A case for Tyler Thigpen

[Catdaddy]

We got Teal, we have done Coastal one favor already by picking up a player in a lower division who isn't s#@$!

[Henne Given Sunday]

I'd prefer not to have a QB with no arm strength who can't take a snap under center or read a defense.

18 touchdowns as a rookie on a poo team......ya hes terrible.

[panthers55]

Just like we don't need a retread coach, we don't need someone else's throwaway at quarterback. If you can't get a true starter, then draft a guy who has starter potential. Most backups are backups for a reason. Certainly not someone to build a franchise around.

[4dabirds]

I read this article earlier in the year and it pretty much made me want him as the Panthers next QB:

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/08/27/a-case-for-tyler-thigpen/

some very interesting points in there.

Are you the same Cracka McNasty from Useless Junk, or is that where you lifted the cool name?

[Catdaddy]

He is where he needs to be, on a suck team going nowhere!

[Henne Given Sunday]

He is where he needs to be, on a suck team going nowhere!

haha you mean a building team with a good head coach a good front office and a young good quarterback?

but you wouldnt know what those things are....your a panthers fan right?

edit: no offense to my friends here....he started it

[jramsey4]

haha you mean a building team with a good head coach a good front office and a young good quarterback?

but you wouldnt know what those things are....your a panthers fan right?

edit: no offense to my friends here....he started it

None taken a lot of posters here are idiots. I actually think the dolphins are in better shape then us at the time. But we are one good QB away from greatness.

[MurkN]

Just like we don't need a retread coach, we don't need someone else's throwaway at quarterback. If you can't get a true starter, then draft a guy who has starter potential. Most backups are backups for a reason. Certainly not someone to build a franchise around.

Good thing you weren't a coach during our Superbowl year when we decided to give a shot to someone elses throwaway quarterback.

[jramsey4]

Good thing you weren't a coach during our Superbowl year when we decided to give a shot to someone elses throwaway quarterback.

Or a certain Patriots HC taking a flier on a guy who had never even started in college. That move far and away is the biggest one in the history of the game IMO (but it was just luck anyone that says otherwise is a fool). Or a certain Rams coach who took a guy that was cut by numerous teams that won a MVP and a SB. Although it is far easier to draft a franchise QB in the 1st it is not the only way.

[Henne Given Sunday]

None taken a lot of posters here are idiots. I actually think the dolphins are in better shape then us at the time. But we are one good QB away from greatness.

ya the panthers and dolphins are in scary similar situations. both a few pieces away from a great team. both can compete at this stage with anyone in the league......so close. soooo close.

[jramsey4]

ya the panthers and dolphins are in scary similar situations. both a few pieces away from a great team. both can compete at this stage with anyone in the league......so close. soooo close.

And yet so far. The Panthers motto.

[panthers55]

Good thing you weren't a coach during our Superbowl year when we decided to give a shot to someone elses throwaway quarterback.

Jake wasn't a throwaway he was a never was. Big difference. Thigpen has had a chance to start 14 games and he sucked. He is like McCown who is another backup and not a starter. A lot like Weinke for us in 2001, another career backup do nothing. Jake was like Romo when he came in. A multi year backup who never got to start and came in and did good. Actually Jake started 2 games in 5 years with New Orleans but the point is the same. Neither of them looked back.

[Catdaddy]

haha you mean a building team with a good head coach a good front office and a young good quarterback?

but you wouldnt know what those things are....your a panthers fan right?

edit: no offense to my friends here....he started it

With a front office who wants to sell the team, a GM who is only there cause he is a man of his word? Plus you are really a hokus pokus team, not a real team, cause your team doesn't have enough good position players to line up and win games without gimmicks. Go ahead and think you are better than West Virginia, never mind, y'all drafted their Qb to run that stuff! Just quit the NFL, and join the MAC, or WAC, then you'll go a little farther after december!

[panthers55]

Or a certain Patriots HC taking a flier on a guy who had never even started in college. That move far and away is the biggest one in the history of the game IMO (but it was just luck anyone that says otherwise is a fool). Or a certain Rams coach who took a guy that was cut by numerous teams that won a MVP and a SB. Although it is far easier to draft a franchise QB in the 1st it is not the only way.

Picking Tyler Thigpen who started 14 games in 2008 and sucked is not the same as a Patriots head coach who drafts Cassel in the seventh round and started him because Brady was injured. That was necessity. But seriously you think that was the biggest risk or gamble in the history of the NFL> Seriously??? And Warner had a good history in NFL Europe before he got here winning a title there as well.

Sure you don't need a first rounder to find a starter but what does any of what you said relate to Thigpen being a potential starter versus career third stringer on a decent team. He couldn't even unseat a rookie this year.