Mitchell Trubisky is the best play

[electro's horse]

Mitchell "titty kisser" Trubisky is the best play for the Carolina Panthers in 2022. It is not a perfect situation, but you play the cards you're dealt. 

Situation

- Panthers do not have a quarterback and conservatively have 2 pieces of an offensive line. For where the team is and what the modern NFL is like, nothing else really matters unfortunately.

- It does not matter what the Panthers gave up for Sam Darnold or what they're paying him. He is the definition of a sunk cost, and there's no point dwelling on it. What's done is done. He cannot go into another season as a starter. He is toast. 

- The Panthers do not have a lot of draft picks. They have one coveted first rounder that they need to either A.) land an O Line starter with or B.) use to trade for more picks. Drafting a QB does not help them this year (unless they manage to draft Herbert) and sticks the presumptive next coaching staff a player they might want nothing to do with. 

Why Mitch

- He does not cost any draft picks. They can just sign him. This lets them address the offensive line.

- Money doesn't matter. I know this is a controversial statement, but they can manage to overpay him because as long as David Tepper can drop those signing bonuses up front anything is possible. 

- Local kid. Played at UNC. Fan base would eat it up. Tepper would love the local angle. Buys goodwill. 

- Was in a rough situation in Chicago. Final season stats there were not that bad, far better than anything Darnold had done. Has spent a year in Buffalo under a coaching staff that turned a similar big armed idiot into an MVP candidate. 

- Loves to kiss titties. 

If it works

- All is well. You have a big armed local kid playing in what should be a weak division that squeaks the panthers into the playoffs, probably loses in the first round, lets the panthers restock the draft pick cabinet, gets darnold off the books, can renegotiate his contract, everyone looks like a genius. 

If it doesn't work

- As long as you structured his contract so he's easy to cut after two years, who cares. Fire everyone, hopefully you solidified the o line, bring in a new staff, move on from there. 

 

[hepcat]

Could have signed him last year so probably not going to happen 

[rayzor]

Not a trubisky fan, but agreed with the plan. Get a cheap vet FA as QB and build that OL, getting it ready for a real coach to put together a team.

[CmC2k]

If I was forced to sign a QB in free agency I'd much rather have Marcus Mariota than Mitch. Ultimately any sign or trade that isn't for Watson is just a waste of time and resources. Take either the safe option in Pickett or gamble with the upside of Willis in the draft.

Edited February 23, 2022 by CmC2k

[ncstatekwi]

[Panthera onca]

Lol, hard pass on Mitchell.

 

 

[Growl]

It’s just signing bridgewater all over again; the draft has little to do with “this year.”

[davos]

First and foremost, we’re going to keep swinging and missing on the better QBs. This would happen after that all fails.  My guess is we’ll be staring at either signing a freshly released Wentz or drafting Pickett/Willis. Hell, I’d take a Nick Mullens and CJ Beathard over Mitch.

[Newbie]

8 minutes ago, Growl said:

It’s just signing bridgewater all over again; the draft has little to do with “this year.”

Remember, it’s a 7 year plan. 

[Ricky Spanish]

29 minutes ago, CmC2k said:

If I was forced to sign a QB in free agency I'd much rather have Marcus Mariota than Mitch. Ultimately any sign or trade that isn't for Watson is just a waste of time and resources. Take either the safe option in Pickett or gamble with the upside of Willis in the draft.

I consider Mariota a Tier above Trubisky. Trubisky is in the "Low expectations very unlikely to work out but still better than what we have" Tier and Mariota is in the "Good enough to be just good enough but not good enough to carry a team and win in the playoffs" Tier or "QB Purgatory" as it is known.

 

[LinvilleGorge]

He's not coming here. He's already endured a dumpster fire in Chicago under Nagy. That's why he jumped on the opportunity to go to Buffalo as a clear backup without shopping for a potential situation to compete for a starting job. He was looking for a reset in a stable situation. He's not going to jump right back into a dumpster fire. I honestly think he'd resign in Buffalo as the backup before he'd come here to compete for the starting job. He knows he almost certainly only has one more opportunity to legit compete for a starting job. He's not going to waste that on a situation like ours where failure is virtually guaranteed.

Sorry, that's just the sad reality.

[frankw]

He should have been our offseason target over Sam Darnold but it's too late for another reclamation project now. Just draft one and if it doesn't work out swing again next year.

[LinvilleGorge]

8 minutes ago, frankw said:

He should have been our offseason target over Sam Darnold but it's too late for another reclamation project now. Just draft one and if it doesn't work out swing again next year.

Yep. When we were busy getting wrecked at the negotiating table by the Jets, we should've been either signing Trubisky or trading much less to Jacksonville for Minshew. Better QBs at much better prices. But no... let's trade real assets for the statistically worst starting QB in the NFL in recent memory and then pick up his option to boot!

That's "the process" at work. 1000%

 

 

[scratched]

This Is Mariotas Injury History...no thanks

Date	League	Injury	Details
Jan 12, 2015	Non-NFL	Shoulder A/C Joint Sprain	Mariota sprained his right shoulder in the National Championship game.
Oct 18, 2015	NFL	Knee MCL Sprain Grade 2	Mariota was rolled up on in Week 6 against the Dolphins and sprained his MCL. He missed the next two games.
Dec 20, 2015	NFL	Knee MCL Sprain Grade 2	Mariota sprained his right MCL and missed the final two games.
Dec 24, 2016	NFL	Leg Fibula Fracture	In Week 16, Mariota suffered a broken fibula against the Jags.
Oct 1, 2017	NFL	Thigh Hamstring Sprain/Pull Unspecified Grade 1	Mariota missed only 1 game.
Dec 22, 2018	NFL	Cervical Neck Stinger	Mariota missed the season finale.
Sep 9, 2018	NFL	Arm Elbow Sprain	Mariota missed 1 game with a pinched nerve.
Nov 18, 2018	NFL	Cervical Neck Stinger	Mariota missed 1 half of play but returned the following week vs. Houston.
Aug 27, 2020	NFL	Chest Pectoral Strain Grade 2	Mariota was placed on injured reserve as he was dealing with a strained pectoral during the training camp. He missed the first five games of 2020 season.
Aug 12, 2021	NFL	Leg Quad Strain	Mariota missed preseason games because of a quad injury
Sep 13, 2021	NFL	Leg Quad Strain	Mariota aggravated a strained quadriceps during the Week 1 win over the Ravens. He was placed on IR and missed five games.