A failure to trade Christian McCaffrey will cost us Trevor or Fields

[bobowilson]

We've all seen what McCaffrey can do, he can break games open, and will win even the worst team in the NFL to a couple of wins.

You don't think if CMC was on the Bengals last year they eke out 2 extra wins?  There will be a few 200 yard CMC games that we unfortunately win if we don't trade him.

On the other hand, by the time Lawrence is in his 2nd season, CMC will be an old and broken down running back on a maximum salary.

So there's no reason to hang on to CMC.  He costs us draft position this year, and won't be in his prime by the time our new QB is ready.

The only reason to keep him at this point would be to sell tickets and merch.  So this is a test of how bad Tepper wants to win versus make money.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Just now, bobowilson said:

We've all seen what McCaffrey can do, he can break games open, and will win even the worst team in the NFL to a couple of wins.

You don't think if CMC was on the Bengals last year they eke out 2 extra wins?  There will be a few 200 yard CMC games that we unfortunately win if we don't trade him.

On the other hand, by the time Lawrence is in his 2nd season, CMC will be an old and broken down running back on a maximum salary.

So there's no reason to hang on to CMC.  He costs us draft position this year, and won't be in his prime by the time our new QB is ready.

The only reason to keep him at this point would be to sell tickets and merch.  So this is a test of how bad Tepper wants to win versus make money.

 

He'll be out of his prime at 24? Awful post. Not saying we won't trade him because we're going for 0-16, but trading the best RB in the NFL would further prove to me that Tepper doesn't want to win, doesn't want fans to come to the stadium and wants a new stadium -- elsewhere. Consider more than just your feelings that you hate tanking and will whine incessantly about us losing as you currently push for tanking. 

[hepcat]

Trading CMC would tank ticket sales. Only player on the roster left worth paying to see how that Cam is assuredly gone

[stbugs]

He’ll be old and broken down right after he turns 26? He’s still 23 right now. Might as well trade Moore. He’ll be a dinosaur as well since he’s only 1 year younger than CMC.

[Varking]

CMC with this roster will still net us a top 5 pick. Our defense is going to be worse this year. We don’t have Cam. It’s a wash of a season. 

[bobowilson]

1 minute ago, Carl Spackler said:

He'll be out of his prime at 24? 

He was born on June 7, 1996

We draft Lawrence in the summer of 2021, by the time he's in his second season, CMC is 26 years old (unless you think we're winning a Super Bowl with with a rookie QB).

Yes a 26 year old RB is very much past his prime in the modern NFL.

 

[bobowilson]

1 minute ago, Varking said:

CMC with this roster will still net us a top 5 pick. Our defense is going to be worse this year. We don’t have Cam. It’s a wash of a season. 

Top 5 pick isn't good enough.

We need a top 2 pick, and probably top 1 (Fields is risky).

 

[LinvilleGorge]

If you part with Cam, Luke (not our choice), Greg, and CMC all in the same off-season you don't just have to rebuild a team from scratch, you have to rebuild a fanbase from scratch.

[JARROD]

What is this obsession to tank for 2021...

that worked out horribly for the Colts. They had some playoff runs with Andrew but it did not result in a Super Bowl and he lost his desire to even play football.

its just stupid to tank for a future where the success of future draft picks is impossible to predict

[GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER]

1 minute ago, hepcat said:

Trading CMC would tank ticket sales. Only player on the roster left worth paying to see how that Cam is assuredly gone

it's 2020. people aren't going through the trouble of going to a game they know they're going to lose just because they have a thing for the running back. cash out on this running back while you still can. the alternative is having perhaps the highest paid running back in league history (lol) on what will still be a shitty team. won't be long until people look back at this moment and say "we really should have gotten value out of our running back while we could"

[Carl Spackler]

OK this fool is muted

[bobowilson]

2 minutes ago, stbugs said:

He’ll be old and broken down right after he turns 26? He’s still 23 right now. Might as well trade Moore. He’ll be a dinosaur as well since he’s only 1 year younger than CMC.

Wide receivers can play well into their 30s.

Running backs fall off a cliff in their mid 20s.

It's just a statistical fact, with a few very rare outliers.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Just now, GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER said:

it's 2020. people aren't going through the trouble of going to a game they know they're going to lose just because they have a thing for the running back. 

They sure were in 2019. In December home games, probably 80 percent of all Panthers fans there were wearing 22 jerseys or shirts.

[thefuzz]

Trading CMC and Burns is the smartest, shrewdest, move to make right now, however it won't happen.