No more Watson threads. Use this one or one of the other 20 existing ones.

[Smittymoose]

1 minute ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

And you trust Tepper to gain and keep his trust?  Oh my.

lol so it comes back to Tepper butthurt, got it

[BlitzMonster]

my only hope is that Rhules incompetence as a head coach and general bone-headedness turns off Watson

[NCTHFL0567]

2 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

How are you missing the connection here?  We are trading away our most valuable picks for 3 seasons.  Watson will count 40 million against the cap.  We'll have to wait a couple years for other cap hits to roll off.  How exactly is that going to happen?

I meant after the first round picks are traded. Clearly. I thought that was implied? 

[PNW_PantherMan]

Just now, Smittymoose said:

lol so it comes back to Tepper butthurt, got it

Nobody's butthurt.  You're just being unrealistic.  You really think the same thing couldn't happen here that happened in Houston?  He could just get mad and want to play elsewhere you know?  You think he's going to wait 3-5 years for us to build a team around him?  Lol.

[NCTHFL0567]

We're still going to have draft picks after the first rounders are traded. I mean, come on guys. We still will have to Draft well. 

[TheCasillas]

id really love to hear the behind the scenes conversations that are happening during all of this. Like Cal, Bob, and Janice have to have met with Tepper many times over the year. Although Caserio is leading this deal, and working with many FOs... the directive will come from the top.

[Shocker]

3 minutes ago, BlitzMonster said:

Ian Rapoport reporting the Panthers & Saints have definitely made offers for Watson.  Maybe other teams as well.  That includes the 3 first round draft picks as well as some young players.  

Watson will meet with the teams and then decide if he wants to waive his NTC.  

On Reddit Houston fans are already savoring the 3 Carolina draft choices (which will be high picks) and looking over the young talent we have on defense for who to take.   It's absolutely sickening (and soul crushing) for Panther fans.

Rapoport on Twitter

 

It is but we haven’t made the move yet.  Holding out hope he goes somewhere else.  Someone on ESPN said we have inquired about Trubisky.  Get the OT at six and bring in Mitch to bridge us to next year and spend some serious capital then to move up and get our guy

[TLGPanthersFan]

Just now, NCTHFL0567 said:

We're still going to have draft picks after the first rounders are traded. I mean, come on guys. We still will have to Draft well. 

Plus won’t we have quite a bit of cap space in the coming seasons. With Watson Panthers could actually be a place players want to come. 
Just trying to think of some positives. 

[Smittymoose]

Just now, PNW_PantherMan said:

Nobody's butthurt.  You're just being unrealistic.  You really think the same thing couldn't happen here that happened in Houston?  He could just get mad and want to play elsewhere you know?  You think he's going to wait 3-5 years for us to build a team around him?  Lol.

It's absolutely butt-hurt. You're assuming on the front-end that he shouldn't trust Tepper. What are your specific reasons for this? Because you're mad he hired Rhule and mad he didn't fire him? Therefore, no one should trust him?

It's not going to take 3-5 years to build around him, get real. The Panthers with just an average QB last year are a 9-10 win team. I wonder if every team has as many Chicken Little fans as the Panthers?  

[frankw]

5 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

How are you missing the connection here?  We are trading away our most valuable picks for 3 seasons.  Watson will count 40 million against the cap.  We'll have to wait a couple years for other cap hits to roll off.  How exactly is that going to happen?

You cannot reason with some of these delusions. People making plans and assumptions before anything has happened are in for a rude awakening and they'll be one of the first to dissappear if things don't go as they assume.

[t96]

If this happens please just don't include Chinn, Burns or Horn in the trade. Brown or McCaffrey sure.

[45catfan]

2 hours ago, BurnNChinn said:

Indy is not involved

They should be.  But hey, maybe some organizations don't want the stink of Watson hanging over their franchise.  Must be refreshing to have standards. 

[PNW_PantherMan]

Just now, Smittymoose said:

It's absolutely butt-hurt. You're assuming on the front-end that he shouldn't trust Tepper. What are your specific reasons for this? Because you're mad he hired Rhule and mad he didn't fire him? Therefore, no one should trust him?

It's not going to take 3-5 years to build around him, get real. The Panthers with just an average QB last year are a 9-10 win team. I wonder if every team has as many Chicken Little fans as the Panthers?  

You're taking this way too personally.  We had an average QB in 2020 and we won 5 games though.

[Smittymoose]

1 minute ago, Shocker said:

It is but we haven’t made the move yet.  Holding out hope he goes somewhere else.  Someone on ESPN said we have inquired about Trubisky.  Get the OT at six and bring in Mitch to bridge us to next year and spend some serious capital then to move up and get our guy

So, trade multiple firsts to move up and acquire a rookie QB who may not be any good at all instead of trading multiple firsts to acquire a surefire top 5-7 QB in the league who is 26 years old?

Got it.