Article: Watson did not want the Panthers

[NanuqoftheNorth]

I understand when a team like the Rams goes all in and trades away multiple future draft picks because they are in win now mode.

Panthers giving away a boat load of picks and possibly up coming players for Watson with all his issues just seems like a quick way to ruin a franchise for half a decade or more.

[Khyber53]

Tepper, Fit and Rhule were ready to grab a guy with 22 unsettled lawsuits (weren't even worried about that), pay him another $10.5 million and be on the hook for $30+ million next year. And that guy has a history of not just sexual predation but of saying he'll sit at home rather than play for a coach/team he doesn't like.

What kind of fuging morons do that? Larry, Moe and Curly wouldn't come together and think that was a good decision!

We're stuck with Larry but Moe and Curly have got to go!

Edit to add: And let's not even talk about never having a decent draft pick for two or more years!

Edited December 17, 2021 by Khyber53

[NanuqoftheNorth]

If this is an example of what we're to expect from Rhule in the future, Tepper would do well to cut ties with Matt in the coming weeks.  No way Panthers can afford such a reckless individual to have the keys to the kingdom.  Rhule will ruin this franchise for years if he is retained for 2022.

[joemac]

1 hour ago, trueblade said:

We're going to have to draft a guy.

I'd truly commit to the rebuild this off-season, and sell off assets for 2023 draft picks, then draft OL. We'll win maybe four games in 2022, and then draft a QB in the 1st in the 23 draft.

 

Kenny Pickett come on down!  You're the next contestant on "Get your career destroyed behind the Carolina o-line"!

[joemac]

2 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

If this is an example of what we're to expect from Rhule in the future, Tepper would do well to cut ties with Matt in the coming weeks.  No way Panthers can afford such a reckless individual to have the keys to the kingdom.  Rhule will ruin this franchise for years if he is retained for 2022.

LOL you don't think Tepper was the one driving that train?

[NanuqoftheNorth]

6 minutes ago, joemac said:

LOL you don't think Tepper was the one driving that train?

Quite possibly Tepper is driving the train.  All the more reason why he needs a seasoned veteran coach/executive of the NFL to have his ear.  Someone that can talk Tepper down from the ledge.

Rhule is not that guy.

[WarHeel]

Didn’t want him either 

[ThPantherFan]

2 hours ago, usmcpanthers said:

Doesnt matter, he wont be playing next year.

As crazy as this league has become, I wouldn't bet on that.

[ThPantherFan]

2 hours ago, WarPanthers89 said:

“The Panthers would have traded for Watson without a civil settlement”

I couldn't believe that.  

[ThPantherFan]

2 hours ago, rayzor said:

lol we can't even get a sexual predator to want to come here.

That's low!  Just terribly low!  Not at you but the truth in your statement.

[uncfan888]

2 hours ago, trueblade said:

We're going to have to draft a guy.

I'd truly commit to the rebuild this off-season, and sell off assets for 2023 draft picks, then draft OL. We'll win maybe four games in 2022, and then draft a QB in the 1st in the 23 draft.

 

In other words, do what they should have already done. Now we're two years into a rebuild with a bum coach and no end in sight

[ThPantherFan]

2 hours ago, trueblade said:

We're going to have to draft a guy.

I'd truly commit to the rebuild this off-season, and sell off assets for 2023 draft picks, then draft OL. We'll win maybe four games in 2022, and then draft a QB in the 1st in the 23 draft.

 

Draft someone at QB? Hopefully there will be an answer elsewhere.  We've traded too many draft picks for the poo show we have now.  We need offensive line help.

[ThPantherFan]

2 hours ago, Waldo said:

but also WHEW!

You got that right.  Can you imagine?!!??

[Wanderlai]

I’m thinking he may still end up here.