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ARTICLE: Panthers want to make a run at Deshaun Watson...clearing cap space to do so

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10 minutes ago, Tbe said:

Coaches and GMs have no chance without a top QB. 

You can’t win without one and you don’t keep your job if you don’t win.

While I agree you need to have a top QB, you still need to have the pieces around him. Our OL and LB units are well below average, and the secondary is straight up trash. 

Watson is also not our ONLY option. You can still draft a QB while developing the team around him or get a different QB at a fair deal (what's the rush - the GM and coach are both new). The Texans will require too much in return for Watson. You never take a bad deal for any purchase in life! 

 

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2 minutes ago, chknwing said:

Am I the only one that thinks Watson is overrated.

I don't know. But, if you look at what he did last season with Will Fuller and basically nobody, it gets your mouth to watering at what he could do with more weapons.

 

FWIW, I doubt that the cap clearing was all about Watson. We have to get some new pieces in here, especially on the O-line (LB, safety, TE...).

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2 minutes ago, USC/panthers_11 said:

While I agree you need to have a top QB, you still need to have the pieces around him. Our OL and LB units are well below average, and the secondary is straight up trash. 

Watson is also not our ONLY option. You can still draft a QB while developing the team around him or get a different QB at a fair deal (what's the rush - the GM and coach are both new). The Texans will require too much in return for Watson. You never take a bad deal for any purchase in life! 

 

It’s a chicken or the egg situation in some respects for sure, but Deshaun is known and the draft is a game of chance. 

Look at the last 10 years of 1st round QBs. The odds are not on our side.

I would love to draft a stud QB and have all the draft capital to build around him, but those odds aren’t good.

Its going to be a big challenge either way.

Personally, I think our odds of landing Watson are low.

The Jets can guarantee Houston the second best QB in this years draft. 

That alone pretty much seals it for them. 

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15 minutes ago, top dawg said:

I don't know. But, if you look at what he did last season with Will Fuller and basically nobody, it gets your mouth to watering at what he could do with more weapons.

 

FWIW, I doubt that the cap clearing was all about Watson. We have to get some new pieces in here, especially on the O-line (LB, safety, TE...).

What, winning 4 games?

'Cos if you think we're surrounding him with significantly more talent than the Texans did with no first round pick for 3 years and no Chinn / Brown / Burns, think again.

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9 minutes ago, Tbe said:

It’s a chicken or the egg situation in some respects for sure, but Deshaun is known and the draft is a game of chance. 

Look at the last 10 years of 1st round QBs. The odds are not on our side.

I would love to draft a stud QB and have all the draft capital to build around him, but those odds aren’t good.

Its going to be a big challenge either way.

Personally, I think our odds of landing Watson are low.

The Jets can guarantee Houston the second best QB in this years draft. 

That alone pretty much seals it for them. 

NY being the market it is in and of itself is enough reason for Watson to choose them over us.  The endorsement deals alone....

I think the cost is too high as it's been reported.

 

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41 minutes ago, KatsAzz said:

If the Panthers go for broke by tying up their whole future for one player, DeShawn Watson, they had better hope he remains healthy or the team may take many years to recover.

I don’t really care at least we are trying something new. Something we haven’t tried since this team’s existence. Let’s sit back and enjoy it for once

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37 minutes ago, KatsAzz said:

If the Panthers go for broke by tying up their whole future for one player, DeShawn Watson, they had better hope he remains healthy or the team may take many years to recover.

That is it really. What if we give up Burns, Chinn and 3 first rounders for Watson and then he gets hurt behind our porous line. Then we have a crappy offense and an even crappier defense and no first rounders for years. If the system is so great, then why do you need Watson to run it at the expense of decimating your defense?  And can a rookie come in and run the system by moving up in the draft giving up far less in compensation.

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2 minutes ago, Fox007 said:

Hai Gaiz
 

I'm overrated
 

4823 yards 33 TDs  7 Int      

444 yards rushing 3 TDs

On a crumbling organization...eye'll dew butter nExt tyme

4 real those are Cam MVP year numbers and with Will Fuller as his best weapon and bill o brian as HC.

Im not getting my hopes up, i learned better with this organization, but deshaun is worth 2-3 first rounders and cmc

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