At what point will you start rooting for us to lose for Lawrence?

[t96]

For me as long as we are mathematically alive in the playoff race I will root for Panthers wins.

But I think as soon as we hit that point of no return that the best thing for this franchise would be to get a generational talent in Trevor "Sunshine" Lawrence, and I may actually actively root for us to get the 1st overall pick. I did that later in the year in 2010 for Cam, but no other season, even in recent years with Rivera when we were mathematically eliminated later in the year. I think this will be another 2010 for me though, unless we see some wins in the next month or so (seems unlikely with this D and sloppy O). So at what point will you mainly be thinking of the draft? 0-5? 1-7? Or are you already actively rooting for us to lose for 1st overall?

Tank for Trevor.

Suck for Sunshine.

Lose for Lawrence. 

 

[Jeremy Igo]

I don't. If it happens it happens. And if it does, it has no guarantee the Panthers will win a Superbowl. What last #1 overall pick won a superbowl with the team that drafted him? 

 

A better outcome from losing would be Hurney getting fired. That may have more of an impact on long term success. 

[hepcat]

As soon as I saw how weak Bridgewater’s arm was in the first game

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

Last Sunday at 1pm

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

Down 21-0 our defense is horrible, TB is low end mediocre at best, Why root for the playoffs when everyone here knows this team can't win it all.  

[Moo Daeng]

I will never do that. Rooting behind a tv has no affect 

[GoPanthers123]

The only team I root to lose is NO Saints.  That’s it. 

[JARROD]

Well at least we know Snow or Brady aren’t  getting poached by another team this year....

[Waldo]

We don't have to root against them. Just tune in and enjoy it happing anyways as we watch this young squad (coaches included) figure out who they are.

[Wanderlai]

When Cam was let go, When Luke retired....The rebuild is inevitable. May as well get good draft position to load back up. Winning 3-5 games only makes the rebuild longer imo. 

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Never, but only because I don't think he's going to be the next big thing.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

4 minutes ago, Wanderlai said:

When Cam was let go, When Luke retired....The rebuild is inevitable. May as well get good draft position to load back up. Winning 3-5 games only makes the rebuild longer imo. 

Long term fandom isn't about instant gratification.

[Varking]

We don’t have to root for it. It’s happening. 

[t96]

15 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

A better outcome from losing would be Hurney getting fired.

I think 99% of people here will agree with that. The two are not mutually exclusive.

 

I gotta ask though... if we are 1-13 going into week 16 vs. Washington and they are 1-13 as well and no other team could possibly get Lawrence (next worst team has 3 wins at that point) would you really still be rooting for us to win that game? I would 100% root for his to lose and to get Lawrence in that situation.