Prime Cam plugged into this roster what happens?

[Ricky Prickles]

Someone give me a scenario of what they think this team would look like if we could go back in time and last season we drafted rookie Cam Newton out of Auburn instead of Bryce. This team is not without talent on offense at all. Some of our receivers last week would have looked like world beaters. The Taints would have been so flustered when Cam passed and ran all over their asses they would have been backpedaling instead of of coming forward at us the whole game is my belief. Give me this exact team with Cam and all his fire and confidence and attitude and it would be infectious. We would see fire from many more guys and willing to bet that defense would have even looked better (maybe not great) being more rested.

[WarHeel]

10-7 tops 

Most likely 6-11 with a few close games where Cam forces some end zone tuddys but we still aren’t competitive enough to make a playoff push. 

[SteveSmithTD89]

I actually had the Seahwaks game from 2015 pop up in my recommended on YouTube yesterday and went down a rabbit hole reliving the good ole days. 

Offensively, the roster now is better. 

Cam > Bryce

Stew > Chuba 

Ginn < Diontae 

Cotch < Thielen 

Philly < XL 

Olsen > Sanders 

OL = OL (Oher, Kalil only obvious upgrades but Moton >>>>>> Remmers) 

Jury is still out on Canales, it's been one game, but I have a hard time believing the offensive playcalling would ever be as stale and conservative as it was under Ron/Shula. 

All in all, with 2015 Cam on this Roster we're putting up points, and a lot of them. 

Defensively though, yikes... I don't known that a single person on this defense would start over that 2015 team except maybe Brown over Star, Woods over Harper and Horn over Peanut and those last 2 I'm not 100% on. 

All in all it probably looks a lot like Cams rookie season. 28+ points a game, setting the world on fire Offensively and breaking records but we can't stop a nose bleed on the other end and lose a bunch of close games 35-31. 

I'd still watch though and most importantly I'd have hope for the future. 

 

Edited September 14, 2024 by SteveSmithTD89

[kungfoodude]

Probably a 7-9 wins.

Our defense we far better in that time period. It's not even a comparison now.

[SOJA]

43 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Probably a 7-9 wins.

Our defense we far better in that time period. It's not even a comparison now.

this is the correct answer

[AggieLean]

We’d be competitive; in on every game. 7-9 wins. Defense wouldn’t be able to stop a nose bleed. There’d probably be a game in there where Cam is off with accuracy, and with the defense not stopping anyone, it would be a blowout. So, yea, one blowout, but he’d get us to 7-9 wins. 
 

With Bryce, we’ll win 0-1 game this year, and that one potential win won’t be because of Bryce. 

[Daddy_Uncle]

Prime Cam had Prime Luke on defense

[KaseKlosed]

38 minutes ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

Prime Cam had Prime Luke on defense

That wasn't the question sir 

[strato]

The team becomes much more fun to watch, anything else is gravy. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Our D gave up 47 to a likely mediocre offense. Put prime Cam on this team and we're still bad. It's be like his rookie year where we put up enough points to compete but the D would consistently find a way to give up more.

[ForJimmy]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Our D gave up 47 to a likely mediocre offense. Put prime Cam on this team and we're still bad. It's be like his rookie year where we put up enough points to compete but the D would consistently find a way to give up more.

This. 

[LinvilleGorge]

14 minutes ago, strato said:

The team becomes much more fun to watch, anything else is gravy. 

This. If we had a promising young QB everyone would be frustrated about the abysmal D but the overall hope for the future would be completely different. Again, just like Cam's rookie year.

[strato]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This. If we had a promising young QB everyone would be frustrated about the abysmal D but the overall hope for the future would be completely different. Again, just like Cam's rookie year.

If he were just simply dropped in.

If he had been on the team the investment in offense would not have to have been so over the top. We'd have better on defense. 

The loading up the offense just went over and above. Hell when I was posting the tally of offense vs defense drafting, it didn't hit me upside the head until I saw it on the field.

As far as the defense, they have had very little time as a unit, pieces in and out every day almost. They will get better with reps together but with Derrrick out, that's tough. 

[Waldo]

The D could get a chance to grow with a Cam at QB. Not sure this one is going to do more than stamina training this year.