Just watch Sam's feet.

[Zod]

Video from Ellis here. All I want you to do is watch Sam's feet when the ball is snapped. 

That there is David Carr syndrome and is something that he will never overcome. Scared to death when there isn't a reason to be 

 

[Waldo]

This was known when he was still with the Jets. You know before we traded picks for him and gave him 19 mil next season. What a busted QB

[ladypanther]

When you take a QB who has been in a bad situation with a shitty Oline...and put him on a new team with the very same issues, the blame is not on Sam.

Tepper needs to fix this now...waiting another year is insane.

[electro's horse]

classic 9 step drop

[frankw]

[hepcat]

Sam was broken before he got here and the Panthers managed to make him worse. Burn it down, this ain’t working. 

Edited January 3, 2022 by hepcat

[Mr. Scot]

I still think he could potentially have been fixed here if a couple of conditions had been met:

1) a quality offensive line in place

2) a better coaching staff

Instead, we got a line and coaches that weren't any better than what he had with the Jets.

Even so, there were good results early on, and those were not an illusion.

They were a house of cards though. And it all fell apart in a heartbeat, which tells me that Darnold was too fragile to withstand any more.

He basically needed near perfect conditions for this project to work, and that clearly didn't exist here. What we had was pretty closely equivalent to performing complicated brain surgery in the middle of a battlefield.

So the question now becomes could another staff rebuild him?

Personally, I don't think so. Not into a starter anyway. It might conceivably be possible to coach him up to being a quality backup.

But again, this staff aint the ones to do that, or...well, anything

[firefox1234]

Imagine being Tepper knowing you’re paying this kid 19m next season.

[frankw]

I am exhausted with the "can we still fix him" takes. The Jets. The J-E-T-S cut bait and moved on. If we have to absorb the cap hit then just cut him and turn the page.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

No footwork to be found 

[NAS]

Yep, he was broken and Rhule was a Fool to think he could fix him.

[ThPantherFan]

20 minutes ago, ladypanther said:

When you take a QB who has been in a bad situation with a shitty Oline...and put him on a new team with the very same issues, the blame is not on Sam.

Tepper needs to fix this now...waiting another year is insane.

Thank you!  Sam is scared and so would anyother qb be behind this line.

[ThPantherFan]

31 minutes ago, Zod said:

Scared to death when there isn't a reason to be 

Pavlov's dog's come to mine.  You shock them enough they'll jump at anything.

[joemac]

48 minutes ago, Zod said:

Video from Ellis here. All I want you to do is watch Sam's feet when the ball is snapped. 

That there is David Carr syndrome and is something that he will never overcome. Scared to death when there isn't a reason to be 

 

He is truly just a broken, awful, scared QB.  Literally the worst supposed starting QB ive ever watched, and I have watched some real stinkers.  Jesus Christ, what have we done?