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The handling of the Sam Darnold situation is one of the worst decisions in franchise history.

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1) Trade for Sam Darnold giving up a 2nd, 4th, and 6th round pick. Darnold was the worst starting QB in the NFL in his first 3 seasons. 

2) Pick up his $19m 5th year option before he played a down for the team. Again, the Panthers guaranteed Darnold $19m before he even put on a Panthers uniform. 

3) Passed on Mac Jones and Justin Fields in the draft. Did not sign a veteran FA to be a backup or possible starter. Zero backup plan in the likely case Darnold was a failure. Instead, they drafted a cornerback, a luxury position for a team in search of a franchise QB, and allowed Matt Rhule’s friend PJ Walker to be the unqualified backup. 

4) Continue to play Sam Darnold late in the season despite the fact he is incapable of completing a pass beyond the line of scrimmage, and Panthers legend Cam Newton probably will not be on the team after this season. 

I just can’t see how you can keep the people in charge after this. You can’t trust them to make a sound decision at the QB position. 

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Could have had Minshew for a fourth. Could have had any number of rookies, including Davis Mills who is on an impossibly bad Texans team and looks better than Sam ever has. Could have played Sam in the preseason more, realized we were f'd and gotten a veteran in way earlier. They did literally everything wrong.

And the owner is sitting back and saying 'let's roll it back next year.'

There's been like 5 or 6 good years in franchise history, which sucks, but I've never felt like we were the worst run team in the NFL until this year. Not when being coached by the ghost of 49ers past, not when Pickles was putting up 3 points a game, it took being swindled by a used Pinto salesman masquerading as a head coach to hit rock bottom.

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7 minutes ago, FugginPoo said:

They need to explain the 5th year option logic

They 100% believed the Jets mismanaged him and that Sam could be the future QB here going forward. You can’t fix talent evaluators that are that screwed up in the head. They will never admit they fuged up. 

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13 minutes ago, FugginPoo said:

They need to explain the 5th year option logic

As someone that was weary of the move but could see the intention, even this part made zero sense to me. In retrospect, reeks of sheer overconfidence by closing a way out in case things turn south.

I will say giving Delhomme a contract extension when his arm was clearly shot was even worse.

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