Who should we draft with the #1 pick?

[Sam Mills Fan]

Choose wisely.

[PantherFanForLife]

NO!

[carolinashawn]

I say AJ Green. We need offensive playmakers and he is going to be a stud in the NFL.

[Evil Hurney]

Choose your side and let the battle for middle earth begin!

[Ncstatefan]

Trade down. Draft Cam Newton and use the rest of the picks to build a sold team around him.

[Panthers128]

Trade down and don't draft Cam Newton.

[CarolinaCatBrigade]

I say AJ Green. We need offensive playmakers and he is going to be a stud in the NFL.

I agree with you to a point. If Clausen can't hit a wide open David Gettis (or any WR for that matte) how is the situation going to change with a wide open AJ Green? However I do think trading down and grabbing AJ green is the way to go. We need someone to replace Smith in the future. And the fact that no other QB in the draft is 'guaranteed' to be an improvement over Clausen (not a Clausen fan btw). Luck was a guaranteed improvement. IMHO I think Clausen will improve next season, he will have a healthy O-Line, great running game, some good receivers with great potential coming along with him. And if Smith gets traded, we almost certainly have to grab AJ Green.

[hepcat]

AJ Green is best player available. We could trade Steve Smith for pick(s) after that...just as good as trading down?

[Grammer]

AJ green to replace steve smith and have a decent wr corp for andrew luck to have the season after next.

i can still dream, cant i?

[PantherFanForLife]

I agree with you to a point. If Clausen can't hit a wide open David Gettis (or any WR for that matte) how is the situation going to change with a wide open AJ Green? However I do think trading down and grabbing AJ green is the way to go. We need someone to replace Smith in the future. And the fact that no other QB in the draft is 'guaranteed' to be an improvement over Clausen (not a Clausen fan btw). Luck was a guaranteed improvement. IMHO I think Clausen will improve next season, he will have a healthy O-Line, great running game, some good receivers with great potential coming along with him. And if Smith gets traded, we almost certainly have to grab AJ Green.

My bet is that Clausen probably won't be the one throwing?

[Snake]

Holy fug people who the hell is going to throw to Green????

Cam Newton or trade down for QB but it has to be QB....

[J-STEW]

Here is a tidbit from JR, making me think we are going to try to surround Clausen with as many weapons as possible (as I am sure everyone has read from multiple sources, there are a lot of people in the Panthers organization who are behind Clausen).

http://ttomlinson.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-talk-with-jerry-richardson.html

"He’s planning to change the Panthers’ philosophy. For years the team leaned on a tough defense. But now he says the NFL is so offense-oriented that offensive coordinators and quarterback coaches are nearly as important as head coaches. Richardson said the Panthers will hire a new head coach first, but then go hard at offensive assistants. And no matter the coaches, he says the Panthers are going to open up."

“The NFL has changed, in the last five years, dramatically,” he said. “We would be foolish not to stay in sync with that… We didn’t score enough points. First thing, they (fans) want us to win. But after that, they want us to score points and they want excitement.”

[Snake]

Clausen is not the answer. He may be a game manager in a few years but he has a world to work on.

[Cat'sGrowl]

Holy f**k people who the hell is going to throw to Green????

Cam Newton or trade down for QB but it has to be QB....

There you go thinking the only way to get a QB is to draft one..