BY or CJ

[mrcompletely11]

13 minutes ago, rodeo said:

One thing I hope the whole BY and CJ thing leads to is the return of drafting QBs and letting them sit and learn a couple years as back-ups. Cam and that era of super rookie changed the game and we can't expect everybody coming in to be NFL ready. I think keeping Darnold and drafting BY or CJ to sit behind him til 2026 would have had monumentally better results.

Front offices fold to media pressure and QB controversies now. Nobody is will to do what the Packers did with Rogers and just say fug you were starting Favre until he's ready to commit full time to welfare fraud.

100%

[SmokinwithWilly]

10 minutes ago, rodeo said:

One thing I hope the whole BY and CJ thing leads to is the return of drafting QBs and letting them sit and learn a couple years as back-ups. Cam and that era of super rookie changed the game and we can't expect everybody coming in to be NFL ready. I think keeping Darnold and drafting BY or CJ to sit behind him til 2026 would have had monumentally better results.

Front offices fold to media pressure and QB controversies now. Nobody is will to do what the Packers did with Rogers and just say fug you were starting Favre until he's ready to commit full time to welfare fraud.

It's only going to get worse with NIL and transfers. These QBs aren't NFL ready and they need to sit. I think if we see them sitting the first year or 2 after being drafted, it will change the QB NIL situation as well. 

[frankw]

This thread has been on the first page for nearly an entire week now and simultaneously you've got folks bumping years old Darnold threads and swearing it isn't about Bryce lol.

[Hoenheim]

On 1/19/2026 at 12:08 PM, LinvilleGorge said:

Hindsight being 20/20, we just went all in on the wrong QB class. We would've been far better off investing all those assets we spent elsewhere.

This really should be the ultimate conclusion from all of this.

Waiting one more year and basically you couldn't miss on a QB from the options of Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake May, Bo Nix. Maybe McCarthy and Penix aren't that great but neither of them have gotten much playtime generally speaking due to injury. 

The 24 QB draft class could be the best one since 1983 with Elway, Marino, and Kelley. 

[strato]

That trade up was the stupidest, most impatient thing the Panthers could have done. Neither one of those players was ever going to be worth that kind of investment. 

I’m not sure any player is.

Icing on the cake was.. you draft a QB and trade away the only real Wr weapon you had. It was as opposite of smart as there ever could be. fuging idiots.

And to cement the fact that they are idiots, they went with a weak armed undeveloped physical outlier, of historical proportions. 

 

 

Edited 30 minutes ago by strato