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Panthers interested in Jason Campbell


Kevin Greene

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Unlike other player positions, it seems to me that there is consistently a high demand in the league at all times for reasonably competent quarterbacks.

In my mind, that means that even though Bulger and Campbell are both competing with each other to land a roster spot, their values will not drop. It seems to me that Carolina is of the mindset this year, that if they just wait long enough, many released free agents will become desperate, and we will be able to pick them up after the draft at a bargain.

This of course gives us all huge anxiety while it appears that our season is destined to fail, but it won't.

My point is this: I think the Carolina FO is right.....as long as we aren't talking about the quarterback position. With regards to Campbell, Bulger, or any other veteran QB, I think the wait-and-see strategy will fail, because the market interest in that position never subsides.

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Campbell's value is relative to our current QB situation.

He is probably considered superior in athletic ability, durability, NFL experience, and overall intelligence to Josh McCown. Those are qualifications enough to earn him a roster spot, albeit not to get paid what he was as a starting Redskin. I don't know enough about McCown's charisma or leadership ability to know if that dilutes Campbell's attraction some, but I don't get the feeling that charisma is McCown's forte.

Campbell would probably be worth a 4/5/6 rounder to the Panthers, However, to a lesser team Campbell will be considered worth more than that, and I think we have to consider his value elsewhere.

Remember now, we already have a youngster at the helm. We aren't looking for a rookie to back him up, we are looking for a veteran. None of this draft's QB's are ready to start in the NFL.

Any rookie we'd sign would be an answer in 2011/12. Since our organization hasn't proven to be good at developing QB's, I don't think the Panthers will draft a QB at all, and if I'm right then we are looking at free agents, and possibly signing more than one.

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Any rookie we'd sign would be a long-term answer. Since our organization hasn't proven to be good at developing QB's, I don't think the Panthers will draft a QB at all, and if I'm right then we are looking at free agents.

I do agree with you here.

I think we'll re-sign McCown, but I think the fact we haven't yet points to the chance we still might draft a quarterback. I guess we could still have Moore, McCown, a rookie from the draft, and then throw Cantwell on the practice squad.

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