleGorge]

29 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

This is what’s going to happen:

panthers sh1t on Cam in an ugly divorce. Claim he isn’t healthy, and move on. 
 

cam is released and signs with another team. Cam leads said team to playoffs and wins comeback player of the year. Panthers win 2 games next season and Ruhle’s seat is hot. 

Honestly, it wouldn't shock me. 

Seems to me like this is the full on Tepper show and Hurney is still here pretty much solely to be his rubber stamp and fall guy if need be if it all blows up.

[Butterflyj30]

These folk seem to be cold blooded goodness

[Mr. Scot]

1 hour ago, jfra78 said:

Letting Cam play the final year of his contract is not rewarding him on past performance.  No one knows if Cam can play at a high level this year, but he deserves to be given the chance.  

Greg Olsen probably deserved better than to be unceremoniously released, but that's football.

Nobody "deserves" anything when it comes to football decisions. Believing somebody "deserves" to take up current cap space now because they contributed in prior years is Ron Rivera type "everybody deserves a happy ending" thinking. That's what gets you stupid contracts like what we gave Jake Delhomme in 2009.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

3 hours ago, JawnyBlaze said:

Of course that’s what he said.  Cam’s not gone unless his health doesn’t check out and those that have been salivating at the mouth to get a good ol boy at QB will try to extrapolate more from Teppers comments than that, but that’s all it is.  Teppers not going to commit to Cam until his health status has been made clear.  If Tepper has proven anything its that he means what he says, nothing more nothing less. 

What do you mean by good ol boy?

[Real1zOnly]

Watch out for Las Vegas. If they can't get Brady, they will need a QB to bring excitement to Vegas.

[steven8989]

1 hour ago, raleigh-panther said:

Yes and tepper’s happy ass will have an empty. Stadium if his team doesn’t produce.

It's look like that the last two years anyway. They say every game this it the 100th something straight sellout and half the stadium is empty. Don't think Tepper started that lol.